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Questions : Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R). Select your answer from the codes given below:
Assertion (A) :
The land surface is heated more quickly and to a greater extent than the water surface when subjected to an equal amount of insolation.
Reason (R) :
The land is opaque while water is transparent to solar radiation.

(a) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not correct explanation of (A).

(b) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is correct explanation of (A).

(c) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

(d) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (b)

Land surface is heated more quickly and to a greter extent than the water surface when subjected to equal amount of insalation because land is opaque while water is transparent to solar radiation.

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Question : 1

Bhabar is an example of

a) Piedmont plain

b) Panplane

c) Deltaic plain

d) Till plain

Answer: (a)

Bhabar is an example of piedmont plain.

Question : 2

The Chinese river known as yellow river is

a) Sikiang

b) Hwang-Ho

c) Mekong

d) Yangtse-Kiang

Answer: (b)

The Yellow River or Huang He, formerly spelt Hwang Ho is the second-longest river in China after the Yangtze and the sixth-longest in the world.

The Yellow River is called 'the cradle of Chinese civilization.” Hwang Ho is called the Yellow River because of the high volumes of sediment in it.

Question : 3

Grassland is called ‘Pampas’ in

a) South America

b) Africa

c) The USA

d) United Kingdom

Answer: (a)

The Pampas are fertile South American lowlands, covering more than 750,000 km2 that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba, Chubut, most of Uruguay, and the southernmost Brazilian state, Rio Grande do Sul.

This area is also one of the distinct physiography provinces of the larger Paraná-Paraguay Plain division. These plains contain unique wildlife because of the different terrains around them.

Question : 4

Bermuda Triangle extends up to which of the following places?

  1. Southern Florida
  2. Puerto Rico
  3. Hawaii Islands .
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:

a) 1 and 2

b) 1, 2 and 3

c) 1 and 3

d) 2 and 3

Answer: (a)

Bermuda Triangle is a strange and mysterious place in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It is roughly the shape of a triangle. The triangle extends upto south Florida, Pruto Rico and Bermuda Island.

Question : 5

Consider the following pairs : Region Country

  1. Chechnya : Russian Federation
  2. Darfur : Mali
  3. Swat Valley : Iraq .
Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?

a) 2 and 3 only

b) 1 only

c) 1, 2 and 3

d) 1 and 3 only

Answer: (b)

The Chechen Republic is a federal subject (a republic) of Russia. Darfur is a region in western Sudan. Swat is a valley and an administrative district in Pakistan.

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