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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 29

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Pop the drift evidenceRead the answer and worked solution →Run the theory datesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the boundary wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Wegener or plate tectonicsRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the boundariesRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics bingoRead the answer and worked solution →About 98 per cent of the earth's crust is made up of how many elements?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is a single-element mineral?Read the answer and worked solution →At least how many minerals have been named and identified in the earth's crust?Read the answer and worked solution →Coal, petroleum and natural gas are classed as which kind of minerals?Read the answer and worked solution →A mineral's tendency to break along plane surfaces in given directions is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The colour of a mineral's ground powder is its:Read the answer and worked solution →Fluorite is purple or green but gives a streak of which colour?Read the answer and worked solution →On the hardness scale of 1 to 10, which mineral is number 1?Read the answer and worked solution →Which mineral stands at 10, the top of the hardness scale?Read the answer and worked solution →A fingernail has a hardness of about:Read the answer and worked solution →Gold, silver and platinum are classed as:Read the answer and worked solution →Copper, lead, zinc, tin and aluminium are classed as:Read the answer and worked solution →Cement is a mixture of which kind of minerals?Read the answer and worked solution →The two most common minerals found in rocks are:Read the answer and worked solution →The science of rocks is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Igneous rocks, solidified from magma and lava, are also known as:Read the answer and worked solution →The word sedimentary comes from the Latin sedimentum, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The compaction of deposits into rock is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Chalk, coal and some limestone are sedimentary rocks formed:Read the answer and worked solution →Metamorphism by breaking and crushing without chemical change is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The layered arrangement of minerals in metamorphic rocks is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Slate, schist and marble are examples of which rock family?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the igneous rocksRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the drift evidence

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Other terms
  1. Convection
  2. Subduction
  3. Transform
  4. Richter
Matching terms
  1. Jig-saw fit
  2. Tillite
  3. Placer gold
  4. Fossils
  5. Rock ages
Instructions
Pop the evidence Wegener used for continental drift. Leave the later ideas.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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Run the theory dates

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1596
    Choices
    1. 1596
    2. 1912
    3. 1930
  2. Correct
    1912
    Choices
    1. 1596
    2. 1912
    3. 1930
  3. Correct
    1930
    Choices
    1. 1596
    2. 1912
    3. 1930
  4. Correct
    1961
    Choices
    1. 1961
    2. 1964
    3. 1967
  5. Correct
    1964
    Choices
    1. 1961
    2. 1964
    3. 1967
  6. Correct
    1967
    Choices
    1. 1961
    2. 1964
    3. 1967
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right year for each idea.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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Slice the boundary words

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Does not match the category
  1. Tillite
  2. Placer
  3. Lemuria
  4. Pangaea
Matches the category
  1. Divergent
  2. Convergent
  3. Transform
  4. Subduction
  5. Spreading
Instructions
Slice only the plate boundary terms. Spare the drift evidence.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 4, Distribution of Oceans and Continents._

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