TEST-13- INSIGHTS IAS REVISION PLAN FOR PRELIMS 2019 – DAILY REVISION TESTS: 27 March 2019

Solution: D

Marmagao Port, situated at the entrance of the Zuari estuary, is a natural harbour in Goa. It gained significance after its remodelling in 1961 to handle iron-ore exports to Japan. Construction of Konkan railway has considerably extended the hinterland of this port. Karnataka, Goa, Southern Maharashtra constitute its hinterland.

Visakhapatnam Port in Andhra Pradesh is a land-locked harbour, connected to the sea by a channel cut through solid rock and sand. An outer harbour has been developed for handling iron-ore, petroleum and general cargo. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are the main hinterland for this port.

Ennore Port, officially renamed Kamarajar Port Limited, is located on the Coromandel Coast about 24 km north of Chennai Port, Chennai, it is the 12th major port of India, and the first port in India which is a public company.

Solution: D

Extensive Commercial grain cultivation type of agriculture is best developed in Eurasian steppes, the Canadian and American Prairies, the Pampas of Argentina, the Velds of South Africa, the Australian Downs and the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand.

Solution: C

Foot loose industries can be located in a wide variety of places. They are not dependent on any specific raw material, weight losing or otherwise. They largely depend on component parts which can be obtained anywhere.

They produce in small quantity and also employ a small labour force. These are generally not polluting industries. The important factor in their location is accessibility by road network.

Solution: B

Reasons for shifting of sugar industry from North India to Peninsular India

• The production of sugarcane per hectare is higher is Peninsular India. In fact, sugarcane crop grows well in the tropical climate of south India.
• The sucrose content is higher in the tropical variety of sugarcane grown in the south.
• The crushing season in south India is longer than in north India.
• In south India most of the mills have modern machinery.
• Most of the mills in Peninsular India are in cooperative sector, where profit maximization is not the sole objective.

Solution: B

Ideal conditions for the cotton plants are Long vegetation periods (175 to 225 days) without frost, Constant temperatures between 18 and 30°., Ample sunshine and fairly dry conditions

Solution: C

Solution: C

Shale gas refers to natural gas that is trapped within shale formations.  Shales are fine-grained sedimentary rocks that can be rich sources of petroleum and natural gas.

Over the past decade, the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has allowed access to large volumes of shale gas that were previously uneconomical to produce.

Solution:  A

Chabahar Port is a seaport in Chabahar located in southeastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman.

Solution:  A

The Bushmen are the indigenous peoples of Kalahari Desert located in Southern Africa covering Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

Solution: B

Gas hydrates are crystalline form of methane and water and exist in shallow sediments of outer continental margins. They are envisaged as a viable major energy resource for future.

Gas hydrates with their abundant resource potential is emerging as a potential fuel resource. The preliminary assessment of geological condition and limited available seismic data suggests high possibility of occurrence of large quantity of gas hydrates within the EEZ of India.

Solution: A

Solution: B

Methods to Reduce Birth Rates

• Improving the status of women
• Incentives to limit child size, e.g. free health care
• Increase availability and knowledge of family planning by having more family planning clinics and greater availability of contraception
• Better education
• Encouraging marriage at a later age (especially of women as early pregnancy in most cases increases infant mortality rate)
• Encouraging women to take up career opportunities
• Improved health care
• Improved infant care to reduce infant mortality (higher infant mortality encourages parents to have more kids as rate of survival becomes poor)

Solution: C

Female predominate the streams of short distance rural to rural migration due to social reasons such as marriage. Contrary to this, men predominate the rural to urban stream of inter-state migration due to economic reasons such as lack of employment opportunities in rural areas

Solution: D

Triangular shaped pyramid with a wide base is typical of less developed countries shows high birth and death rate

Australia’s population pyramid is bell shaped and tapered towards the top. This shows birth and
death rates are almost equal leading to a near constant population

Narrow base and a tapered top showing low birth and death rates typical of developed countries such as Japan

Solution: C

Solution: C

Kunar Province is located in Afghanistan, Raqqa city is located in Syria and Caracas is located in venezuela.

