Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 94

The Equator and the Prime Meridian both lie on circles whose centre is the centre of the Earth.

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.

Geyserite is a chemically formed sedimentary rock: it is silica that comes out of solution from hot spring and geyser water and is deposited around the vent.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

P waves are the fastest seismic waves and reach a seismograph first, and they move particles along the direction of travel, while S waves move them at right angles to it.

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.

South India has an equable, maritime climate, not an extreme one, because it lies close to the equator and is surrounded by the sea on three sides.

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 pull of the Sun and Moon raises the tides, the regular rise and fall of the sea, but it is not counted among the forces that drive ocean currents.

Population ageing is the process by which the share of older people becomes proportionately larger, not lesser, so statement 1 is false, while statement 2 is true.

Pulicat Lake lies in two states, but the Himalayas and the Western Ghats each spread over more than five states.

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.

The Himalayan Frontal Fault lies on the southern edge of the range and separates the Himalaya from the Indo-Gangetic plains, not from Tibet.

In Köppen's scheme it stands for a hot desert climate with its little rain in summer, which fits western Rajasthan.

The Cardamom Hills form the southernmost part of the Western Ghats, lying south of the Palghat Gap along the Kerala–Tamil Nadu border.

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.

The Kaveri is an old peninsular river with a mature valley, and the Alaknanda is a young Himalayan river still cutting its valley, but the largest east-flowing peninsular river is the Godavari, not the Krishna.

Loktak Lake lies in the valley of Manipur, south of Imphal, and is the largest freshwater lake in north-east India.

Indian farming is dominated by food crops, not cash crops. Most of India’s cropped area is under food grains such as rice, wheat, millets and pulses, grown largely to feed the farm family and the country.

All three statements are false: some coal plants use seawater, many stand in water-stressed districts, and a large share are privately owned.