Insights Static Quiz -201, 2018 –Geography

Solution: a)

Solution: c)

Major rivers flowing in Odisha is:

1. Baitarani
2. Brahmani
3. Indravati
4. Mahanadi
5. Southkoel
6. Subarnarekha

River Vamsadhara is an important east flowing river between Rushikulya and Godavari, in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

Damodar River is a river flowing across Jharkhand and West Bengal.

Solution: b)

The ITCZ is a zone of convergence at the thermal equator where the trade winds meet and it is a zone where air tends to ascend. It is a low pressure belt and migrates with the changing position of the thermal equator.

The thermal equator receives the most intense heat from the Sun. Around 20th June each year the Sun is overhead at 23½º North, the Tropic of Cancer. Around 20th December the Sun is overhead at 23½º South, the Tropic of Capricorn.

The movement of the thermal equator shifts the belts of planetary winds and pressure systems to the north and to the south annually.

Solution: a)

Equatorial counter-currents are major surface flows that carry water eastward in the Atlantic,

Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

They are located near the equator and are sandwiched between two westward-flowing currents, the North Equatorial Current and the South Equatorial Current.

Equatorial counter-currents are unique, in that they flow in the opposite direction of the surface winds. The other major surface currents in the tropics flow in the same direction as the prevailing winds.

Solution: d)

The Korean Peninsula is located in East Asia. It is surrounded by the Sea of Japan (East Sea) to the east and the Yellow Sea (West Sea) to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the two bodies of water.