Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 80

A strong solar storm disturbs the Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere, which hits electrical and radio systems, but it cannot cause tsunamis or forest fires.

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 Umaria coalfield lies in the Umaria district of Madhya Pradesh, not in Jharkhand. Most of India's coal is Gondwana coal, found in the valleys of the Damodar, Son, Mahanadi, Godavari and Wardha rivers.

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.

Salt weathering breaks rock by the physical pressure of growing salts, so it is a form of physical (mechanical) weathering, not chemical weathering.

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.

On a mountain slope, rainfall increases with height only up to a certain level and then decreases above it; this is called the inversion of rainfall.

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

Statement 4 is wrong: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge rises thousands of metres above the ocean floor, not thirty-three metres. The ocean floor has relief as varied as the land.

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.

Satellite sensors are used to estimate all three, because each leaves a signature in the light or heat a place gives off.

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.

Aleppo is in Syria and Mazar-i-Sharif is in Afghanistan; Kirkuk and Mosul are both in Iraq. Aleppo, in north-western Syria, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and its old city with the citadel is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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.

At about 5,895 m, it is the highest peak in Africa and the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in north-eastern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border.

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.

Plate tectonics, propounded in 1967, holds that the lithosphere is broken into seven major plates and a number of minor ones that move over the plastic asthenosphere.

The mainland of India extends from about 68 degrees 7 minutes east to about 97 degrees 25 minutes east, a longitudinal spread of roughly 29 degrees.

The word comes from the Greek hyetos, meaning rain, so an isohyet joins all places on a map that receive the same amount of rainfall in a given period; rainfall distribution maps of India, which show the 200 centimetre and 50 centimetre lines, are drawn with isohyets.

Bandarpunch feeds the Yamuna, Bara Shigri the Chenab and Siachen the Nubra; pairs 3 and 5 are wrong. The Yamunotri glacier, the source of the Yamuna, lies on the western slopes of the Bandarpunch massif in Uttarakhand.