Solution: A

Assumption and Comoros Islands are located in Indian Ocean and Hambantota port is located at extreme south of Sri Lanka.

Solution: D

Snakebites Envenomation is on the list of Neglected Tropical Diseases.

The Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) is an initiative for skill development in the environment and forest sector to enable India’s youth to get gainful employment and/or self-employment.

Half-Earth is a call to protect half the land and half the sea in order to manage sufficient habitat to ensure the long-term health of our planet. The Half-Earth Project is bringing this conservation moonshot to life.

Solution: C

Sacred groves are not exclusively protected under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.

Himachal Pradesh leads in state-wise distribution of sacred groves.

Ken-Betwa river interlinking project pose threat to Panna Tiger Reserve.

http://ecoheritage.cpreec.org/innerpageof.php?$mFJyBfKPkE6

Solution: A

The Global Peace Index (GPI), released by Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace
(IEP). The IEP is the world’s leading think tank that develops metrics to analyse peace and quantify its economic value.

Solution: D

What is HiLumi?

The High Luminosity LHC(HL-LHC) is an upgrade of the LHC. HiLumi will make it
possible to study the fundamental building blocks of matter in more detail than ever before.

The upgrade will boost the accelerator’s potential for new discoveries in physics, starting in
2026.

Solution: C

Scheduled Banks in India constitute those banks which have been included in the Second Schedule of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934. RBI in turn includes only those banks in this schedule which satisfy the criteria laid down vide section 42 (6) (a) of the Act.

The banks included in this schedule list should fulfil two conditions.
1. The paid capital and collected funds of bank should not be less than Rs. 5 lacs.
2. Any activity of the bank will not adversely affect the interests of depositors.

Every Scheduled bank enjoys the following facilities.
1. Such bank becomes eligible for debts/loans on bank rate from the RBI
2. Such bank automatically acquires the membership of clearing house.

The scheduled banks comprise scheduled commercial banks and scheduled cooperative banks.

Further, the scheduled commercial banks in India are categorized into five different groups
according to their ownership and/or nature of operation: – (i) Nationalized Banks; (ii) State Bank of India and its associates; (iii) Regional Rural Banks (RRBs); (iv) Foreign banks; and (v) Other Indian private sector banks. Scheduled Co-operative Banks consist of Scheduled State Co-operative Banks and Scheduled Urban Co-operative Banks

Solution: B

Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthianus) is a shrub that is found in the shola forests of the Western Ghats in South India. Nilgiri Hills, which literally means the blue mountains, got their name from the purplish-blue flowers of Neelakurinji that blossoms only once in 12 years.

Some Kurinji flowers bloom once every seven years, and then die. Their seeds subsequently sprout and continue the cycle of life and death.

Toda Tribe is the most ancient and unusual tribe of Nilgiri Hills of Tamil nadu. The todas have their own language. They have their own secretive customs and regulations. Todas worship nature like hill gods, Lord Amodr (the realm of the dead) & Goddess Teikirzi. Toda community is well known for its embroidery garments.

Solution: B

Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitats is a centrally sponsored scheme consists of Project Tiger (CSS-PT), Development of Wildlife Habitats (CSS-DWH) and Project Elephant (CSS-PE).

The scheme has following three components:

• 
  Support to Protected Areas (National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries, Conservation Reserves and Community Reserves).
  • Protection of Wildlife outside Protected Areas.
  • Recovery programmes for saving critically endangered species and habitats.

Solution: C

Reang or Bru are one of the 21 scheduled tribes of the Indian state of Tripura. The Bru can be found all over the Tripura state in India. However, they may also be found in Mizoram, Assam, Manipur. They speak the Reang dialect of Bru language which is of Tibeto-Burmese origin and is locally referred to as Kau Bru.