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Question 51. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer by using the codes given below:
Assertion (A):
India enjoys tropical monsoon climate.
Reason (R):
India is located within the tropics.
Select the correct answer from the following codes: Codes:
  1.    Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  2.    A is true, but R is false.
  3.    A is false, but R is true.
  4.    Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> A is true, but R is false.
Answer: (b)India is located in the middle of tropic of cancer.
Question 52. In which one of the following islands of India is an active volcano found?
  1.    Nancowry Island
  2.    Barren Island
  3.    Maya Bunder Island
  4.    Car Nicobar Island
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Barren Island
Answer: (b)Barren Island is located in the Andaman Sea. It is the only confirmed active volcano in South Asia.
Question 53. Guru Shikhar on the Abu Hills is the highest peak of which mountain ranges?
  1.    Purvanchal
  2.    Anamalai
  3.    Aravallis
  4.    Sahyadri
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Aravallis
Answer: (c)
Guru Shikhar holds the honour of being not only the highest peak of Mount Abu but the whole of Aravali mountain range.
This peak is the home to the temple of Dattatreya, an incarnation of Lord Vishnu.
Question 54. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List I
List II
(Hill resorts)
(State)
A. Dalhousie
1. Jammu and Kashmir
B. Darjeeling
2. Himachal Pradesh
C. Mussoorie
3. West Bengal
D. Pahalgam
4. Uttarakhand
Codes: A B C D
  1.    1 3 2 4
  2.    2 3 4 1
  3.    3 1 4 2
  4.    2 4 3 1
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 2 3 4 1
Answer: (b)
Dalhousie is in Himachal Pradesh,
Darjeeling is in West Bengal,
Mussoorie is in Uttrakhand and
Pahalgam is in Jammu and Kashmir.
Question 55. Which of the following areas or regions is most prone to earthquakes?
  1.    Ganga-Brahmaputra Valley
  2.    Plains of northern India
  3.    Western Ghats
  4.    Deccan Plateau
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Ganga-Brahmaputra Valley
Answer: (a)
The Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is a high earthquake risk zone. It comes under Zone 5 covers the areas with the highest risks zone that suffers earthquakes of intensity MSK IX or greater.
Experts warn that as many as a million deaths could be expected on the Ganges and Brahmaputra plain, as the southern flank of the Himalayas has not been active enough over past centuries to release the energy accumulated by the upward movement of the Indian plate.
Question 56. Which of the following islands of India has volcanic origin?
  1.    Car Nicobar
  2.    Little Nicobar
  3.    North Andaman
  4.    Barren
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Barren
Answer: (d)
Question 57. India’s area is about.....times larger than Pakistan.
  1.    4
  2.    6
  3.    9
  4.    3
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 4
Answer: (a)India’s area of 3,287,263 square kilometers is 4.12 times larger than Pakistan’s 796,095 square kilometres. India is 6.5 times bigger than Pakistan by population
Question 58. What would be the influence on the weather conditions when in mid-winter a feeble high pressure develops over the NorthWestern part of India?
  1. High and dry winds would blow outward from this high pressure area.
  2. The Northern plain would become cold.
  3. Scorching winds (locally called loo) would blow during the day time.
  4. There would be torrential rains brought by thunderstorms.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below
  1.    2 and 3
  2.    3 and 4
  3.    All of these
  4.    1 and 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 1 and 2
Answer: (d)High and dry winds would blow outwards from this high pressure area when a high pressure develops over the North – Western part of India.
Question 59. 70º East longitude passes through
  1.    Jaisalmer
  2.    Dholpur
  3.    Nagpur
  4.    Jodhpur
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Jaisalmer
Answer: (a)
Question 60. If the Sun rises at Tirap in Arunachal Pradesh at 5.00 am (IST), then what time (IST) the Sun will rise in Kandla in Gujarat?
  1.    About 6.00 a.m.
  2.    About 7.00 a.m.
  3.    About 7.30 a.m.
  4.    About 5.30 a.m.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> About 7.00 a.m.
Answer: (b)

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