Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 36

The Earth turns through 360 degrees in 24 hours, so it covers 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, and each standard time zone is drawn one hour, that is 15 degrees, wide.

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

Earthquake waves fall into body waves, which travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves, which move along the surface, and the surface waves are called L waves, or long waves.

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

Where air pressure is low the air rises, cools as it goes up and the moisture in it condenses, so low pressure brings cloudy skies and wet weather, while in a high pressure area the air sinks and warms, clouds do not form and the sky stays clear and sunny.

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.

The Godavari rises near Trimbakeshwar in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, in the Western Ghats, about 80 km from the Arabian Sea.

In the troposphere the air is warmed mainly from below: the earth absorbs incoming short-wave insolation and then heats the layer of air touching it by conduction, radiation and convection.

The Sirki Waterfall lies near Pasighat in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

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

The Puga valley in Ladakh, with its hot springs and steam vents, is one of the two geothermal fields named in Indian geography, the other being Manikaran in the Parvati valley of Himachal Pradesh.

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.

An agro-based industry uses a farm product as its raw material, and sugar is made from sugarcane, which is why the mills stand in the cane belts of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu; cotton textiles, jute, vegetable oil, tea and paper from bagasse belong to the same class.

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.

The correct answer is C, NH-44, which runs from Srinagar to Kanyakumari over about 3,745 kilometres through Jammu, Delhi, Agra, Gwalior, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Madurai, and was formed by merging several older highways at the time of renumbering.

Both rivers flow north-west across the plains of Europe and end in the North Sea.

The census of 1881, taken during the viceroyalty of Lord Ripon, was the first in which the whole country was enumerated with reference to a single date, and from that year the census has been held every ten years without a break.

Ooty, or Udhagamandalam, sits in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu at about 2,240 metres, but it lies close to the equator at roughly 11 degrees north, so its winter temperatures stay above freezing and it gets no snowfall.

Himachal Pradesh lies west of the Nepal border, so it touches China in the north but never Nepal. Five Indian states share a boundary with Nepal - Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim - and the border runs for about 1,751 kilometres.

Plate tectonics says the Earth's rigid outer shell is broken into plates that keep moving slowly, carried by convection currents in the mantle below.