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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 32

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Pop the karst featuresRead the answer and worked solution →Run the landform agentsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the desert landformsRead the answer and worked solution →Erosional or depositionalRead the answer and worked solution →Sort by geomorphic agentRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Landforms bingoRead the answer and worked solution →About what share of the planet's water is found in the oceans?Read the answer and worked solution →Geographers divide the oceanic part of the earth into how many oceans?Read the answer and worked solution →A major portion of the ocean floor lies how far below sea level?Read the answer and worked solution →The shallowest part of the ocean, with an average gradient of 1 degree or less, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The very steep slope at which the continental shelf ends is called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The average width of continental shelves is about:Read the answer and worked solution →The largest continental shelf in the world, 1,500 km wide, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Massive sediments received by continental shelves become the source of:Read the answer and worked solution →The gradient of the continental slope varies between:Read the answer and worked solution →The flattest and smoothest regions of the world, 3,000 to 6,000 m deep, are the:Read the answer and worked solution →How many oceanic deeps have been explored so far?Read the answer and worked solution →Iceland is a part of which ocean-floor feature?Read the answer and worked solution →Seamounts are of which origin?Read the answer and worked solution →The best known submarine canyon in the world is the:Read the answer and worked solution →A flat-topped seamount is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Low tropical islands of coral reefs surrounding a central depression are:Read the answer and worked solution →The boundary zone of rapid temperature decrease with depth is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The average surface temperature of the oceans is about:Read the answer and worked solution →Salinity is the amount of salt in grams dissolved in how much seawater?Read the answer and worked solution →Salinity of normal open ocean ranges between:Read the answer and worked solution →The landlocked Red Sea has salinity as high as:Read the answer and worked solution →The zone where salinity increases sharply with depth is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the ocean floor featuresRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the karst features

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Other terms
  1. Cirque
  2. Esker
  3. Barchan
  4. Delta
Matching terms
  1. Sinkhole
  2. Doline
  3. Uvala
  4. Lapies
  5. Stalactite
  6. Stalagmite
Instructions
Pop only the karst features. Leave the glacier and river forms.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 7, Landforms and their Evolution._

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Run the landform agents

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Questions
  1. Correct
    River
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
  2. Correct
    Glacier
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
  3. Correct
    Wind
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
  4. Correct
    River
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
  5. Correct
    Glacier
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
  6. Correct
    Wind
    Choices
    1. River
    2. Glacier
    3. Wind
Instructions
Pick the lane of the agent that makes each landform.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 7, Landforms and their Evolution._

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Slice the desert landforms

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Does not match the category
  1. Fjord
  2. Esker
  3. Delta
  4. Levee
Matches the category
  1. Barchan
  2. Seif
  3. Playa
  4. Inselberg
  5. Pediment
Instructions
Slice only the desert landforms. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 7, Landforms and their Evolution._

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