Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 131

Stalactites, stalagmites and pillars form inside limestone caves from minerals left behind by water seeping underground. Rainwater with dissolved carbon dioxide dissolves limestone and hollows out caves; this is called karst topography.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed by silt deposited by the river and its tributaries, is a seat of the Vaishnava satras founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva, and has been constituted a district of Assam, the first river island district in the country.

A drought defined only by too little rain, badly spread over time and space, is a meteorological drought. Drought is usually classified by what runs short.

Anamudi, 2,695 metres, in the Anaimalai hills of Kerala, is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole of peninsular and south India, and it stands inside the Eravikulam National Park, the chief home of the Nilgiri tahr.

Odisha lies between about 17 and 22 degrees north, so it stays just south of the Tropic of Cancer, which is the reason it is the most common wrong choice in this question.

These are the three eastern rivers of the Indus system, and the treaty gives their waters to India for unrestricted use, which is why the Bhakra dam on the Sutlej, the Pong dam on the Beas and the Ranjit Sagar dam on the Ravi could be built.

Koppen was born in Russia and worked in Germany, and his training in plant science is the reason his classification uses natural vegetation as the index of climate and sets its boundaries where vegetation belts change.

The Jal Marg Vikas Project, taken up with assistance from the World Bank, deepens the channel of the Ganga between Haldia and Varanasi and builds multi-modal terminals, jetties and navigation aids so that larger vessels can sail through the year.

This narrow passage between Spain in Europe and Morocco in Africa is the only natural opening of the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Ocean, and it has carried the trade of three continents since antiquity.

The Ten Degree Channel runs roughly along the parallel of ten degrees north and separates Little Andaman in the south of the Andaman group from Car Nicobar in the north of the Nicobar group.

In 1988 the Planning Commission adopted a division of the country into fifteen agro-climatic zones so that crops, irrigation, credit and research could be planned for areas that are uniform in rainfall, temperature, soil and cropping pattern.

By origin, resources are either biotic, which come from living things, or abiotic, which come from non-living things. Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere and have life: plants, animals, fish, livestock and human beings.

A canyon is a deep valley whose sides fall in steep, step-like slopes. Both gorges and canyons are cut by rivers, mostly in the youthful stage.

Both rivers flow westward along faulted troughs, or rift valleys, that lie between the Vindhya and the Satpura ranges, and both empty into the Arabian Sea through estuaries instead of deltas.

A rapid rush of snow and ice down a steep mountain slope, dangerous to skiers and climbers, is an avalanche.

Kanchenjunga rises to 8,586 metres on the Sikkim-Nepal border and is the highest peak in India's undisputed territory, as well as the third highest in the world after Everest and K2.

Java lies wholly in the Southern Hemisphere, roughly between 6° S and 9° S, so the Equator does not pass over it.

C. W. Thornthwaite measured precipitation effectiveness and thermal efficiency, that is, the balance between the water a place receives and the water it loses to evaporation and transpiration, and because these are derived quantities rather than raw readings his scheme is called rational.

Lying in the middle of the North Atlantic, it is bounded on all sides by the currents of the North Atlantic gyre rather than by any coast, and it takes its name from the floating Sargassum weed in which European and American eels breed.

The Trans-Gangetic Plain zone lies beyond the Yamuna, that is on the Punjab side of the Ganga system, and takes in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh and the Ganganagar belt of Rajasthan; its canal and tubewell irrigation supports the wheat and rice rotation of the green revolution.