Static General Knowledge makes up the rest of the General Awareness section in RRB NTPC, and the notices name its topics: General Science and Life Science up to Class 10, History of India and the freedom struggle, Physical, Social and Economic Geography of India and the world, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, Art and Culture, Indian Literature, Monuments and Places, Flora and Fauna, Famous Personalities, the UN and other world organisations, environmental issues, Transport Systems in India, Important Government and Public Sector Organisations, Common Abbreviations, and Basics of Computers and Computer Applications. RRB frames these as short factual questions: the unit of a physical quantity, the year of a battle, the article of the Constitution, the river a city stands on, the full form of an abbreviation, the headquarters of an organisation. GK24's GK notes on this page cover each topic in English and Hindi, arranged the way the syllabus lists them, with the facts RRB tends to ask placed first. Work through one topic at a time, note the lists (national parks, dances, articles, schedules, awards), and pair each topic with its quiz on GK24 to check what has stayed with you.
In the Index of Industrial Production, which of the three sectors carries the largest weight?
Mining, option A, has 14.37 per cent, and electricity, option C, has 7.99 per cent, so the three add up to a hundred.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following sectors is NOT covered by the Index of Industrial Production?
The IIP is confined to the industrial sector and has exactly three components, mining, manufacturing and electricity, which are options A, B and C. Agriculture and the whole of the services sector, which together account for the larger part of India's output, lie outside the index, and that is why…
Read the full explanation →Which organisation compiles and releases the Index of Industrial Production in India?
It works under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, gathers production returns from more than a dozen source agencies spread across ministries, and publishes the IIP every month as a Quick Estimate that is revised as fuller data come in.
Read the full explanation →Tropical thorn forests in India are found in areas where the annual rainfall is:
Tropical thorn forest and scrub is the natural vegetation of the semi-arid belt that runs through Rajasthan, Gujarat, Haryana, south-western Punjab, western Madhya Pradesh and parts of the Deccan interior, where rainfall falls short of 70 centimetres.
Read the full explanation →The patches of montane temperate forest found in the folds of the Nilgiri, Anaimalai and Palani hills are locally called:
Sholas are small, dense, stunted evergreen forests that survive in the sheltered valleys and folds of the high hills of the Western Ghats above about 1,500 metres, and they alternate with rolling grassland to form the shola grassland mosaic, a habitat of the Nilgiri tahr.
Read the full explanation →Which organisation assesses the forest cover of India and publishes the India State of Forest Report?
It works under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, has its headquarters at Dehradun, maps the forest and tree cover of the country with satellite imagery and field checks, and brings out the India State of Forest Report once every two years.
Read the full explanation →What share of the total land area does the National Forest Policy aim to bring under forest and tree cover?
The National Forest Policy of 1952 fixed the goal of keeping about one-third of the total land area of the country under forest, with a larger share in the hills and mountains, where slopes need tree cover to hold the soil, and a smaller share in the plains.
Read the full explanation →The classification of Indian forests prepared by Champion and Seth in 1968 is based mainly on:
Harry Champion and S. K. Seth revised the earlier survey of Indian forest types in 1968 and grouped the forests into major groups such as moist tropical, dry tropical, montane subtropical, montane temperate, sub-alpine and alpine, each divided further into types, using the climatic controls of rainfall, humidity and temperature.
Read the full explanation →Breathing roots, or pneumatophores, are a characteristic feature of which forests?
Mangroves grow in the salty, waterlogged mud of deltas and creeks, where the soil holds almost no oxygen, so the roots send up narrow pegs called pneumatophores above the mud surface to breathe, and many species also stand on arching stilt roots for support in the soft ground.
Read the full explanation →The Sundarbans mangrove forest takes its name from which tree?
The sundari, whose botanical name is Heritiera fomes, is the dominant mangrove of the Ganga and Brahmaputra delta and gives the Sundarbans its name; its timber is hard and was long used for boats and posts.
Read the full explanation →Rosewood, mahogany, ebony and aini are characteristic trees of which forest type?
These forests grow where annual rainfall exceeds 200 centimetres, on the windward western slopes of the Western Ghats, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in upper Assam and along the hills of the north-east.
Read the full explanation →Famines caused by rat infestation during the flowering of Melocanna baccifera bamboo in parts of North-East India are known as the ______ famines.
Melocanna baccifera, the muli bamboo, covers large tracts of Mizoram and the neighbouring hills and flowers only once in about half a century, after which the whole stand dies.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following forests is a type of permanent forests?
Indian forests are classified administratively into reserved, protected and unclassed forests, and the first two together are described as the permanent forest estate, that is land maintained permanently for timber and other forest produce and for the protection of soil and water.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following forest type is called as monsoon forest?
Tropical deciduous forest is called monsoon forest because it is the natural vegetation of the monsoon climate, growing where rainfall lies between 70 and 200 centimetres and where a marked dry season follows the rains.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following tree is not an example for thorny type of forest?
Red sanders, or red sandalwood, is a tree of the dry deciduous forest and grows almost entirely in the Seshachalam and Palakonda hills of the Eastern Ghats in Andhra Pradesh, where it is prized for its dark red heartwood; it is not a thorn forest species.
Read the full explanation →Which option is correct about the wheel of a car moving on the road?
For the same pair of surfaces the order of friction is always static, then kinetic, then rolling. Static friction is the largest because the surfaces interlock while at rest and that grip has to be broken to start motion.
Read the full explanation →The potential energy of a freely falling body continuously decreases.
As the body falls its height shrinks, so the potential energy m g h falls, but exactly that much energy reappears as kinetic energy, half m v squared, because the body speeds up.
Read the full explanation →The first equation of motion gives the relation between _________.
The first equation of motion is written as v equals u plus a t, so it tells how the velocity of a body changes with time.
Read the full explanation →Identify the INCORRECT pair with respect to the substances and their specific heat capacity (J kg-1K-1) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
Water has a specific heat capacity of about 4186 joule per kilogram per kelvin, not 1200, so this pair is the wrong one.
Read the full explanation →Since the clinical thermometer is designed to measure the temperature of the human body only, it displays the range of 35°C to ______ .
A clinical thermometer is marked from 35 to 42 degrees Celsius, which on the Fahrenheit scale is 94 to 108 degrees.
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