Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 89

The bora is a cold, dry and often violent north-easterly wind that rushes down from the Dinaric Alps onto the eastern Adriatic coast of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and it also reaches Trieste in Italy.

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 Nagavali and the Vamsadhara both rise in the Eastern Ghats of southern Odisha. The Nagavali (also called Langulya) rises in the Eastern Ghats in Kalahandi district of Odisha and flows into the Bay of Bengal in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh.

The Caspian has no natural outlet to any ocean, so it is a landlocked water body, in fact the largest inland body of water on Earth.

Roopkund is a high-altitude glacial lake in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. Roopkund lies at a height of about 5,000 metres in the Garhwal Himalaya, below the peaks of Trishul and Nanda Ghunti.

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.

J is from Assam, which had a population density of 398 persons per square kilometre in Census 2011, far higher than the other three States.

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 Atacama Desert in northern Chile is the driest non-polar desert on Earth; some of its weather stations have recorded almost no rain for years.

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.

River terraces mark old valley floors and may be of bedrock or alluvium, but they are products of erosion, not deposition, so statement 3 is wrong.

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.

Cirrus clouds are thin, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form high in the troposphere. At heights of roughly 6,000 to 10,000 metres the air is far below freezing, so cirrus clouds hold ice crystals instead of water droplets.

In India's land-use classification, land left uncultivated for more than five years is recorded as culturable waste land. India's land records divide area into nine categories.

Licences for deep-sea exploration in international waters are granted by the International Seabed Authority, not by the Global Ocean Commission.

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

The capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands lies at about 11.6° North and 92.7° East, on the east coast of South Andaman.

Statement 3 is wrong: 75 PVTGs have been notified in India, not 95. The category was created in 1973, following the Dhebar Commission, as 'Primitive Tribal Groups' and renamed PVTGs in 2006.

Tripura shares an international border with only one country, Bangladesh, which surrounds it on three sides. Tripura's border with Bangladesh is about 856 km long, and on its remaining side it touches only the Indian states of Assam and Mizoram.

Hiroshima lies in western Honshu, and Nagasaki lies on the west coast of Kyushu. Japan has four main islands: Hokkaido in the north, Honshu, the largest, in the middle, and Shikoku and Kyushu in the south-west.