Dul Hasti Project and Salal project are located at:
Answer: A
Both are on the Chenab.
Salal, commissioned in 1987, was India's first hydroelectric project on the river; Dulhasti followed in Kishtwar district. Both are run-of-the-river schemes, which is what the Indus Waters Treaty permits India on the western rivers.
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The Regur soil is:
Answer: C
Regur is black soil.
Formed by the weathering of the Deccan lava, it is clayey, retains moisture well, and cracks deeply when dry - which aerates it without ploughing. It is rich in lime, magnesia and potash but poor in nitrogen, and is the classic cotton soil.
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Which of the following groups of states has the largest deposits of iron ore?
Answer: B
Bihar and Orissa hold the largest iron ore deposits.
The Singhbhum-Keonjhar-Mayurbhanj belt, which straddles the two, holds high-grade haematite and feeds the steel plants of Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Rourkela. Since 2000 the Bihar portion lies in Jharkhand.
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The study of moon is called:
Answer: B
The study of the moon is selenology.
The name comes from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon. It covers the moon's origin, composition and geological history, and is sometimes called lunar geology.
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India’s first stock exchange, the Bombay Stock Exchange, was established in
Answer: A
The Bombay Stock Exchange was established in 1875.
It began as The Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association, formed by brokers who had been meeting under a banyan tree near the Town Hall. It is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, and was the first in India to be recognised under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956.
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Quartzite is metamorphosed from:
Answer: A
Quartzite is metamorphosed sandstone.
Heat and pressure fuse the quartz grains until the rock breaks across the grains rather than around them, making it extremely hard and resistant. Limestone under the same conditions gives marble, and shale gives slate.
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A group of populations of different species living in the same habitat and interacting with one another is called:
Answer: A
This is an ecological community.
A community is all the populations of different species that live in one place and interact - through predation, competition, pollination and so on. The community together with its physical environment makes an ecosystem, and the role a species plays within it is its niche.
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The inner planets include:
Answer: D
The inner planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
They lie inside the asteroid belt and are small, dense and rocky, having formed close enough to the sun for volatile compounds to be driven off. The four outer planets are gas and ice giants.
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Which of the following is a peninsular river of India?
Answer: C
The Krishna is a peninsular river.
It rises at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats and flows east to the Bay of Bengal. Peninsular rivers are rain-fed and seasonal, and flow in shallow valleys they cut long ago. The Gandak, Kosi and Sutlej are Himalayan and snow-fed, so they flow all year.
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The outer Himalayas lie between
Answer: A
The Outer Himalayas lie between the lesser Himalayas and the Indo-Gangetic plain.
Also called the Siwaliks, they are the youngest and lowest of the three ranges, 900 to 1,100 m high, built of sediment eroded from the ranges behind. The flat valleys between them and the lesser Himalayas are the duns, of which Dehradun is one.
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