UPSC: Geography NCERT Based Test- 1 - UPSC MCQ

• The rhythmic rise and fall of ocean water twice in a day are called a tide. The strong gravitational pull exerted by the sun and the moon on the earth's surface cause the tides. It is high tides when water covers much of the shore by rising to its highest level.

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  It is low tides when waterfalls to its lowest level and recedes from the shore.

There are two UNESCO World Heritage Sites on IR viz. the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mountain railways of India. Mountain railways of India is not contiguous, but consists of three separate railway lines located in different parts of the country viz. the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway; the Nilgiri Mountain Railway; and the Kalka-Shimla Railway.

Explanation:

A: This statement is related to the dichotomy of Human Geography because it discusses the concept of achieving social and environmental well-being through the study of human geography.

B: This statement is related to the dichotomy of Human Geography because it discusses the widening gap between resources and population, which is a key concern in human geography.

C: This statement is related to the dichotomy of Human Geography because it mentions Sir Robert Malthus, who was a key scholar in the field of human geography and raised concerns about social justice.

D: This statement is not related to the dichotomy of Human Geography because it does not provide any information or discussion about the concepts or concerns of human geography. It simply combines statements A and B, which are both related to the dichotomy of Human Geography.

Therefore, the correct answer is D.

1. Social/Cultural

2. Population and Settlement

3. Historical

4. Political

5. Economic

• Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) stretch which connects the four metro cities of India (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai). One of the achievements of the Indian government is the 5846-km Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway.

• It is designated as one of the longest highways in the world.

• The Thar Desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of rolling sandhills on the Indian subcontinent.

• It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan.

• The Thar Desert covers some 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of territory. The irrigated Indus River plain borders it to the west, the Punjab Plain to the north and northeast, the Aravalli Range to the southeast, and the Rann of Kachchh to the south.

• High tides help in navigation.

• They raise the water level close to the shores. This helps the ships to arrive at the harbour more easily. The high tides also help in fishing.

• Much more fish come to the shore during the high tides. The rise and fall of the water due to tides is being used to generate electricity in some places. Tides also help in developing marine life. Tidal pools between intertidal areas are used to grow various seaweeds.

• The longest border is shared by Bangladesh which is 4096.70 Km (2,545-mile).

• India-Bangladesh border is the fifth longest border in the World. Indian states that share borders with Bangladesh are: Assam, West Bengal, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Tripura.

• West Bengal Indian state shares the longest border between India and Bangladesh. Its length is 2216.70 km. Assam Indian state shares the smallest border between India and Bangladesh. Its length is 263 km.

A peninsula is a land almost surrounded by water but is connected to the mainland on one side.

• Nature of terrain and the level of economic development are the main determinants of density of roads.

• Construction of roads is easy and cheaper in the plain areas while it is difficult and costly in hilly and plateau areas. Therefore, not only the density but also the quality of roads is relatively better in plains as compared to roads in high altitude areas, rainy and forested regions.

• Density of roads (length of roads per 100 square km of area) varies from only 12.14 km in Jammu and Kashmir to 517.77 km in Kerala with a national average of 142.68 km in 2011) The density of road is high in most of the northern states and major southern states.

• It is low in the Himalayan region, north-eastern region. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan despite having high populations have low road density. Thus, population is not a major determinant.

1. Waves

2. Tides

3. Current

Precipitation is not the phenomena that occur in the ocean. Basically, it occurs in the atmosphere.

• Jute is known as the Golden Fibre. That's an appropriate name for the yellowish-brown, shiny, natural vegetable fibre produced from genus Corchorus plants.

• It occupies a place next to cotton in the amount produced and the variety of uses. Due to its inherent high tensile strength, low extensibility, moderate moisture retention and better breathability, jute is used extensively in agricultural bulk packaging.

Plate tectonics, theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth's outer shell—the lithosphere—that revolutionized Earth sciences by providing a uniform context for understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes, and earthquakes as the evolution of Earth's surface and reconstructing its past continents and oceans.

• All outer planets are made up of gases and hence called gaseous planets or Jovian planets while inner planets are made up of rocks mostly and hence called terrestrial planets.

• All outer planets rotate faster than the Sun as they are farther away from the Sun and experience the weaker gravitational force of the Sun.

• In agricultural economics, intensive agriculture is a system of cultivation using large amounts of labour and capital relative to land area.

• Large amounts of labour and capital are necessary to apply fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides to growing crops.

• Capital is significant to the acquisition and maintenance of high-efficiency machinery for planting, cultivating, and harvesting and irrigation equipment where that is required.

• Optimal use of these materials and machines produces significantly greater crop yields per unit of land than extensive agriculture, which uses little capital or labour. As a result, a farm using intensive agriculture will require less land than an extensive agriculture farm to produce a similar profit.

• Chota Nagpur, a plateau in eastern India, in northwestern Chhattisgarh and central Jharkhand states.

• The plateau is composed of Precambrian rocks (i.e., rocks more than about 540 million years old).

• Chota Nagpur is the collective name for the Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Koderma plateaus, which collectively have 25,293 square miles (65,509 square km).

• Its largest division is the Ranchi Plateau, which has an average elevation of about 2,300 feet (700 metres). In its entirety, the Chota Nagpur plateau lies between the basins of the Ganges (Ganga) and Son rivers to the north and the Mahanadi River to the south.

• Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar share a land border with India.

• It might also share a border with Sri Lanka (the boundary runs over Adam’s Bridge and may or may not run over one of its islands or shoals) and Afghanistan (Afghanistan shares a border with Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan, but it only borders the part that is occupied by Pakistan, so India considers it sharing a border with it, but other countries do not). All other countries (over 180) do not share a land border with India.