The Chambal Valley Project is a joint venture of:
Answer: C
It is a joint venture of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
The Chambal valley scheme comprises the Gandhi Sagar, Rana Pratap Sagar, Jawahar Sagar and Kota barrage, and supplies power and irrigation to both states, which share the cost and benefit equally.
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The radiant energy received by the earth and its atmosphere from the sun is called:
Answer: A
This is insolation, short for incoming solar radiation.
The earth intercepts only about a two-billionth of the sun's output, and of that roughly half reaches the surface, the rest being reflected or absorbed by the atmosphere. Insolation varies with latitude, season and cloud, and is the ultimate driver of climate.
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Which is known as thunder cloud?
Answer: D
The cumulonimbus is the thundercloud.
It grows vertically from near the ground to the tropopause, sometimes 12 km or more, spreading into an anvil at the top where it meets the stable stratosphere. Its violent updraughts separate charge, producing lightning, hail and heavy rain.
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Which of the following groups accounts for over 90 per cent of India's annual coal production?
Answer: A
Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal account for over 90 per cent of coal production.
The Gondwana coalfields - Jharia, Bokaro, Raniganj and Talcher - lie in the Damodar and Mahanadi valleys within those states, and hold nearly all India's good coking coal. Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar in 2000.
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Which of the following Indian biosphere reserves are on the UNESCO World Network?
Answer: D
All of them are on the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
Nilgiri was the first Indian reserve admitted, in 2000, followed by Gulf of Mannar, Sundarban, Nanda Devi, Nokrek, Pachmarhi, Simlipal and others. India has eighteen biosphere reserves in all, of which twelve are on the international network.
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Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is located in:
Answer: C
The Indira Gandhi Zoological Park is at Visakhapatnam.
Set in the Kambalakonda reserve forest between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal, it is the largest zoo in Andhra Pradesh, opened in 1977.
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The second zone of the interior of the earth extending from 30 kilometer to 2900 kilometer depth is:
Answer: B
This zone is the mantle.
It lies between the crust and the outer core, extends from about 30 km to 2,900 km, and makes up some 84 per cent of the earth's volume. It is solid silicate rock that flows plastically over geological time, and its slow convection drives plate motion.
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Between the valley of the Narmada river in the north and the Tapti in the south lies
Answer: A
The Satpura range lies between them.
It runs east-west for about 900 km through Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, with the Narmada rift to its north and the Tapti rift to its south. Dhupgarh at Pachmarhi, 1,350 m, is its highest point.
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The Himalayas were uplifted from the:
Answer: D
The Himalayas were uplifted from the Tethys geosyncline.
The Tethys was the sea between the drifting Indian plate and Eurasia. As the two converged, the thick sediments accumulated on its floor were compressed and folded upward, which is why marine fossils are found near the summits.
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Which plateau lies between the Aravalli and the Vindhya ranges?
Answer: A
The Malwa plateau lies between them.
It occupies western Madhya Pradesh and south-eastern Rajasthan, bounded by the Aravallis to the north-west and the Vindhyas to the south. Built of Deccan lava, it is drained north by the Chambal and Betwa into the Yamuna.
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