SSC CGL Previous Year Questions: Geography - 8 - SSC CGL MCQ

The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. BSP is India's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products.

Leaders in sesame production countries in decreasing order are India>China>Nigeria>Myanmar.

.(d) South Andaman and Little Andaman

Shimla is in Himachal pradesh

Chambal - Chambal River originates from the Singar Chouri peak on the northern slopes of the Vindhyan escarpment, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) West-South-West of Mhow in Indore District, Madhya Pradesh. The main tributaries of Chambal include the Banas and Mej rivers on the left and the Parbati, Kali Sindh and Shipra rivers on the right. The major left bank tributaries of Chambal River are Bamni, Banas, Kural, Mej etc. while the major right bank tributaries of Chambal River are Kali Sindh, Parvan, Parvati etc.
Son - Son River of central India is the second largest of the Ganges' southern tributaries after Yamuna River.
The Sone originates near Amarkantak in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh. Its chief tributaries are the Rihand, Banas, Kanhar and the North Koel.
Manas - Manas River is a transboundary river in the Himalayan foothills between southern Bhutan and India. It is named after Manasa, the serpent god in Hindu mythology. The Manas river is a major tributary of Brahmaputra river.

The total population divided by available arable land area is referred to as population density.

Insolation is the solar radiation that reaches the earth's surface. It is measured by the amount of solar energy received per square centimeter per minute.

Black Sea, Caspian Sea and Dead Sea are land-locked.

Damodar Valley Corporation, commonly known as DVC, was incorporated on July 7, 1948 by an Act of the Constituent Assembly of India (Act No. XIV of 1948).
It was the oldest versatile river basin project of sovereign India. Damodar Valley Corporation has been planned like the Tennessee Valley Authority of the USA.

Petrology is the branch of geology that studies the origin, composition, distribution and structure of rocks.

Rosewood - Deciduous
Bushes - Dry Forests
Birch - Alpine forests
Sundari tree - Mangroove Forests

The eastern coast of India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, remains relatively dry during the south-west monsoon period. This is because the Tamil Nadu coast lies in the rain-shadow area of the Arabian Sea current and is parallel to the Bay of Bengal current.

Seen from space, the majority of the Earth's surface is covered by oceans - that makes up 71% of the surface of the Earth. Deserts actually make up 33%, or 1/3rd of the land's surface area.

The Indus River is the longest and most important river in Pakistan and one of the most important rivers on the Indian subcontinent. Originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a 3200 kilometer (2000 mile) course, through Ladakh district in Kashmir and Northern Areas, flowing through the North in a southerly direction along the entire length of country, and merges into the Arabian Sea near Pakistan's port city Karachi.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of Earth 's atmosphere. is made up of approximately 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other gases, which include carbon dioxide, methane, neon, krypton, argon, helium, and hydrogen. The troposphere contains approximately 99% of the water vapour in the earth's entire atmosphere.

The Konkan Railway travels 738 kilometers through the states of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka, starting just after the Roha railway station (75 km south of Panvel in the suburbs of Mumbai) in Maharashtra and ending at the Thokur railway station near Mangalore in southern Karnataka.

Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus Cinnamomum.
Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, breakfast cereals, snackfoods, tea and traditional foods.

The atmospheric air is held to the earth by gravity. It is made up mainly of nitrogen (78.1%). It also has plentiful oxygen (20.9%) and small amounts of argon (0.9%), carbon dioxide (0.035%), water vapor, and other gases.

Rihand Dam is a concrete gravity dam located at Pipri in Sonbhadra District in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located on the Rihand River, a tributary of the Son River. The catchment area of this dam extends over Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh whereas it supplies irrigation water in Bihar located downstream of the river.

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

Eucalyptus is known as Nilgiri in Hindi, after the hills on which the tree is mainly grown.

Loktak Lake, also called the only floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis (heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India.

Chennai is the city which receives highest cosmic radiation.

A tsunami, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

The maximum biodiversity is found in tropical forest.
Tropical forests are often thought of as evergreen rainforests and moist forests, however in reality only up to 60% of tropical forest is rainforest.

Indian Standard Time (IST) is the time obser ved throughout India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30.
Indian Standard Time is calculated on the basis of 82.5'E longitude, in Mirzapur (Amravati Chauraha), Uttar Pradesh, which is nearly on the corresponding longitude reference line.

The Sun is the nearest star to the earth which is 0.000058 light year far from earth. Poxima  Century is the second nearest star having distance of 4.2421 light years where as Alpha Century is the third nearest with distance of 4.3650 light years from Earth.

The Sundarbans is a natural region comprising southern Bangladesh and a part in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world.

Sumatra region was a victim of massive earthquake in 2004.

Duronto Express trains were introduced in 2009-10 in India. The first Duronto ran between Sealdah and New Delhi. Duronto express trains are a long-distance nonstop superfast express trains.