Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 92

Honshu is the largest of Japan's islands, the main island on which Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Mount Fuji are found.

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 Pamir knot is the node where the Himalaya, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, the Kunlun and the Tian Shan ranges meet, and the Fedchenko glacier, running for roughly seventy-seven kilometres, is the longest glacier found anywhere outside the Arctic and the Antarctic.

The Gangotri glacier ends in a snout shaped like the mouth of a cow, which gives it the name Gaumukh, and the stream that issues from it is the Bhagirathi.

Anamudi, 2,695 metres, in the Anaimalai hills of Kerala, is the highest peak of the Western Ghats and of the whole of peninsular and south India, and it stands inside the Eravikulam National Park, the chief home of the Nilgiri tahr.

The eye is ten to fifty kilometres across, the air inside it sinks rather than rises, the wind is light and the sky can even be clear, while the atmospheric pressure there is the lowest in the whole system.

UNCLOS defines the contiguous zone and gives landlocked states rights, but it gives the Security Council no such role, and the United States has not ratified it.

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

Bermuda is a small group of islands in the western North Atlantic, about 1,000 km east of the coast of North Carolina in the USA.

Rows 3 and 4 are correct; rows 1 and 2 have the wrong region or type. Fold mountains form when plates converge and layers of rock crumple.

A cirque, also called a corrie, is the armchair-shaped hollow that a glacier scoops at the head of its valley by plucking and abrasion; when the ice melts, water collects in the rock basin and the small round lake so formed is a tarn.

In a flow channel the water runs from the canal head down to the fields purely under gravity, because the bed of the canal is laid at a slope and the source lies higher than the land it serves.

Guru Shikhar, 1,722 metres, stands on Mount Abu in the Sirohi district of Rajasthan and is the highest point both of the state and of the Aravalli, the oldest fold mountain system of India; Mount Abu is also the only hill station of Rajasthan.

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 Chagos Archipelago lies in the central Indian Ocean, not in the North Pacific. The Chagos Islands lie south of the Maldives, roughly 500 km away, and include Diego Garcia, the site of a major military base.

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.

A drumlin is a smooth oval mound of till, the unsorted debris left by ice, shaped like an inverted spoon with its steeper end facing the direction from which the glacier came; a group of drumlins produces what is called basket-of-eggs topography.

Dhupgarh, about 1,350 metres, rises above Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh and is the highest point of the Satpura range and of the state; Pachmarhi is the only hill station of Madhya Pradesh and lies within a biosphere reserve.

A glacier fills the whole floor of a valley and erodes its sides as well as its bed, so it widens and deepens the valley into a trough with a broad flat floor and steep straight walls, which in section looks like the letter U. Option A is wrong because…

Reo Purgyil, 6,816 metres, stands in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on the Zanskar range near the border with Tibet, and it is the highest point of the state.