Which of the following crops is regarded as a plantation crop?
Answer: A
Coconut is a plantation crop.
Plantation crops are perennial, grown on large estates for the market rather than for subsistence, and usually need processing before sale - tea, coffee, rubber, coconut and spices. Cotton, sugarcane and rice are seasonal field crops.
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In India the percentage of population below poverty line is:
Answer: A
Less than 30 per cent of India's population is below the poverty line.
The Tendulkar estimate put it at 21.9 per cent in 2011-12, down from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05. The figure depends heavily on where the line is drawn, which is why successive committees - Lakdawala, Tendulkar, Rangarajan - have produced different numbers.
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The watershed between India and Myanmar is formed by
Answer: A
The watershed is formed by the Naga hills.
They run along the India-Myanmar border, and the crest divides the rivers flowing west into the Brahmaputra from those flowing east into the Chindwin. The Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills lie within Meghalaya, well inside India.
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How many major ports are there in India?
Answer: B
India has thirteen major ports.
They are Kandla (Deendayal), Mumbai, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mormugao, New Mangalore, Cochin, Kamarajar, Chennai, Tuticorin, Visakhapatnam, Paradip, Kolkata-Haldia and Port Blair. Major ports are administered by the Centre; the roughly 200 minor ports are with the states.
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The most important layer for all biological activity in the atmosphere is:
Answer: A
The troposphere is the layer of biological importance.
It holds about 75 per cent of the atmosphere's mass and nearly all its water vapour, and all weather occurs in it. It extends to about 18 km at the Equator and 8 km at the poles, and temperature falls through it at roughly 6.5 °C per kilometre.
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Among the following, the leading producer of wind power is
Answer: B
Germany is the leading wind-power producer among these.
It has led Europe in installed wind capacity for decades, with large offshore farms in the North and Baltic Seas. Worldwide, China now has by far the largest capacity, followed by the United States.
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Tadoba National Park, known for sheltering tiger, panther and bear, is in
Answer: D
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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Earthquakes waves are of two types namely:
Answer: A
They are body waves and surface waves.
Body waves travel through the interior and are of two kinds: the faster longitudinal P waves, which pass through solid and liquid alike, and the transverse S waves, which cannot cross the liquid outer core. Surface waves travel along the crust, arrive last and do most of the damage.
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Where is Silicon Valley located in?
Answer: A
Silicon Valley is in the United States.
It lies in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, around San Jose and Palo Alto. The name, coined in 1971, refers to the silicon chip makers who first clustered there.
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The southernmost point of peninsular India, that is, Kanyakumari, is
Answer: D
Kanyakumari lies north of the Equator.
It is at about 8°4′N - north of the Equator, and south of the Tropic of Cancer, which crosses India at 23°30′N. The Tropic of Capricorn is in the southern hemisphere and does not touch India.
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