SSC CGL GK Questions 2026

Both statements are true, and UPSC's official key also gives C. Water vapour is a variable gas, from almost nil in cold deserts to about 4 percent of the air by volume in the warm, humid tropics.

Both statements are correct: a ground inversion is formed by radiation cooling, and it is the same as a negative lapse rate near the surface.

SGML was designed to be independent of both hardware and software, so saying it depends on a computer's hardware is false.

By mass, an adult human body has the most oxygen, then carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. Oxygen makes up about 65 percent of body mass, carbon about 18 percent, hydrogen about 10 percent and nitrogen about 3 percent.

The Great Himalayan area in Himachal Pradesh is a national park, not a biosphere reserve. The Great Himalayan National Park lies in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh.

Near the horizon, sunlight crosses a much thicker layer of air, and scattering removes most of the blue light before it reaches us.

The glass of a glowing bulb is heated mainly by radiation from the white-hot filament, not by convection. Conduction passes heat through a solid from particle to particle, convection carries heat by the actual movement of a fluid, and radiation sends heat as electromagnetic waves that need no medium.

The sub-prime crisis was the collapse of risky American home loans in 2007 and 2008 that set off the worldwide Great Recession.

A normal demand curve slopes downward from left to right, so its slope is negative. The law of demand says that, other things remaining the same, the quantity demanded of a good rises when its price falls and falls when its price rises.

Both the North Atlantic Drift and the Brazil Current carry warm water from low latitudes towards higher latitudes. As a rule, currents that flow from the equator towards the poles are warm, and those that flow from the poles towards the equator are cold.

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are called terrestrial planets because, like the earth, they are made of rock and metal.

The Ten Degree Channel, which runs along roughly the 10° North parallel, separates the Andaman group from the Nicobar group.

. Insurance is in the Union List of the Seventh Schedule, so the statement that it is not there is incorrect.

Dhamma is Ashoka's moral code, not one of the seven limbs of the state listed in Kautilya's Arthashastra. Kautilya, the minister of Chandragupta Maurya, compared the state to a body with seven limbs, or angas.

Structural unemployment arises when the structure of the economy changes, through new technology or a lasting shift in what people buy, and workers' skills no longer match the jobs available.

Statements 1 and 4 are true, while 2 and 3 are false. After the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931, Gandhi attended the Second Round Table Conference in London (September to December 1931) as the sole Congress representative.

All three factors shape the general circulation of the atmosphere, which is why UPSC's official key gives D. Planetary winds are the trade winds, the westerlies and the polar easterlies.

Joining a program to the library routines it calls is the job of a linker, a separate system utility, not of the operating system.

Caesium melts at about 28.5 °C, the lowest of these alkali metals, so it can turn liquid on a warm day or in the hand.

The Kuroshio is a warm current that flows north-east along the east coast of Japan, carrying warm tropical water from the North Equatorial Current.