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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 33

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Pop the salty watersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the ocean numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the minor reliefRead the answer and worked solution →High or low salinityRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the floor divisionsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Oceans bingoRead the answer and worked solution →About what share of the earth's surface is covered with water?Read the answer and worked solution →Water is called a renewable resource because all of it moves within the:Read the answer and worked solution →By 2025, nearly how many people are predicted to live in absolute water scarcity?Read the answer and worked solution →The largest consumer of water is:Read the answer and worked solution →Hydroelectric power contributes about what share of India's total electricity?Read the answer and worked solution →Which first-century BC site near Allahabad had a water harvesting system channelling Ganga flood water?Read the answer and worked solution →The tank at Hauz Khas, Delhi, built in the 14th century to supply Siri Fort, was constructed by:Read the answer and worked solution →The Bhakra-Nangal project, used for hydel power and irrigation, lies in which river basin?Read the answer and worked solution →The Hirakud project, integrating water conservation with flood control, is in the basin of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Who proclaimed dams to be the temples of modern India?Read the answer and worked solution →Which river is known as the river of sorrow in the Bhadu songs of its valley?Read the answer and worked solution →The Narmada Bachao Andolan opposed which dam being built across the Narmada in Gujarat?Read the answer and worked solution →The Krishna-Godavari dispute concerns diversion of water at Koyna by which state?Read the answer and worked solution →Guls or kuls are diversion channels for agriculture built in the:Read the answer and worked solution →In the flood plains of Bengal, people developed which structures to irrigate their fields?Read the answer and worked solution →Khadins, fields turned into rain-fed storage structures, are found in:Read the answer and worked solution →Underground tankas for storing drinking water were traditional in Bikaner, Phalodi and:Read the answer and worked solution →Rainwater stored in the tankas of western Rajasthan is locally called:Read the answer and worked solution →Rooftop rainwater harvesting is the most common practice in which state capital, despite record rainfall 55 km away?Read the answer and worked solution →Rooftop harvesting is declining in western Rajasthan because of water from the perennial:Read the answer and worked solution →Gendathur, a village famed for rooftop rainwater harvesting in nearly 200 households, is in:Read the answer and worked solution →Each house in Gendathur can collect and use about how much rainwater annually?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the traditional harvestingRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the salty waters

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Other terms
  1. Baltic Sea
  2. Black Sea
  3. Bay of Bengal
  4. Arctic
Matching terms
  1. Red Sea
  2. Dead Sea
  3. Lake Van
  4. Arabian Sea
  5. Great Salt Lake
  6. Mediterranean
Instructions
Pop the high-salinity water bodies. Leave the low-salinity ones.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 13, Water (Oceans)._

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Run the ocean numbers

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Questions
  1. Correct
    80
    Choices
    1. 80
    2. 600
    3. 1500
  2. Correct
    600
    Choices
    1. 80
    2. 600
    3. 1500
  3. Correct
    1500
    Choices
    1. 80
    2. 600
    3. 1500
  4. Correct
    33
    Choices
    1. 33
    2. 37
    3. 41
  5. Correct
    37
    Choices
    1. 33
    2. 37
    3. 41
  6. Correct
    41
    Choices
    1. 33
    2. 37
    3. 41
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right number for each fact.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 13, Water (Oceans)._

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Slice the minor relief

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Does not match the category
  1. Shelf
  2. Slope
  3. Plain
  4. Trench
Matches the category
  1. Ridge
  2. Seamount
  3. Guyot
  4. Atoll
  5. Canyon
Instructions
Slice only the minor relief features of the ocean floor.
_Source: syllabus Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 13, Water (Oceans)._

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