Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 134

With an average density of about 5.51 grams per cubic centimetre, Earth is the densest planet of the solar system.

The correct answer is B, Kanyakumari, also called Cape Comorin, in Tamil Nadu, which stands at about 8 degrees 4 minutes north and is the southern tip of the Indian mainland, where the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean are said to meet.

Indian Standard Time is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, so noon in New Delhi is 6:30 in the morning in London.

A contour, whose technical name is isohypse, joins all points standing at the same height above sea level and is the chief means of showing relief on a topographical sheet; contours drawn close together mean a steep slope, contours far apart a gentle slope, and contours that merge indicate a…

A batholith is the largest intrusive igneous body and forms deepest in the crust, so it lies lowest of all these forms.

Lake Titicaca lies on the Altiplano of the Andes at about 3,810 metres above sea level and carries regular boat traffic, which is why it is called the highest navigable lake in the world.

The focus, also called the hypocentre, is the point inside the earth where the energy of an earthquake is first released and from where its waves start.

Barren Island in the Andaman group of the Bay of Bengal carries the only active volcano in India and indeed in South Asia, part of the volcanic arc produced where the Indian plate dips beneath the Burma plate, and it has erupted several times in recent decades.

The Kabini is a tributary of the Kaveri and the Manjra is a tributary of the Godavari, so only pairs 2 and 3 are correct.

Debris falling from the valley sides collects along each edge of a glacier as a lateral moraine; where a tributary glacier joins the trunk glacier, the inner lateral moraine of each merges into a single dark stripe of rock waste that runs down the middle of the combined ice, and…

Where evapotranspiration is much greater than rainfall, water moves upward in the soil and calcium carbonate builds up near the surface.

Guru Shikhar, 1,722 metres, stands on Mount Abu in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan and is the highest point both of the state and of the Aravalli, the oldest fold mountain system of India; Mount Abu is also the only hill station of Rajasthan.

High-yielding variety seeds came only in the mid-1960s with the Green Revolution, not immediately after Independence. After Partition, India lost much of its irrigated wheat and rice land to Pakistan and faced food shortages.

The Bank brought India and Pakistan to the table in 1952, proposed the division of the rivers into eastern and western groups, helped to arrange the finance for Pakistan's replacement canals, and signed the treaty for the limited purposes in which it has a role, such as helping to appoint…

It is a form of physical, or mechanical, weathering: the rock breaks into pieces but its chemical make-up does not change.

Sahibganj lies on the Ganga in the north-eastern corner of Jharkhand and its terminal was built to move coal and stone chips from the Rajmahal belt by water instead of road.

Relative humidity compares the water vapour actually present in the air with the most the air could hold at that temperature, so both figures are needed.

In Koeppen's scheme B marks dry climates, and the letter W, from the German Wüste meaning desert, marks the driest of them.

Spring tides occur whenever the Sun, the Earth and the Moon lie in a straight line, a position called syzygy, whether the Moon is on the same side as the Sun or the opposite side.

The Eight Degree Channel runs roughly along the 8 degree north latitude in the Arabian Sea and separates Minicoy, the southernmost island of Lakshadweep, from the Maldives.