Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 140

Statements 1 and 3 are correct; statement 2 is wrong because the Brahmani is formed by the South Koel and the Sankh, not the Kosi.

Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world and by far the largest with no sea coast. Its shore on the Caspian does not change this, because the Caspian is the world's largest lake and has no natural connection with the ocean, so Kazakhstan is counted as landlocked.

Weathering, mass wasting, erosion and transportation together wear down and strip away the earth's surface, and this combined work is called denudation.

The Bering Strait lies between the Chukchi peninsula of Russia and the Seward peninsula of Alaska, joining the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea, and the International Date Line passes through it; in the ice ages a land bridge here allowed people and animals to cross into America.

The word nimbus means rain cloud: these dark, thick clouds bring steady rain or snow. Nimbus clouds form at low to middle heights and are so dense that sunlight hardly passes through them, which is why they look dark grey or black.

Ghawar, discovered in 1948 in the eastern province of the kingdom, has been the largest conventional oil field known anywhere, and it is the field most often named in exams along with Safaniya, the biggest offshore field, also Saudi.

A scatter graph is the right diagram when the aim is to show how two sets of data are related to each other.

An isohyet joins points receiving the same amount of precipitation over a stated period, and rainfall maps of India are drawn with isohyets to mark the wet and dry belts.

Bagram Air Base lies in Parwan province of Afghanistan, about 60 km north of the capital Kabul.

Aleppo is in Syria and Mazar-i-Sharif is in Afghanistan; Kirkuk and Mosul are both in Iraq. Aleppo, in north-western Syria, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and its old city with the citadel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The Dogger Bank is a large shallow sandbank in the North Sea about 100 kilometres off the east coast of England, one of the richest fishing grounds of Europe.

The Ural mountains, an old worn range running north to south across Russia, together with the Ural river, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, form the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia, which is why the two are often treated as one land mass called Eurasia.

Moraines, eskers and outwash plains are landforms left by glaciers, and among these Union Territories only Ladakh has glaciated high mountains.

Detroit stands on the Detroit River, which links Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie, and is far from Lake Superior.

The Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 defines the Eastern Rivers as the Sutlej, the Beas and the Ravi, and the Western Rivers as the Indus, the Jhelum and the Chenab.

Oil was struck at Digboi in upper Assam at the end of the nineteenth century and the refinery there, set up in 1901, is the oldest still in operation in the country.

In India's land-use records, land that can be farmed but has lain uncultivated for over five years is called culturable wasteland.

Of the forty-four landlocked countries in the world, sixteen are in Africa, among them Chad, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi and Lesotho; the colonial boundaries drawn in the nineteenth century are the reason so many African states were left without a coast.

Services that create, rearrange and interpret new and existing ideas, interpret data and evaluate new technologies are classed as quinary activities.

A wind gap has nothing to do with wind, despite its name. It is a notch or gap in a ridge through which a river once flowed; when that river's headwaters were captured by another stream, the gap was left dry.