Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 71

This is the order of the layers of the atmosphere from the ground upwards, with the exosphere above them all.

The Teesta flows from Sikkim through West Bengal into Bangladesh and joins the Brahmaputra, so it has nothing to do with the Indus system.

Flowing east across Tibet as the Tsangpo, the river bends sharply around Namcha Barwa and turns south into Arunachal Pradesh.

Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.

Soil scientists list parent material, topography (relief), climate, biological activity and time as the factors that form soil; where people live is not one of them.

In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.

Monazite is a phosphate mineral rich in rare earths and thorium, it occurs only in certain stretches of India's beach sands, and only government bodies may handle it.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this class of India's land-use records.

Census 2011 sorted workers into four economic categories: cultivators, agricultural labourers, household industry workers and other workers; domestic workers is not one of them.

Only the Aral Sea has shrunk drastically because of human activity. The Aral Sea, on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the world's fourth-largest lake.

Telangana is a landlocked state bordered by exactly these four states. Telangana was carved out of Andhra Pradesh on 2 June 2014 as India's 29th state, with Hyderabad as its capital.

The eight countries of the WMO and ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones agreed on a list of names for this basin and began using them in 2004, long after the Atlantic, where naming had been practice for decades.

A spit is a ridge of sand or shingle joined to the land at one end, with the other end running out into open water.

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a Polynesian island in the south-eastern Pacific that has belonged to Chile since 1888.

All three statements are correct descriptions of fog and its two main types. Fog forms when air near the ground cools to its dew point and its water vapour condenses on tiny dust and smoke particles, so it is in effect a cloud at or near ground level.

In January the northern oceans are warmer than the frozen continents, so isotherms bend north over the sea and south over the land; the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift are warm currents, not cold ones.

The Salal hydroelectric project is a run-of-the-river project on the Chenab in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. Built and run by NHPC, Salal has an installed capacity of 690 MW and was the first project India built under the Indus Waters Treaty of 1960 on a western river.

The islands have a warm, humid tropical maritime climate and get rain from both monsoons, but December to May is their drier part of the year.

Gwadar is a deep-sea port on the Arabian Sea coast of Pakistan's Balochistan province. Gwadar lies on the Makran coast, not far from the border with Iran and close to the mouth of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.

Bahrain and Qatar have coasts only on the Persian Gulf, whose sole outlet to the Indian Ocean is the Strait of Hormuz.