Map Based Test - 5 - UPSC MCQ

The continent that has occupied the largest area in the equatorial belt is Africa.

Palm Islands - Dubai

Sagarmatha- Eastern Nepal

South Atlantic - Island of Saint Helena

The lake is in the process of being identified under Ramsar Convention as a wetland site of international importance. This will be the first trans boundary wetland in south Asia under the convention.

MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS

1. Dome A

2. Peak 3938

3. Dome F

4. Adams streams

5. Aiken Creek

6. Alph river

7. Lawson creek

8. Onyx river

Only the northernmost and the southernmost fringes of the continent have a Mediterranean climate.

Because of this geographical situation, Africa is a hot continent as the solar radiation intensity is always high.

The line passes through Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Australia and French Polynesia, Clipping New Caledonia , Fiji, Tonga and the Cook Islands before landfall at Pitcairn .

The tropics experience little difference between seasons s o, between the Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer (which is an equal distance north of the equator), life is generally warm and sunny.

Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, New Zealand, Maldives, the Bahamas, Greece , Hawaii, the Polynesian islands and Azores are the well known archipelagos.

The largest archipelagic state in the world by area and population is Indonesia.

a) The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting East Africa. Members of this ethnicity primarily reside on the Swahili coast, in an area encompassing the Zanzibar archipelago, littoral Kenya, the Tanzania seaboard, and northern Mozambique.

c) "Negro" was also used of the peoples of West Africa in old maps labelled Negroland, an area stretching along the Niger River. From the 18th century to the late 1960s, negro (later capitalized) was considered to be the proper English-language term for people of black African origin.

It is a demarcation line that The entire Sino-Indian border (including the western LAC, the small undisputed section in the centre, and the McMahon Line in the east) is 4,056 km (2,520 mi) long and traverses five Indian states/territories: Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh.separates Indian-controlled territory from Chinese controlled territory.

The entire Sino-indian border (including western LAC, small undisputed section section in centre and McMahon Line in east) traverses through 5 Indian states J & K, Uttarakhand , Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh

West of Duncan passage is the Bay of Bengal and East is the Arabian Sea.

Small Islands & Islets lie along the passage are North Cinque Island, South Cinque Island, Passage island, The Sisters, North Brother island & South Brother Island.

Located between the Nilgiri Hills to the north and Anaimalai Hills to the south, it is about 20 miles (32 km) wide and straddles the Kerala–Tamil Nadu border, serving as a major communication route between those two states. Highways and rail lines through the gap connect Palghat in Kerala with Coimbatore and Pollachi in Tamil Nadu.

• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu (also called Netaji Setu) is the longest bridge over the river Kathajodi, a tributary of river Mahanadi.

• It is the first 3 lane bridge in Odisha and reduces the distance between Bubaneswar and Cuttack.

• It connects Belleview point near Judicial Academy in Cuttack to Trishulia.

1. Chhatrapati Shivaji Vastu Museum - Mumbai

2. Shankar's International Dolls Museum - Delhi

3. Salar Jung Museum - Hyderabad

4. Calico Museum - Ahmedabad