Important Questions (Part - 6) - World Geography | Additional Study Material for UPSC PDF Download

Important Questions

Question 1. The Cauvery river of India is a good example of _____
 Answer: antecedent river.

Question 2. When the stream erodes the overlying cover of strata and flows on the exposed underlying strata in the same direction, such streams are called _____
 Answer: resequant.

Question 3. ‘Inversion of relief’ is a situation in which _____
 Answer: anticline becomes lower than adjoining syncline.

Question 4.    The lava of volcanoes sometimes fills the valleys so that these valleys appear as ridges. Davis calls it _____
 Answer: inversion of topogra phy.

Question 5. The drainage pattern which give an impression of a tree is _____
 Answer: pinnate.

Question 6. The rivers like, Godavari, Krishna and Cauvery have drainage pattern as _____
 Answer: dendritic.

Question 7. Dendritic pattern is found on a land with _____
 Answer: rock of similar resista nce.

Question 8. The streams draining the lesser Himalayas make a____
 Answer: parallel pattern.

Question 9. A series of rapids are called _____
 Answer: cascade.

Question 10. ‘Discordant junction’ are formed where _____
 Answer: two hanging valleys meet.

Question 11. ‘Inverted streams’ are _____
 Answer: after the river capture, the water which moved in other direction begins to move in the direction of the capturing stream.

Question 12. ‘River Meandering is _____
 Answer: when the stream flows in a plain and widens its valley.

Question 13. ‘Cuesta’ occurs in the valley _____
 Answer: in the old age of a river.

Question 14. The ‘Yazoo’ river is a good example of _____
 Answer: deffered junction.

Question 15. The ‘Mississipi delta’ is a good example of _____
 Answer: Bird’s foot-delta.

Question 16. The Elbe, Ob, and Vistula rivers have deltas of _____
 Answer: Esuarine.

Question 17. ‘Bogas” are associated with _____
 Answer: limestone region.

Question 18. Who for the first time gave the description of cycle-system in a Karst region?
 Answer: Cvijic.

Question 19. The waves of equal height go on braking at an equal distance from the cost and change into _____
 Answer: surfs.

Question 20. ‘Sponting horn’ is a name given to _____
 Answer: blow holes.

Question 21. ‘Solifluction’ is _____
 Answer: the flow of ice layer in semi-frozen conditions.

Question 22. ‘Periglacial process’ is _____
 Answer: The glacial process in Tundra, a little distant from the ice-sheets.

Question 23. ‘Ablation’ refers to _____
 Answer: a situation in which the frontal parts of the glaciers are destroyed by melting and the glaciers appear to be retreating.

Question 24. ‘Dust well’ is found in _____
 Answer: glacier region.

Question 25. ‘Nunatak’ is _____
 Answer: the rock peaks surrounded by ice.

Question 26. ‘Fosse’ is _____
 Answer: a depression near the sides of glaciers.

Question 27. In the Rouch Moutonnes or sheep rocks, plucking action is the main activity on the _____
 Answer: descending side.

Question 28. The phrase ‘fluvio - glacial erosion’ refers to _____
 Answer: the melting of the mouth of glacier followed by a current of water flow causing erosion.

Question 29.  ‘Erratics’ are _____
 Answer: such pebbles which are dissimilar to those of the bedrock.

Question 30. ‘Hamada’ is a/an _____
 Answer: erosional feature.
 
Question 31. The horns of a dune point towards the direction opposite to that of the blowing wind are _____
 Answer: Parabolic dunes.

Question 32. Fore dunes are _____
 Answer: Ridge like deposits of wind borne sand formed along the coast of sea or lakes.

Question 33. The space between the dunes is called _____
 Answer: glassis.

Question 34.The Wular lake of Kashmir is _____
 Answer: an ox-bow lake.

Question 35. The ‘colair lake’, an example of river lake, is formed between _____
 Answer: two deltas of the Godawari river in India.

Question 36. ‘Guyots’ are _____
 Answer: mountains found on oceans floors with flat summits.

Question 37. The Boroadest continental shelves are found in _____
 Answer: Arctic ocean.

Question 38. ‘Dogger Banks’ and ‘Grand Banks’ are situated on the _____
 Answer: continental shelf.

Question 39. Satellites photos & Demos belong to _____
 Answer: Mass.

Question 40. An example of a cold planet is _____
 Answer: Jupiter.

Question 41. A light year is a unit of _____
 Answer: Distance.

Question 42. The most abundant power resources occur in _____
 Answer: Sedimentary rocks.

Question 43. ‘Weathering’ is affected most of _____
 Answer: Climate.

Question 44. The process of abrasion involves _____
 Answer: Grinding away the coarse particle.

Question 45. Coral reefs are landforms produced by _____
 Answer: Organisms.

Question 46. Mass wasting is mainly caused by the action of _____
 Answer: the force of gravity.

Question 47. Valleys are deepened by _____
 Answer: Erosion.

Question 48. Alluvial fans are formed _____
 Answer: In the foot hill region.

Question 49. Predominant in the arid region is _____
 Answer: Deflation.

Question 50. Lagoons are found _____
 Answer: between the coast & off sea bar.