Geography Test-4 - NDA MCQ

India share 4,096 km long international border with Bangladesh. India shares longest border with Bangladesh

The Brahmaputra's source is the Chemayungdung Glacier, which covers the slopes of the Himalayas. Tsangpo is the other name in Tibet for Brahmaputra.

The largest herbarium in India is Indian Botanical Garden, Kolkata. It consists of 1000000 number of specimens.

At Barren Island, the only active volcano in India is situated in Andaman Islands. Barren Island is situated in the Andaman Sea, and lies about 138 km (86 mi) northeast of the territory's capital, Port Blair. It is the only active Volcano along the chain from Sumatra to Myanmar and also the only active volcano in India.

A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite. That is, it is in direct orbit of a star, and is massive enough for its gravity to crush it into a hydrostatically equilibrious shape (usually a spheroid), but has not cleared the neighborhood of other material around its orbit. There are 5 officially recognised dwarf planets in our solar system, they are Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.

Ghatampur Thermal Power Station is an upcoming coal-based thermal power plant located in Ghatampur in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh.

Natural Gas is a conventional source of energy and not a non-conventional source of energy.

Fold mountains are mountains formed from the folding of the earth's crust.Fold mountains are formed when two plates move together (a compressional plate margin). This can be where two continental plates move towards each other or a continental and an oceanic plate.The Himalayas is the example of Fold mountains.

The Indira Gandhi Canal is the longest canal in India and one of the largest irrigation project in the world. Indira Gandhi Canal is 649 km long and consists of Rajasthan feeder canal and Rajasthan main canal and runs through 167 km in Punjab and Haryana and remaining 492 km in Rajasthan.

Even after sunset, the air near the Earth’s surface continues to receive heat due to Terrestrial Radiation.

The tides in the sea are primarily due to the gravitational effect of the Moon on the Earth.

A valley formed by flowing water, is usually V-shaped. The exact shape will depend on the characteristics of the stream flowing through it.

Ambala separates the Ganges river network from the Indus river network and is surrounded by two rivers.

The corona is the outermost part of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is usually hidden by the bright light of the sun's surface.

One of the common forms of representing remote sensing data as information is in the form of thematic maps.

Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River and is near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

The Daily Weather Map of India is prepared and printed at Pune.

The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty on Substances that Deplete the Ozone. Monetreal protocol gradually eliminate the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances to limit their damage to the earth’s ozone layer. Chlorofluro carbon is one of the Ozone depleting substance.

The magnetic meridian is an equivalent imaginary line connecting the magnetic south and north poles. A compass needle will be parallel to the magnetic meridian.

The understory is the underlying layer of vegetation in a forest or wooded area, especially the trees and shrubs growing between the forest canopy and the forest floor.