Indian Geography Test 5

Answer – d

Explanation

In South India, the temperature is high enough to growtropical crops during any period in the yearprovided the soil moisture is available.Therefore, in this region same crops can begrown thrice in an agricultural year providedthere is sufficient soil moisture.

• Tropical cropsare rice, cotton, jute, jowar,bajra and tur.

Answer – b

Explanation

Answer – c

Explanation

In India, the dryland farming is largely confined to the regions having annual rainfall less than 75
cm. These regions grow hardy and drought resistant crops such as ragi, bajra,moong, gram and guar (fodder crops) and practise various measures of soil moisture conservation and rain water harvesting

Answer – b

Explanation

1. The country producesabout 11 per cent cereals of the world and ranksthird in production after China and U.S.A. So 1 is wrong.
2. The cereals occupy about 54 per cent of totalcropped area in India. So 2 is coorect.

India produces a variety of cereals, which are classified as fine grains (rice, wheat) and coarse grains (jowar, bajra, maize, ragi), etc

Answer – a

Explanation

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Answer – b

Thedecentralised sector includes cloth producedin handlooms (including Khadi) and The production of the organisedsector has drastically fallen from 81 per cent inthe mid-twentieth century to only about 6 percent in 2000. At present, the powerlooms onthe decentralised sector produce more than 59per cent and the handloom sector producesabout 19 per cent of all cotton cloth producedin the country. Hence 1 is correct.
In 1998, India had 1782 mills; of which, 192mills were in the public sector and 151 mills inthe cooperative sector. The largest number, thatis, 1,439 mills were in the private sector. Similar pattern exists today. Hence 2 is wrong.
Cotton is a “pure” raw material which doesnot lose weight in the manufacturing process.So other factors, like, power to drive the looms,labour, capital or market may determine thelocation of the industry.

Answer – a

1. Sugar industry has influential number of cooperative societies unlike cotton where private sector dominates. So 1 is correct.
2. Sugarcane is a weight-losing crop. The ratio ofsugar to sugarcane varies between 9 to 12 percent depending on its variety. Its sucrosecontent begins to dry during haulage after ithas been harvested from the field. Betterrecovery of sugar is dependent upon its beingcrushed within 24 hours of its harvesting.Sugar factories hence, are located within thecane producing regions.Maharashtra has emerged as a leadingsugar producer in the country and producesmore than one-third of the total production ofthe sugar in the country. Hence 2 is wrong.
3. The sugar industry is the second most importantagro-based industry in the country. India is thelargest producer of both sugarcane and canesugar and contributes about 8 per cent of thetotal sugar production in the world. India is not the highest producer of cotton. Hence 3 is wrong.

Answer – c

1. I is correct. West Bengal is still the highest producer of paper with Kolkatta being the major centre.
2. 2 is also correct.
3. The ideal raw material for production of paper pulp is softwood of coniferous forest, bamboos, grass and bagasse. So 3 is incorrect.

Answer – d

According to Central Water Commission, water availability in following rivers in Million hectre meter are –

Brahmaputra – 59.07

Ganga – 44.40

Godavari – 11.89

Mahanadi – 6.68

Cauvery – 2.06

Answer – a

The number of rainy days varies from 137 on the western coast to 10 in Rajasthan. The areal distribution of rainfall in India is further uneven as 8% of geographical area receives more than 200 cm rainfall, 20& between 125-200 cm, 42% between 75-125 cm, and 30% less than 75cm.

Answer – c

Refer to Atlas please. Your own Atlas will be more familiar to you than we posting one here.

Answer – a

• The black soils are generally clayey, deep and impermeable. They swell and become sticky when wet and shrink when dried. So, during the dry season, these soil develop wide cracks. Thus, there occurs a kind of ‘self ploughing’.
• Because of this character of slow absorption and loss of moisture, the black soil retains the moisture for a very long time, which helps the crops, especially, the rain fed ones, to sustain even during the dry season.

Answer – b

Refer to your own Atlas.

Answer – d

According to Central Water Commission, water availability in following rivers in Million hectre meter are –

Brahmaputra – 59.07

Ganga – 44.40

Godavari – 11.89

Mahanadi – 6.68

Cauvery – 2.06

Answer – a

• Mica is ferrous metallic mineral. So is iron.
• Mica and limestone are non-metallic minerals, let alone ferrous.

Answer – a

Answer – b

• During the cooling of the earth, gases andwater vapour were released from the interiorsolid earth. This started the evolution of thepresent atmosphere. The early atmospherelargely contained water vapour, nitrogen,carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia and verylittle of free oxygen. The process through whichthe gases were outpoured from the interior iscalled degassing.

Answer – a

• Brahmaputra receives numerous tributaries in its 750 km long journey through the Assam valley. Its major left bank tributaries are the Burhi Dihing and Dhansari (South) whereas the important right bank tributaries are the Subansiri, Kameng, Manas and Sankosh.
• The Subansiri which has its origin in Tibet, is an antecedent river.
• Make use of your own Atlas, you will remember better.

Answer – c

• The highest rainfall occurs along the west coast, on the Western Ghats, as well as in the sub-Himalayan areas is the northeast and the hills of Meghalaya. Here the rainfall exceeds 200 cm. In some parts of Khasi and Jaintia hills, the rainfall exceeds 1,000 cm.
• In the Brahmaputra valley and the adjoining hills, the rainfall is less then 200 cm, because of the leeward effect due to Meghalaya hills.
• Parts of the Peninsula, especially in Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra, Ladakh and most of western Rajasthan receive rainfall below 50 cm.