Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 35

The local time of 82 degrees 30 minutes east is taken as Indian Standard Time for the whole country. This meridian passes through Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh.

The Tropic of Capricorn runs at about 23.5 degrees south and misses Uruguay, which lies further south between roughly 30 and 35 degrees.

The Bureau of Indian Standards code IS 1893 divides the country into four seismic zones, numbered II, III, IV and V, where Zone V carries the highest risk and Zone II the least.

An anticyclone is a system of high pressure, with the highest pressure at its centre, and the air there sinks from above.

The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone is the low-pressure belt near the equator where the north-east and the south-east trade winds meet.

Young fold mountains were raised in the Tertiary period, only a few tens of millions of years ago in geological time, so erosion has had little time to wear them down and many of them are still rising as the plates behind them keep pushing.

Tamil Nadu gets most of its rain from the north-east monsoon between October and December, which is why its rainy season comes when the rest of India is drying out.

Albedo is the share of incoming sunlight a surface reflects back, and fresh snow reflects the most of any natural surface on land.

The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli Range in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, then flows south-west across Gujarat and empties into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea after a course of about 371 km.

Cutting the vegetation on a slope makes landslides more likely, not less, so it can never be a mitigation measure.

Kolleru Lake lies in Andhra Pradesh, between the deltas of the Krishna and the Godavari, spread across the Eluru and West Godavari districts.

It is a sea level canal: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea stand at almost the same height, so ships sail straight through without being raised or lowered.

The beach sands of the Kerala coast, and the neighbouring coast of Tamil Nadu, are rich in monazite, from which thorium is obtained, along with ilmenite and other heavy minerals.

The Orient Express ran from Paris in France to Istanbul in Turkey, crossing Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia, so almost the whole of its roughly 3,000 km line lay inside Europe.

Because their raw material is light, valuable and easy to move, and because they need little power or water, such units are free of the usual pulls of ore, coal and bulky material; electronics, computer assembly, diamond cutting and software are the standard examples, and they depend mainly on skilled…

Statement 3 is wrong because the Kaleshwaram project is built on the Godavari, not the Krishna. The scheme takes its name from Kaleshwaram in Telangana, near the point where the Pranhita joins the Godavari, and it was inaugurated in June 2019, which makes statement 1 correct.

The train ran on 16 April 1853 over about 34 kilometres, pulled by three locomotives named Sahib, Sindh and Sultan, and the day is counted as the birth of the Indian Railways.

In Census 2011 Haryana recorded a sex ratio of 879 females per 1,000 males, the lowest among all the states of India, against the national figure of 943; among the union territories the lowest was Daman and Diu.

An inselberg is an isolated residual hill that rises abruptly from a plain in a hot desert, so it is the work of weathering and wind in arid regions, not of glaciers.

The Campos are the tropical grasslands of the Brazilian highlands, the Pampas are the temperate grasslands of Argentina, the Downs are the temperate grasslands of south-east Australia, and the Llanos are the tropical grasslands of the Orinoco basin in Venezuela and Colombia.