The leading state in producing paper is
Answer: B
West Bengal is the leading paper-producing state in India, its mills concentrated along the Hooghly where coal, water and transport all came together.
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The largest fish exporting region in the world is
Answer: A
The north-east Atlantic is the world's largest fish-exporting region, its cold, shallow continental shelves and the meeting of warm and cold currents supporting exceptionally rich fishing grounds off Norway, Iceland and the British Isles.
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The island state of Australia is
Answer: C
Tasmania is Australia's island state, lying about 240 km south of the mainland across the Bass Strait. The others named are mainland states.
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The Himalayan mountain system belongs to which of the following?
Answer: D
The Himalayas are fold mountains, thrown up by the collision of the Indian plate with the Eurasian plate, which crumpled the sediments of the intervening Tethys Sea. They are still rising by a few millimetres a year.
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The habitats valuable for commercially harvested species are called
Answer: B
Sea grass beds are shallow coastal habitats that serve as nurseries and feeding grounds for many commercially harvested fish and shellfish. Their loss is a direct threat to those fisheries.
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The heavy clay soils that show significant expansion and contraction according to the presence or absence of moisture are called
Answer: B
Vertisols are heavy clay soils rich in swelling minerals such as montmorillonite. They expand when wet and shrink when dry, opening deep cracks - the black cotton soils of the Deccan are of this order.
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The Homolographic projection has the correct representation of
Answer: B
The homolographic (equal-area) projection preserves area, so regions are shown in their true relative size. It does so at the cost of shape, which becomes increasingly distorted toward the edges.
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The highest average salinity amongst the following seas is reported from
Answer: A
The Dead Sea has a salinity of about 34%, nearly ten times that of ordinary sea water. It lies in a closed basin with no outlet, so water leaves only by evaporation and the salts stay behind.
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India's major contacts with out-side world for the last two millennia have been by sea there-by earning the title for India:
Answer: A
India's long maritime contact with the wider world earned it the title mistress of the eastern seas. Its position, projecting into the Indian Ocean along the routes between the Middle East and South-East Asia, made this inevitable.
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The hot, dry wind on the east or leeward side of the Rocky mountains (North America) is called
Answer: A
The chinook is a warm, dry wind that descends the eastern flank of the Rockies, warming as it is compressed and capable of raising temperatures sharply in hours. The sirocco blows off the Sahara, the harmattan across West Africa and the loo over northern India.
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