Indian Geography Test 4

Answer – A

• India’s territorial limit further extends towards the sea upto 12 nautical miles (about 21.9 km) from the coast. Hence statement 1 is correct.
• This has provided the country with a coastline of 6,100 km in the mainland and 7,517 km in the entire geographical coast of the mainland plus the island groups Andaman and Nicobar located in the Bay of Bengal and the Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea. Hence statement 2 is incorrect.

Answer – B

• The southern part of the country lies within the tropics and the northern part lies in the sub-tropical zone or the warm temperate zone. This location is responsible for large variations in land forms, climate, soil types and natural vegetation in the country. Hence statement 1 and 2 are correct.

Answer – D

• Ranchi, Bhopal, Gandhinagar, Aizwal, Agartala all lie close to Tropic of Cancer.

Answer – A

• Our southern boundary extends upto 6°45′ N latitude in the Bay of Bengal. Hence statement 1 is correct.
• The latitudinal and longitudinal extent of India, they are roughly about 30 degrees, whereas the actual distance measured from north to south extremity is 3,214 km, and that from east to west is only 2,933 km. Hence statement 2 is correct.

Answer – A

Solution: c)

Water sources were the lifeline of the Old Stone Age people and thus the communities lived and hunted close to water sources.

Some of these sites were near the places where the stone was easily available and where the people could make stone implements.

Several rock shelters and caves used by the Paleolithic people are scattered across the subcontinent. Some of the famous sites of Old Stone Age in India are:

• The Soan valley and Potwar Plateau on the northwest India.
• The Siwalik Hills on the north India.
• Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh.
• Adamgarh hill in Narmada valley.
• Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh and
• Attirampakkam near Chennai.

Solution: b)

• In the Old Stone Age, they used stone tools, hand-sized and flaked-off large pebbles for hunting animals. Stone implements are made of a hard rock known as quartzite. In the sites of Mesolithic Age, a different type of stone tools is found. These are tiny stone artifacts, often not more than five centimetres in size, and therefore called microliths.
• In Mesolithic period, there seems to have been a shift from big animal hunting to small animal hunting and fishing. The use of bow and arrow also began during this period. Also, there began a tendency to settle for longer periods in an area. Therefore, domestication of animals, horticulture and primitive cultivation started. Animal bones are found in these sites and these include dog, deer, boar and ostrich.

Solution: b)

Tarapur – Maharashtra

Narora – Uttar Pradesh

Solution: c)

Both the statements are correct.

Solution: a)

Winter monsoons do not cause rainfall as they move from land to the sea. It is because firstly, they have little humidity; and secondly, due to anti cyclonic circulation on land, the possibility of rainfall from them reduces. So, most parts of India do not have rainfall in the winter season.

Solution: b)

• Longitude is measured by imaginary lines that run around the Earth vertically (up and down) and meet at the North and South Poles. These lines are known as meridian The meridians of longitude converge at the poles. Unlike the parallels of latitude, longitudes are all equal in length.
• Altitude is the height of a place over sea level. Altitude has no correlation with latitude or longitude of a place.
• As longitudes converge towards the poles, the distance between the longitudes decreases pole wards.

Solution: a)

Solution: d)

Solution: b)

• Jelep La Passis a high mountain pass between Sikkim, India and Tibet, China. It is on a route that connects Lhasa to India.
• Bara Lacha La pass is a high mountain passin Zanskar range, connecting Lahaul district in Himachal Pradesh to Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, situated along the Leh–Manali Highway.
• Zoji Lais a high mountain pass in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Shipki La pass is located in Kinnaur districtin the state of Himachal Pradesh, India, and Tibet, China.

Solution: b)

• Teesta River originates from the Pahunri glacier. Brahmaputra originates in Angsi glacier. Teesta is a tributary of Brahmaputra. So statement 1 is wrong.
• But, Teesta flows through West Bengal and Sikkim, before going to Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh.
• Rangeet is a tributary of the Teesta River, which is the largest river in Sikkim. It also originates in Sikkim.

Solution: d)

• The Golden Quadrilateral(GQ) is a national highway network connecting many of the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India. It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south).
• The Golden Quadrilateral project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways.

Solution: a)

• Coal occurs in rock sequences mainly of two geological ages, namely Gondwana and tertiary deposits. About 80 per cent of the coal deposits in India is of bituminous type.
• The most important Gondwana coal fields of India are located in Damodar Valley.
• Jharia is the largest coal field followed by Raniganj.
• The brown coal or lignite occur in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

Solution: d)

• The tropical savanna climate is also called the tropical wet and dry climate. It is the climate experienced in savanna or tropical grassland regions of the world.
• These places are located near the equator, and they lie between the Southern and the Northern Tropics.
• The climate dominates many parts of the African continent, the northern region of South America, and parts of Asia such as India.
• The tropical savanna climate has alternating dry and wet seasons, hence its name. It shares some similar characteristics with the tropical monsoon climate, but it receives less annual rainfall as compared to the tropical monsoon climate.

Solution: b)

• A steppeis a dry, grassy plain. Steppes occur in temperate climates, which lie between the tropics and Polar Regions. Climate is continental with extremes of temperature. The summers are hot and the winters are cold. Steppes receive 25 to 50 centimetres (10-20 inches) of rain each year. The mid-latitude (Central Asian) grassland were once home to pastoral nomads like Kirgiz, Kazakh and Kalmuks.
• In Siberian Tundra, rainfall is scanty and climate is extreme. But the people were not nomadic herders. Their primary occupation is hunting or gathering. Hence option d is wrong
• In North American Prairies rainfall is scanty and climate is extreme. The farmers here use mechanised equipment and do wheat cultivation on large scale. Hence option c is wrong.

Solution: a)

Annual range of temperature is the difference between mean temperature of the warmest and the coldest months.

Statement 1 – The places in the interior of continent do not experience moderating effects of sea. Hence these places have extreme temperature.

Statement 4 – Annual precipitation is usually low in the interior areas.