Insights Static Quiz -177, 2018 –Geography

Solution: d)

• The Golden Quadrilateral(GQ) is a national highway network connecting many of the major industrial, agricultural and cultural centres of India. It forms a quadrilateral connecting the four major metro cities of India, viz., Delhi (north), Kolkata (east), Mumbai (west) and Chennai (south).
• The Golden Quadrilateral project is managed by the National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) under the Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways.

Solution: a)

• Coal occurs in rock sequences mainly of two geological ages, namely Gondwana and tertiary deposits. About 80 per cent of the coal deposits in India is of bituminous type.
• The most important Gondwana coal fields of India are located in Damodar Valley.
• Jharia is the largest coal field followed by Raniganj.
• The brown coal or lignite occur in the coastal areas of Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir.

Solution: d)

• The tropical savanna climate is also called the tropical wet and dry climate. It is the climate experienced in savanna or tropical grassland regions of the world.
• These places are located near the equator, and they lie between the Southern and the Northern Tropics.
• The climate dominates many parts of the African continent, the northern region of South America, and parts of Asia such as India.
• The tropical savanna climate has alternating dry and wet seasons, hence its name. It shares some similar characteristics with the tropical monsoon climate, but it receives less annual rainfall as compared to the tropical monsoon climate.

Solution: b)

• A steppeis a dry, grassy plain. Steppes occur in temperate climates, which lie between the tropics and Polar Regions. Climate is continental with extremes of temperature. The summers are hot and the winters are cold. Steppes receive 25 to 50 centimetres (10-20 inches) of rain each year. The mid-latitude (Central Asian) grassland were once home to pastoral nomads like Kirgiz, Kazakh and Kalmuks.
• In Siberian Tundra, rainfall is scanty and climate is extreme. But the people were not nomadic herders. Their primary occupation is hunting or gathering. Hence option d is wrong
• In North American Prairies rainfall is scanty and climate is extreme. The farmers here use mechanised equipment and do wheat cultivation on large scale. Hence option c is wrong.

Solution: a)

Annual range of temperature is the difference between mean temperature of the warmest and the coldest months.

Statement 1 – The places in the interior of continent do not experience moderating effects of sea. Hence these places have extreme temperature.

Statement 4 – Annual precipitation is usually low in the interior areas.