Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 83

Parallels shrink as they move towards the poles, so the 0° parallel, the Equator, is the longest of all. Parallels of latitude are circles drawn parallel to the Equator.

Albania lies on the Adriatic, Kazakhstan on the Caspian and Morocco on the Mediterranean. The Adriatic Sea separates Italy from the Balkan coast of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.

The Precambrian covers all of Earth's history from its formation about 4.6 billion years ago to the start of the Cambrian about 541 million years ago.

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.

The first three statements are true, while statement 4 is false because many earthquakes have their epicentre under the sea.

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 Harmattan blows over West Africa towards the Gulf of Guinea, far from the Mediterranean. The Harmattan is a dry, dusty north-easterly trade wind that blows from the Sahara across West Africa between November and March.

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 Benguela current flows along the west coast of southern Africa, off Namibia and South Africa, not North Africa, so this statement is the incorrect one.

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.

Moving from north to south across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, these ranges appear in exactly this order. The Karakoram, the northernmost, holds K2 (Godwin Austen), India's highest peak, and large glaciers such as the Siachen.

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.

The shortest rail route from Bengaluru reaches Delhi from the south through Agra and Mathura, which lie on the western side of the Yamuna, so the train never has to cross that river.

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

Aliyar, Isapur and Kangsabati are all dams with reservoirs built for irrigation in different parts of India. The Aliyar dam stands on the Aliyar river near Pollachi in Coimbatore district of Tamil Nadu, at the foot of the Anamalai hills, and is part of the Parambikulam-Aliyar project.

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

In parts of the dry west, arid soils hold so much salt that common salt is made by evaporating the saline water.

Deendayal Port is the new name of Kandla Port, which lies on the Gulf of Kachchh in the Kachchh district of Gujarat.

Kerala was narrowly ahead of Jharkhand in Census 2011, and Assam was clearly ahead of Punjab. Census 2011 counted about 3.34 crore people in Kerala, 3.30 crore in Jharkhand, 3.12 crore in Assam and 2.77 crore in Punjab.

Caves, arches, stacks and stumps are erosional landforms carved by sea waves on rocky coasts. Waves attack a headland from both sides and wear away the weaker rock along cracks.