SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pitch is how shrill or how flat a sound seems to the ear, and it is decided by frequency, the number of vibrations per second measured in hertz.

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.

A blank document in MS Word 2016 opens with the body font Calibri at a size of 11 points.

A clinical thermometer is marked from 35 to 42 degrees Celsius, which on the Fahrenheit scale is 94 to 108 degrees.

A shortage of iodine makes the thyroid gland in the neck swell, a condition called goitre. The thyroid needs iodine to make the hormone thyroxine, and when iodine is short the gland grows larger to trap whatever little is available, so the neck looks visibly swollen.

Tanjore, or Thanjavur, was the capital of the Cholas and not of the Chalukyas, so this pair is wrongly matched.

The middle ear holds three tiny bones, the smallest in the human body, called the malleus, the incus and the stapes, which in everyday English are the hammer, the anvil and the stirrup.

Sound is a mechanical wave: it travels only when the particles of a medium push against their neighbours, so the closer and more tightly bound those particles are, the faster the disturbance is passed on.

A unisexual flower carries only one kind of reproductive organ, either stamens or a pistil, while a bisexual flower carries both.

A microphone is a transducer: sound waves strike a thin diaphragm, the diaphragm vibrates, and that mechanical vibration is turned into a varying electric signal.

At sunset the Sun is close to the horizon, so its light travels through a much thicker layer of atmosphere before it reaches the eye.

That equipment is why compound scores run so high and so close together, and why a single arrow off the centre normally decides a match.

The Prime Minister specifically noted that their performance matched the world mark, and said this was what made the gold even more special.