Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 75

The date just east of the line is one day behind the date just west of it, but the line runs through the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic.

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 lithosphere is the rigid outer shell of the Earth, made of the crust and the uppermost, solid part of the mantle.

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.

These low-pressure systems travel east from the Mediterranean region and bring winter rain and snow to Kashmir and north-west India.

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.

The Periyar rises in the Western Ghats of Kerala and flows west into the Arabian Sea. The Periyar is the longest river of Kerala.

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.

All three features, richness in lime, iron, magnesia and alumina, a deep clayey and impermeable texture, and a spread over Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, describe the black or regur soil.

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

Arabica, Robusta and Liberica are the main species of the coffee plant, Coffea, grown around the world. Arabica (Coffea arabica) gives a milder, more aromatic coffee and grows best on cool hill slopes at higher altitudes.

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.

Kalakot lies in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir, in the foothills of the Himalaya. India's coal is of two ages.

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.

The Census defines a literate as a person aged seven or above who can both read and write with understanding in any language, so someone who can only read does not qualify.

The Tata Iron and Steel Company plant of 1907 was built at Sakchi, later renamed Jamshedpur, where the Subarnarekha and its tributary the Kharkai meet, close to the coal of Jharia and the iron ore of Odisha.

A zeugen is a tabular ridge carved by wind abrasion in deserts, while a cirque is glacial and a stack is made by sea waves.

Air masses form under calm, stable, anticyclonic (high-pressure) conditions, not in cyclones. An air mass is a huge body of air with nearly uniform temperature and humidity across it.

Spring tides rise about 20 percent higher than normal tides because the Sun and the Moon pull along the same line.

The National Water Academy functions at Khadakwasla in Pune, Maharashtra, under the Central Water Commission. The academy began in 1988 as the Central Training Unit of the Central Water Commission and was renamed the National Water Academy in 1997.