Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 17

The pre-monsoon thundery showers of Karnataka are called cherry blossom showers or blossom showers because they help the coffee plants of the Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan belt to flower.

Tropical dry deciduous forest covers the largest share of India's forest area.

El Nino, Spanish for the child, is the warm surface water that appears off the coast of Peru and Ecuador around Christmas in some years, replacing the normally cold Peru or Humboldt current.

Iron and steel is indeed a heavy industry, but not because of light raw materials. Industries are classified by the weight of the material they handle.

Jog Falls is in the Shivamogga district of Karnataka. The Sharavathi river drops about 253 metres here in four separate streams known as Raja, Rani, Rocket and Roarer, which makes Jog one of the highest plunge waterfalls in India.

Milpa is the name given to shifting cultivation in Mexico and in the neighbouring parts of Central America, where maize, beans and squash are grown together on a patch cleared from the forest.

Kharif crops are the monsoon crops: they are sown with the onset of the south-west monsoon in June and July and harvested in September and October, when the rains withdraw.

Zoji La, or the Zojila pass, lies in the Zanskar range of the Himalayas at a height of about 3,528 metres.

Red Sindhi is an indigenous Indian dairy breed of cattle, while the other three are Indian dog breeds.

Dang is not a South Indian tribe. The name belongs to the Dangs district of southern Gujarat, whose tribal people are mainly Bhil, Warli and Konkana, all of western India.

The monsoon trough is the belt of low pressure that lies across the northern plains during the rainy season and guides the depressions that bring rain.

Sikkim does not touch Myanmar. Its neighbours across the border are Nepal to the west, China in the north and east, and Bhutan to the south-east.

The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt running around the rim of the Pacific Ocean, from the Andes up the west coast of the Americas, across the Aleutians and down through Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia to New Zealand.

The Blue Revolution means the rapid rise in fish production, so it belongs to pisciculture, the rearing of fish. In India it began with the Fish Farmers Development Agency set up in the early 1970s, and Dr Hiralal Chaudhuri, who worked out induced breeding in carp, is called its father.

The Tehri Dam stands on the Bhagirathi in the Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, just below the point where the Bhilangana joins the river.

Kolkata is the only major port of India built on a river, the Hooghly, about 200 km upstream from the sea.

Maize is the crop grown both as food and as fodder, needing 21°C to 27°C and old alluvial soil. Maize is a kharif crop sown with the onset of the monsoon, though in Bihar and a few other states it is also raised in the rabi season.

An isohyet is a line drawn on a map through all the places that receive the same amount of rainfall in a given period.

Textbooks describing the distribution of water on earth give about 97.2 per cent as ocean water, roughly 2 per cent locked in ice caps and glaciers, and well under 1 per cent as groundwater, lakes, rivers, soil moisture and water vapour together.

In the Koeppen classification as applied to India, the semi-arid steppe climate marked BShw covers parts of Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and the drier interior of the peninsula, where rainfall is low but not as low as in a true desert.