Start learning →

UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 28

Explore 1,356 free Indian Geography questions in UPSC CDS Geography. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

Practise Indian Geography with Quill →

Indian Geography questions and exercises with answers

Showing questions 811–840 of 1,356.

Pop the earth's layersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the depthsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the intrusive formsRead the answer and worked solution →P-wave or S-waveRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the volcano typesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Earth interior bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Continents cover what share of the earth's surface?Read the answer and worked solution →Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener named the single supercontinent:Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's mega-ocean, meaning all water, was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea began to split about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea first broke into Gondwanaland and which northern mass?Read the answer and worked solution →Bullard's 1964 computer fit of the Atlantic margins was tried at which depth line?Read the answer and worked solution →The gold placer deposits of the Ghana coast are believed to come from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mesosaurus fossils are found only in South Africa and which other country?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's polar-fleeing force relates to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Who in the 1930s suggested convection currents operating in the mantle?Read the answer and worked solution →Rocks of the oceanic crust are nowhere older than:Read the answer and worked solution →Hess proposed the sea floor spreading hypothesis in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Plate Tectonics was put forward in 1967 by McKenzie, Parker and independently by:Read the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into how many major plates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nazca plate lies between the Pacific plate and:Read the answer and worked solution →The best-known example of a divergent boundary is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The place where one plate sinks under another is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ridge has the slowest plate movement, under 2.5 cm a year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tethys Sea separated India from Asia until about:Read the answer and worked solution →India collided with Asia about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The outpouring of Deccan Trap lava began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the minor platesRead the answer and worked solution →

Worked practice questions

Pop the earth's layers

Read exercise and reference answers
Other terms
  1. P-wave
  2. S-wave
  3. Epicentre
  4. Focus
Matching terms
  1. Crust
  2. Mantle
  3. Outer core
  4. Inner core
  5. Lithosphere
  6. Astheno
Instructions
Pop only the layers of the earth's interior. Leave the wave words.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 3, Interior of the Earth._

Open this exercise →

Run the depths

Read exercise and reference answers
Questions
  1. Correct
    5 km
    Choices
    1. 5 km
    2. 30 km
    3. 70 km
  2. Correct
    30 km
    Choices
    1. 5 km
    2. 30 km
    3. 70 km
  3. Correct
    70 km
    Choices
    1. 5 km
    2. 30 km
    3. 70 km
  4. Correct
    400 km
    Choices
    1. 400 km
    2. 2900 km
    3. 6370 km
  5. Correct
    2900 km
    Choices
    1. 400 km
    2. 2900 km
    3. 6370 km
  6. Correct
    6370 km
    Choices
    1. 400 km
    2. 2900 km
    3. 6370 km
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right number for each fact.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 3, Interior of the Earth._

Open this exercise →

Slice the intrusive forms

Read exercise and reference answers
Does not match the category
  1. Caldera
  2. Cinder
  3. Shield
  4. Lava flow
Matches the category
  1. Batholith
  2. Lacolith
  3. Lapolith
  4. Phacolith
  5. Sill
Instructions
Slice only the intrusive volcanic forms. Spare the surface features.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 3, Interior of the Earth._

Open this exercise →

How to practise

  1. Choose a Indian Geography question and try to work out your answer.
  2. Open the question to check the correct answer and read its worked solution.
  3. Continue in the app for bite-sized lessons, explanations and review with Quill. You can start without creating an account.

More Geography topics

Physical GeographyEnvironment & EcologyIndian EconomyWorld GeographyIndian DemographicsPhysiographyPopulationAgriculture