Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 133

These four outer planets are the gas planets, also called Jovian planets, made mostly of hydrogen, helium, ices and liquids rather than rock.

The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, runs about 193 kilometres across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt from Port Said on the Mediterranean to the city of Suez on the Red Sea, and because the two seas stand at nearly the same level the canal needs no locks.

A place at 90° E is six hours ahead of Greenwich, so 10:00 a.m. GMT becomes 4:00 p.m.

The contour interval chosen for a sheet depends chiefly on its scale and on the relief of the ground: a large-scale map can carry closely spaced contours without the lines running into each other, so a small interval is both possible and desirable.

It separates the liquid outer core from the solid inner core at a depth of about 5,150 km, making it the deepest of the four boundaries.

Of the Central Asian countries listed, only Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan touch Afghanistan, all along its northern edge.

Arc volcanoes form above subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries, not at divergent ones, so statement 1 is false while 2 and 3 are true.

The Volga, about 3,530 kilometres long, is the longest river of Europe and flows entirely within Russia to end in the Caspian, which is a landlocked salt lake and the largest lake in the world, so the Volga never reaches an ocean.

South Arcot and Ramanathapuram lie on the Tamil Nadu coast, which gets most of its yearly rain from the retreating, or north-east, monsoon in October to December.

Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, and Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, face each other across the Río de la Plata. The River Plate is a wide funnel-shaped estuary formed where the Paraná and Uruguay rivers meet before entering the Atlantic Ocean.

The Palar and the Pennar rise on the Karnataka plateau and flow east into the Bay of Bengal, while the Periyar and the Kalinadi flow west into the Arabian Sea.

Raniganj in West Bengal is known for coal mining, not for making iron and steel. The Raniganj coalfield in the Damodar valley is the oldest coalfield of India, where commercial coal mining began in 1774.

Lonar was formed by a meteorite impact, and its rocks contain maskelynite, a natural glass that forms only under such high-velocity impacts and is also found in lunar rocks.

The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, which studies the stocks, breeding and farming of sea fish along the Indian coast, has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala.

Aridisols are the soils of deserts, and they are poor in organic matter, so this statement about them is not correct.

The India Meteorological Department puts a system in the highest class, super cyclonic storm, when the sustained wind at its centre reaches 222 km/h, which is 120 knots.

Both statements match the standard description of these two millets in Indian geography. Bajra (pearl millet) is a hardy crop of dry areas.

The Atal Tunnel runs under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh and cuts the road distance between Manali and Leh by about 46 km, saving four to five hours of travel.

In Census 2011, Scheduled Tribes made up about 94.4 percent of Mizoram's population, the highest share among all the states.

The Helmand rises in the Hindu Kush west of Kabul, crosses southern Afghanistan and ends in the Hamoun wetlands on the Afghanistan-Iran border.