Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 74

Bolivia lost its coast on the Pacific to Chile in the War of the Pacific in the nineteenth century and now reaches the sea only through the ports of its neighbours, while Paraguay lies in the interior and depends on the Parana and Paraguay rivers for an outlet, which is…

The figure usually quoted is 7,516.6 kilometres, which counts the coast of the mainland together with that of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

Its cotton textile mills, which began in the 1860s and multiplied in the early twentieth century, earned it the comparison with the English mill town of Manchester.

The Pennar river cut the Gandikota gorge through the Erramala hills in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. Gandikota is often called the Grand Canyon of India.

The Bay of Bengal gets about four cyclones for every one that forms in the Arabian Sea.

The Deccan Traps, the vast lava plateau of the north-western peninsula, were laid down by eruptions at the close of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago.

Its coast runs along the Gulf of Kachchh and the Gulf of Khambhat and around the Kathiawar peninsula, which gives it a far longer shoreline than any other State, and it is followed by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Nanda Devi belongs to the Kumaon Himalaya, but Namcha Barwa and Nokrek are wrongly placed. Nanda Devi (7,816 m) is the highest peak lying wholly within India and the highest in Uttarakhand.

Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh and the old seat of the Nawabs of Awadh, stands on the Gomti, a tributary of the Ganga that rises in the Pilibhit district.

Hyderabad was founded in 1591 on the Musi, a tributary of the Krishna, and the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs built on the Musi still help supply the city.

The Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale puts a storm of the Atlantic and the eastern Pacific in one of five categories by its sustained wind, from Category 1, which begins at about 119 km/h, to Category 5 at 252 km/h and above, and a storm of Category 3 or higher is…

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

Under the Maritime Zones Act of 1976 the territorial waters extend to twelve nautical miles from the baseline, and within them India has sovereignty over the water, the seabed, the subsoil and the air space, subject only to the right of innocent passage of foreign ships.

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.

The Danube rises in the Black Forest of Germany, flows east through central Europe and reaches the Black Sea, and it passes the capitals of Austria, Hungary and Serbia, which is why it is said to water more capital cities than any other river in the world.

Natural change counts only births and deaths, so it is the birth rate minus the death rate. Both rates are usually given per thousand people per year.

Within this zone the coastal State has sovereign rights for exploring, exploiting, conserving and managing the living and non-living resources of the water, the seabed and the subsoil, and exclusive jurisdiction over artificial islands, marine scientific research and the protection of the marine environment.

Rourkela, built in the Second Five Year Plan, was set up with West German collaboration, close to the iron ore of Odisha and the coal of the Chhotanagpur plateau.

The Ten Degree Channel runs roughly along the parallel of ten degrees north and separates Little Andaman in the south of the Andaman group from Car Nicobar in the north of the Nicobar group.

Firozabad has made glass for generations and supplies most of the glass bangles sold in India, along with chandeliers and laboratory glassware.