Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 37

The Yamuna rises from the Yamunotri glacier on the Bandarpunch range in the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, so its source lies inside the Indian Himalayas.

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.

Dal Lake in Srinagar is called the jewel of Srinagar, because the houseboats, floating gardens and shikaras of the city sit on it.

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 works, begun in the time of the Mysore state and later named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya, lies on the Bhadra river and is remembered in geography as the plant that uses electricity generated from water power, along with charcoal from the nearby forests, because the region has no coking…

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

Because the river silts up, the port needs continuous dredging and large ships are handled at the Haldia dock complex downstream.

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.

Census 2011 counted 1,210.8 million people, that is about 121 crore, of whom roughly 62.37 crore were males and 58.65 crore females, giving India about 17.5 per cent of the world's population on about 2.4 per cent of its land area.

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

New oceanic crust is made at mid-ocean ridges, where magma rises, cools and is pushed outwards on both sides, and that process is called seafloor spreading.

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

Muri, a town in the Ranchi district of Jharkhand, has a large alumina refinery, so it is remembered as an aluminium centre.

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 correct answer is B, Gorakhpur, in eastern Uttar Pradesh, which is the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway and has one of the longest railway platforms in the country.

The Irula, also written Irular, are one of the main tribal communities of Tamil Nadu and live mostly in the Nilgiri hills and in the districts along the border with Kerala.

Census 2011 recorded an overall sex ratio of 943, an improvement over 933 in 2001, while the child sex ratio in the age group of nought to six years fell to 919 girls per 1,000 boys, the lowest recorded since independence.

In the continental drift theory that Alfred Wegener put forward in 1912, the single land mass was Pangaea and the single mega ocean around it was Panthalassa, a Greek name meaning all sea.

The correct answer is C, the Ganga, Bhagirathi and Hooghly, from Haldia in West Bengal to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, about 1,620 kilometres, declared the first national waterway in 1986 and being deepened under the Jal Marg Vikas Project with terminals at Varanasi, Sahibganj and Haldia.

Census 2011 recorded an overall literacy rate of 74.04 per cent, made up of 82.14 per cent among males and 65.46 per cent among females, the gap of nearly seventeen percentage points being a favourite point for questions.