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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 40

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Pop the road wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the transport yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the transport wordsRead the answer and worked solution →West coast or east coastRead the answer and worked solution →Sort road, rail and waterRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Lifelines bingoRead the answer and worked solution →At least what share of India's recorded wild flora is on the threatened list?Read the answer and worked solution →India's forest and tree cover is about what share of its geographical area?Read the answer and worked solution →Mangrove cover in India is about:Read the answer and worked solution →Which body's classification is used for normal, endangered, vulnerable, rare, endemic and extinct species?Read the answer and worked solution →The Gangetic dolphin and Asiatic elephant are examples of which category?Read the answer and worked solution →The Himalayan brown bear, wild Asiatic buffalo and hornbill are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Andaman teal and Nicobar pigeon are examples of which category?Read the answer and worked solution →The Asiatic cheetah was declared extinct in India in:Read the answer and worked solution →The cheetah can run at about:Read the answer and worked solution →Between 1951 and 1980, how much forest area was converted to farmland in India?Read the answer and worked solution →Slash and burn shifting cultivation in tribal belts is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The Narmada Sagar Project in Madhya Pradesh would inundate how much forest?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buxa Tiger Reserve in West Bengal is threatened by mining of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act was implemented in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Kashmir stag is also called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The great Indian bustard is locally known as:Read the answer and worked solution →India launched its national campaign to save the tiger, Project Tiger, in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →In 1973 the tiger population had dwindled to:Read the answer and worked solution →India and Nepal together hold about what share of the world's surviving tigers?Read the answer and worked solution →Plants were first added to the list of protected species in:Read the answer and worked solution →More than half of India's total forest land is classed as:Read the answer and worked solution →North-eastern states and parts of Gujarat have a very high share of which forest category managed by local communities?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the tiger reservesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the road words

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Other terms
  1. Gauge
  2. Konkan
  3. Slurry
  4. Hooghly
Matching terms
  1. NHAI
  2. CPWD
  3. PMGSY
  4. BRO
  5. Metalled
  6. Zila Parishad
Instructions
Pop the words about roads. Leave the rail and water words.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 7, Lifelines of National Economy._

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Run the transport years

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1853
    Choices
    1. 1853
    2. 1953
    3. 1960
  2. Correct
    1953
    Choices
    1. 1853
    2. 1953
    3. 1960
  3. Correct
    1960
    Choices
    1. 1853
    2. 1953
    3. 1960
  4. Correct
    NW 1
    Choices
    1. NW 1
    2. NW 2
    3. NW 3
  5. Correct
    NW 2
    Choices
    1. NW 1
    2. NW 2
    3. NW 3
  6. Correct
    NW 3
    Choices
    1. NW 1
    2. NW 2
    3. NW 3
Instructions
Years: first train, air nationalised, Border Roads set up; then waterway on Ganga, Brahmaputra, Kerala canal.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 7, Lifelines of National Economy._

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Slice the transport words

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Does not match the category
  1. Ledger
  2. Sonnet
  3. Nebula
  4. Isobar
Matches the category
  1. Gauge
  2. Slurry
  3. Pipeline
  4. Corridor
  5. Hinterland
Instructions
Slice only the transport words. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Contemporary India II, Chapter 7, Lifelines of National Economy._

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