Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 78

This goat of the cold Changthang plateau grows a very fine soft undercoat in winter, and that fibre, combed out in spring, is the pashmina from which Kashmiri shawls are woven.

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.

After the detailed mapping of the ocean floor during and after the Second World War revealed mid-oceanic ridges, deep trenches and a surprisingly thin cover of sediment, Hess proposed in 1961 that molten material rises along the ridge, forms new ocean floor and pushes the older floor away on both…

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.

The western coastal plain is narrow, steep and submergent, so the rivers of the Western Ghats reach the sea through estuaries rather than deltas, and the drowned valleys give deep natural harbours such as Mumbai, Marmagao, New Mangalore and Kochi, besides the Kerala backwaters called kayals.

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 Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, which studies the stocks, breeding and farming of sea fish along the Indian coast, has its headquarters at Kochi in Kerala.

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

The Indian plate moved northwards and met the Eurasian plate. Both carry light continental crust, so neither could sink far into the mantle; instead the sediments of the Tethys Sea lying between them were compressed, folded and thrust upwards to form the Himalaya, and the collision is still going on…

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.

Apiculture is bee keeping for honey and beeswax, and it is counted among the allied activities because it needs almost no land and raises the yield of nearby crops through pollination.

Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake and a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Jade Sea, but it lies in Kenya, not South Sudan.

Along the San Andreas Fault the Pacific plate and the North American plate slide horizontally past each other.

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

Jute is called the golden fibre for the colour of its retted fibre, so the programme to raise its output and improve its processing is named the golden fibre revolution, and it matters most in West Bengal, Bihar and Assam.

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

It lies between South America and the Pacific plate and is one of the well known minor plates, along with the Cocos, Arabian, Philippine, Caribbean, Juan de Fuca, Scotia, Caroline and Fuji plates.

The correct answer is C, because the gains were not spread evenly: they were concentrated in the assured irrigation belt of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and later in parts of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, while the rain fed districts of central and eastern India gained far less.

Near Easter Island in the South Pacific the rise spreads at more than fifteen centimetres a year, the highest rate measured, while the Arctic Ridge in option A has the slowest rate of less than two and a half centimetres a year.

Kadaknath is a poultry breed of the Jhabua and Dhar region of western Madhya Pradesh, reared by tribal households, and its black flesh, bones and blood make it distinctive enough to have been given a geographical indication tag.