SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: Geography - 6 - SSC CGL MCQ

The highest peak in eastern ghats is Jinjhagada peak with a height of 1690m. Next Is ArmaKoda (1680m),then Deomali (1672m), then GaliKonda (1643 meters),and thenShevaroy hill (1628 meters). Height of Mahendragiri peak is 1501 meters.

India is the largest jute producing (87.78 Lakh Bales of 180kg each in 2013-14) country in the world.

South Atlantic Current is an eastward ocean current, fed by the Brazil Current. That fraction of it which reaches the African coast feeds the Benguela Current.
It is continuous with the northern edge of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

The glaciers are predominantly present in Antarctica.

Panchmarhi a beautiful hill station in Madhya Pradesh is known as Queen of Satpura because of its mystic beauty, it is a known destination for Bollywood film shootings.

National Highway 2, commonly referred as Delhi– Kolkata Road, is a busy Indian National Highway that runs through the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. It constitutes a major portion of the historical Grand Trunk. Road along with NH 91 and NH 1 in India

Drip irrigation is a form of irrigation that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of many different plants, either onto the soil surface or directly onto the root zone, through a network of valves, pipes, tubing, and emitters. Drip irrigation was developed in Israel by Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu.

The Narmada, Tapi, and Damodar rivers in India flow through rift valleys: 

An Isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side.

A topographic map is a type of map char acter ized by large scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour  lines in modern mapping, but historically using a variety of methods.

Magnetic declination is the angle between compass north (the direction the north end of a compass needle points) and true north (the direction along the earth’s surface towards the geographic North Pole.

1. Major irrigation project: above 10,000 hectares.
2. Medium irrigation project: between 2,000 - 10,000 hectares.
3. Minor irrigation project: below 2000 hectares.

It was started by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970s. The result was that India became the largest producer of Milk and Milk Products. Operation flood is called White Revolution of India.

Ozone layer, also called ozonosphere,  region of the upper atmosphere, between roughly 15 and 35 km (9 and 22 miles) above Earth's surface, containing relatively high concentrations of ozone molecules (O₃).

A dendritic drainage pattern refers to the pattern formed by the streams, rivers, and lakes in a particular drainage basin. It usually looks like the branching pattern of tree roots and it mainly develops in regions underlain by homogeneous material.

Plimsoll line is not a line of demarcation between two countries.

A halophyte is a plant that grows in waters of high salinity, coming into contact with saline water through its roots or by salt spray, such as in saline semi-deserts, mangrove swamps, marshes and sloughs, and seashores. An example of a halophyte is the salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora (smooth cordgrass).

Azotobacter is a gen us of usually motile, oval or spherical bacteria that form thick-walled cysts and may produce large quantities of capsular slime.

Extratropical cyclones, sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones or wave cyclones, are a group of cyclones defined as synoptic scale low pressure weather systems that occur in the middle latitudes of the Earth (outside the tropics) not having tropical characteristics, and are connected with fronts and horizontal gradients in temperature and dew point otherwise known as "baroclinic zones".

The most famous and tallest waterfall in Yosemite National Park is Yosemite Falls. It is dropping a total of 2,425 feet (739 m) from the top of the upper fall to the base of the lower fall.

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant was separated from SAIL and RINL was made the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant in April 1982. It is also known as Vizag Steel plant.

Srinagar and Kanyakumari are connected by the North South corridor.

Kalahari desert is present in Africa while Atacama Desert is in South America. Thar Desert is in Asia and Great Victoria is in Australia.

Godavari is the longest river of peninsular India. From its source to the Eastern Ghats, the Godavari River flows through gentle, somewhat monotonous terrain, along the way receiving the Darna, Purna, Manjra, Pranhita, and Indravati rivers. Upon entering the Eastern Ghats region, however, the river flows between steep and precipitous banks, its width contracting until it flows through a deep cleft only 600 feet (180 metres) wide, known as the Gorge.

The Himalayan Mountain Range is an example of fold mountain.They are known as fold mountains because the mountains extend for 2500 km in length in a series of parallel ridges or folds and consist of three folds namely Himadri, Himachal, Shiwalik.

Gulf Stream is a warm ocean current. It flows along the North America and drifts towards western Europe, thus raising the temperature of western coast considerably.

Rech arging of ground water is the main advantage of rain water harvesting. Rainwater harvesting provides an independent water supply during regional water restrictions and in developed countries is often used to supplement the main supply. It provides water when there is a drought, can help mitigate flooding of lowlying areas, and reduces demand on wells which may enable ground water levels to be sustained.

High Yielding Variety (HYV) seeds played vital role in the progress of agriculture. They are considered as `miracle seeds'. The high yielding programme was launched in the Kharif season of 1966 in selected areas having assured rainfall. Seed is the basic and crucial input for attaining sustained growth in agricultural production.

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the tea plant, Camellia sinensis. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world.