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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 39

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Pop the monsoon wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the monsoon calendarRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the climate wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Winter or summerRead the answer and worked solution →Sort controls, winds and rainsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Indian climate bingoRead the answer and worked solution →India's road network aggregates to about:Read the answer and worked solution →The Golden Quadrilateral super highways link Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and:Read the answer and worked solution →The North-South corridor links Srinagar with:Read the answer and worked solution →The super highway projects are implemented by the:Read the answer and worked solution →The historical Sher-Shah Suri Marg between Delhi and Amritsar is:Read the answer and worked solution →The Border Roads Organisation was established in:Read the answer and worked solution →India's first train ran from Mumbai to Thane in:Read the answer and worked solution →The first train from Mumbai to Thane covered:Read the answer and worked solution →Indian Railways is now reorganised into how many zones?Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Railway network extends over about:Read the answer and worked solution →Broad gauge track width is:Read the answer and worked solution →The Konkan railway runs along which coast?Read the answer and worked solution →The cheapest means of transport, suited to heavy and bulky goods, is:Read the answer and worked solution →India's inland navigation waterways total:Read the answer and worked solution →National Waterway No.2 on the Brahmaputra runs between Sadiya and:Read the answer and worked solution →What share of India's trade by volume moves by sea?Read the answer and worked solution →India's coastline is about:Read the answer and worked solution →Kandla, also called Deendayal Port, was developed after Independence to offset the loss of:Read the answer and worked solution →Which port is India's premier iron ore exporter, handling about half of such exports?Read the answer and worked solution →New Mangalore port exports iron ore concentrates from which mines?Read the answer and worked solution →Which port is an inland riverine port requiring constant dredging of the Hooghly?Read the answer and worked solution →Air transport in India was nationalised in:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the major portsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the monsoon words

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Other terms
  1. Loo
  2. Mahawat
  3. Frost
  4. Kaal Baisakhi
Matching terms
  1. Burst
  2. ITCZ
  3. Jet stream
  4. El Nino
  5. Trough
  6. Mausim
Instructions
Pop the words that explain the monsoon. Leave the seasonal weather words.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India I, Chapter 4, Climate._

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Run the monsoon calendar

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1 June
    Choices
    1. 1 June
    2. 10 June
    3. 29 June
  2. Correct
    10 June
    Choices
    1. 1 June
    2. 10 June
    3. 29 June
  3. Correct
    29 June
    Choices
    1. 1 June
    2. 10 June
    3. 29 June
  4. Correct
    September
    Choices
    1. September
    2. October
    3. December
  5. Correct
    October
    Choices
    1. September
    2. October
    3. December
  6. Correct
    December
    Choices
    1. September
    2. October
    3. December
Instructions
Arrival: Kerala tip, Mumbai, Delhi; then withdrawal: north-west begins, north half clear, whole country clear.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India I, Chapter 4, Climate._

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Slice the climate words

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Does not match the category
  1. Ledger
  2. Piston
  3. Sonnet
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Monsoon
  2. Loo
  3. Mahawat
  4. El Nino
  5. ITCZ
Instructions
Slice only the Indian climate words. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India I, Chapter 4, Climate._

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