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GEOGRAPHY
1. Grasslands found in Africa :
A. Steppes
B. Prairies
C. Savanna
D. Kilimanjaro
Ans. C Savanna
• Grasslands found in North America - Prairies
• Highest mountain peak in Africa - Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tansania)
• Place in South Africa famous for best quality diamonds - Kimberly
• Grasslands found in South America - Pampas
• Grassland extended over Europe and Asia - Steppes
• Grasslands found in Australia-Downs
2. Which river valley project is constructed across the river Sutlej?
A. Chambal
B. Damodar Valley
C. Hirakud
D. Bhakra Nangal
Ans. D Bhakra Nangal Project
• Highest gravity dam in the world - Bhakra Nangal Project
• India’s biggest multi-purpose river valley project - Bhakra Nangal Project
• The multipurpose project involving Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan - Chambal
• The Gandhi Sagar Dam in Madhya Pradesh and Kota Barrage and Jawahar Sagar Dam in Rajasthan
are the part of Chambal project.
• The longest dam in India - Hirakkud (Odisha)
• The Hirakkud project (1957) is constructed across the river - Mahanadi
• ‘Sorrow of Bengal - Damodar
• The Damodar river flows through the Chotanagpur Plateau
• ‘The Damodar valley is executed on the model of the famous ___________authority of USA
Tennessee Valley
3. The warm and dry westerly wind that blows through the eastern slope of Rocky Mountains.
A. Loo
B. Foehn
C. Chinook
D. Mistral
Ans. C Chinook
• Chinook is also known as Snow-eater.
• Hot winds which blows in USA and Canada - Chinook
• The hot and dry wind which blows over plains of India and Pakistan - Loo
• The wind that causes sun-stroke - Loo
• A strong wind which develops on the leeward side of the Alps - Foehn
• A wind that hastens the ripening of grapes and helps to melt snow rapidly in the Northern side of
France - Foehn
• The cold wind that blow from central France and the Alps to Mediterranean - Mistral
4. Projection useful for preparing navigation charts :
A. Lambert’s
B. Bonne’s
C. Mercator’s
D. Mollweide’s
Ans. C Mercator’s
• Projection used to show the direction of winds for weather maps, oceancurrents - Mercator’s projection
• The projection useful for distribution maps of the entire world - Mollweide’s projection
• The density of population, crop distribution and forests relating to the whole world can be represented
in Mollweide’s projection.
• Projection used for the distribution maps of polar areas - Lambert’s projection
• Projection ideal for mapping large countries like India - Bonne’s projection
5. The innermost region of the earth
A. Crust
B. Mantle
C. Core
D. Magma
Ans. C Core
• The outermost layer of the earth - Crust
• The outerpart of the earth crust is made up of - Sial
• Sial is composed of - Silicon and Aluminium
• Sima is composed of - Silicon and Magnesium
• Continents are made up of Sial
• Oceanbeds are made up of Sima
• Below the crust is mantle
• The innermost part of the earth - Core
• The innercore is composed of NiFe (Nickel and Iron)
• The core is about 3,475 km in radius
6. ‘Gobi’ desert is in
A. Africa
B. South America
C. Mangolia & China
D. Russia & China
Ans. C Mangolia & China
• Largest desert in Asia - Gobi desert
• The coldest desert in Asia - Gobi
• Kalhari desert is situated at - Botswana
• Largest desert in the world - Sahara
• Sahara desert is situated at - North Africa
• Continent without desert - Australia
• Atacama desert on Chile is the driest place on Earth.
7. Smallest Scandinavian country
A. Norway
B. Swedan
C. Finland
D. Denmark
Ans. D Denmark
• Scandinavian countries - Norway, Swedan, Finland, Iceland, Denmark
• Scandinavian countries are also known as Nordic countries
• Smallest Scandinavian country - Denmark
• Greenland is under the control of Denmark
• Largest Nordic country - Swedan
• Largest consumer of milk products - Finland
• Nordic country which has no snakes - Iceland
• Oldest parliament in the world - Althing (Iceland)
8. Tata Iron and Steel Company is located in the state of ___________
A. West Bengal
B. Karnataka
C. Jharkhand
D. Chattisgarh
Ans. C Jharkhand
• Viswesaraiya Iron and Steel Company is located at - Karnataka
• Durapur Steelplant is located at - West Bengal
• The steelplant located in the Durg district of Chattisgarh - The Bhilai Steelplant
• Bokaro Steel plant is located at Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand.
• Expansion of SAIL - Steel Authority of India Limited
9. The person who put forward the “Continental Drift theory”?
A. Nicolaus copernicus
C. Maurice Ewing
B. Ptolemy
D. Alfred Wegner
Ans. D Alfred Wegner
• Geocentric model was introduced by - Ptolemy
• The person who studied about the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Maurice Ewing
• The circumference of the earth was calculated by - Erathosthenis
• Who found that planets are revolving in elliptical orbits - Johannes Kepler
• Who put, forward the theory of ‘Solar system’ - Copper Nicus
10. Asthenosphere is the part of
A. Crust
B. Core
C. Mantle
D. Troposphere
Ans. C Mantle
• The Mantle is the layer between crust and the core.
• Mantle is separated from the core by Gutenberg-Wichert discontinuity.
• Mohorovicic discontinuity separates crust from mantle
• Lithosphere is the outerportion of the earth which includes the crust and the upper mantle.
• Mantle is largely composed of Silicon and Magnesium.