Which country has the largest coast line?
Answer: C
Canada has the longest coastline.
It measures about 202,000 km, more than the next several countries combined, because of the enormous number of islands in the Arctic archipelago and the deeply indented shores of Hudson Bay and the Atlantic provinces. India's is about 7,500 km.
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The river Godavari is often referred to as Vridha Ganga because
Answer: B
Because of its great size and extent among the peninsular rivers.
The Godavari is the longest river of peninsular India, some 1,465 km from Trimbakeshwar to the Bay of Bengal, and drains the largest basin. That scale earned it the name Vriddha Ganga, the old Ganga, or Dakshin Ganga, the Ganga of the south.
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The scarcity or crop failure of which of the following can cause a serious edible oil crisis in India?
Answer: B
A failure of the groundnut crop would cause an edible oil crisis.
Groundnut is India's largest oilseed by volume, grown chiefly in Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and supplies a large share of the country's domestic cooking oil. The other three are far smaller crops.
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The pennines (Europe), Appalachians (America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of
Answer: A
They are examples of old mountains.
All three are ancient fold ranges - Palaeozoic or Precambrian - long since worn down by erosion to rounded, low relief. The Aravallis, once as high as the Himalayas, now rise little above 1,700 m. Young mountains such as the Himalayas and Alps are still sharp and rising.
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Which of the following factors are responsible for present crisis in the jute industry in India?
1. The decline in overseas market
2. Inadequately supply of raw jute
3. Stiff competition from synthetic packing materials
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Answer: A
All three factors are at work.
The overseas market for jute goods shrank as buyers turned to cheaper substitutes; the supply of raw jute has been irregular since much of the growing area went to East Bengal in 1947; and synthetic packing material - polypropylene sacking above all - is lighter and cheaper, which has been the heaviest blow of the three.
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Which of the following factors are responsible for India's failure to fully exploit the inland fisheries during the last five decades?
1. Silting and pollution of the inland water bodies
2. Deforestation in the catchment areas of the rivers
3. Lack of marketing facilities
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Answer: C
I and III - silting and pollution of the water bodies, and the lack of marketing facilities.
Industrial effluent and sewage have made many rivers and tanks unfit for fish, while silting has reduced their depth. Without cold storage and transport, the catch cannot reach distant markets, so there is little incentive to expand production.
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Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie - places famous for gold mines are located in:
Answer: A
Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie are in Australia.
They lie in Western Australia and were the sites of the gold rush of the 1890s. The Golden Mile at Kalgoorlie has been called the richest square mile of gold-bearing earth in the world, and the Super Pit still works there.
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Tadoba national park known for sheltering tiger panther and bear is located in:
Answer: B
Tadoba is in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra.
Tadoba-Andhari is the state's oldest and largest national park, notified in 1955, and is a tiger reserve under Project Tiger. Its teak and bamboo forest also shelters leopard, sloth bear and gaur.
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In Geography who propounded the theory of convectional current Hypothesis?
Answer: A
Arthur Holmes propounded the convection current hypothesis.
He proposed in 1928-29 that heat from radioactive decay drives slow convection in the mantle, and that the moving currents could carry continents apart. This supplied the mechanism Wegener's continental drift had lacked, and prepared the way for plate tectonics.
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Apatanis are the tribes found in:
Answer: D
The Apatanis are a tribe of Arunachal Pradesh.
They live in the Ziro valley of Lower Subansiri district and are known for a wet-rice cultivation that rears fish in the same fields and uses no draught animals - a system so efficient that UNESCO has considered the valley for World Heritage listing.
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