Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 136

A batholith is a huge mass of magma that cools and hardens deep inside the crust, usually as granite, and takes the form of large domes.

The India and Bangladesh boundary runs through five States, and of these West Bengal has by far the longest stretch, since Bangladesh lies along its southern and eastern sides.

The Narmada flows west through a rift valley and falls into the Arabian Sea. The Narmada rises at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows west for about 1,300 km between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges, along a rift valley formed by faulting.

It lies in the North Atlantic and is bounded not by land but by four ocean currents, among them the Gulf Stream, which circle its calm, weed-filled waters; the floating sargassum seaweed gives it its name.

Indian laterite soils are poor in organic matter, nitrogen, phosphate and calcium, while iron oxide and potash are present in excess.

Article 262 allows Parliament to make a law for the adjudication of any dispute about the use, distribution or control of the waters of an inter-state river or river valley, and to bar the Supreme Court and all other courts from such disputes.

The Phukot Karnali project is a 480 MW hydropower scheme on the Karnali river in western Nepal, developed with India's NHPC.

Mount Abu is the only hill station of Rajasthan and stands on an isolated block of the Aravalli range in the Sirohi district; Guru Shikhar, at about 1,722 metres, is the highest peak of the Aravalli and lies here, and the Dilwara Jain temples are nearby.

Sentosa is a small resort island just off the southern coast of the main island of Singapore. Sentosa lies across a narrow channel from Singapore's main island and is linked to it by a causeway, a cable car and a monorail.

At the Census of 2011 about sixty-two per cent of Goa's population lived in urban areas, the highest share among the states, followed by Mizoram at about fifty-two per cent and Tamil Nadu at about forty-eight per cent.

National Waterway 2 is the 891 km stretch of the Brahmaputra between Sadiya and Dhubri in Assam. It was declared a national waterway in 1988 and is managed by the Inland Waterways Authority of India, set up in 1986 with its headquarters at Noida.

The Panama Canal does not cut through at sea level; ships are lifted by locks into the artificial Gatun Lake, sail across it and through the Culebra or Gaillard Cut, and are then lowered by locks on the other side, which is why the canal needs a large freshwater reservoir.

Only the Abyssinian plateau (Africa) and the Anatolian plateau (Asia) are matched with the right continent. The Abyssinian or Ethiopian plateau is a high volcanic tableland in the Horn of Africa, where the Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana.

Kiruna lies in Swedish Lapland, inside the Arctic Circle, and works a high-grade magnetite deposit of the Baltic Shield. Its ore is carried by rail to Narvik in Norway, an ice-free port warmed by the North Atlantic Drift, and to Lulea on the Gulf of Bothnia.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is built on the Godavari river in Telangana and is often described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation scheme.

Mercator's is a cylindrical projection on which both parallels and meridians are straight lines crossing at right angles, and it is orthomorphic or conformal, meaning that shapes are true locally and a rhumb line of constant bearing plots as a straight line.

Insolation, the incoming solar radiation, arrives mainly as short waves centred on visible light, but the Earth's curved surface spreads it unevenly, so statement 2 is false.

New York, with its urban agglomeration, became the first city to cross a population of 10 million, around 1950. A megacity is an urban agglomeration with more than 10 million people, the threshold used by the United Nations.

Parts of all three states drain into the Ganga through its tributaries. The Ganga basin is the largest river basin of India, covering about a quarter of the country's area.

It receives a very large river inflow from northern Europe, lies in a cool region where evaporation is slight, and exchanges water with the North Sea only through the narrow Danish straits, so its water is brackish rather than fully saline, especially in the Gulf of Bothnia.