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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 45

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Pop the soil shapersRead the answer and worked solution →Run the soil typesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the soil wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Sandy or clayeyRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the soil horizonsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Soil bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The United Nations recommends a minimum of how much water per person per day for drinking, washing and hygiene?Read the answer and worked solution →The UN minimum of 50 litres a day is about how many buckets of water?Read the answer and worked solution →In a few years, what share of the world's people could face water scarcity?Read the answer and worked solution →About what share of the earth's surface is covered with water?Read the answer and worked solution →Water fit for human use is:Read the answer and worked solution →Usable water on earth is roughly what share of all water?Read the answer and worked solution →Water in glaciers, ice caps and permanent snow is:Read the answer and worked solution →Continuous cycling of water among its three forms keeps the total water on earth:Read the answer and worked solution →The upper level of the layer where soil gaps and rock cracks are filled with water is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Water found below the water table is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The seeping of water into the ground is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Groundwater stored between layers of hard rock below the water table is an:Read the answer and worked solution →A grass lawn versus a pukka floor: which lets rainwater seep in easily?Read the answer and worked solution →Most Indian farmers depend on which source to irrigate crops?Read the answer and worked solution →Excessive rains cause floods, while absence of rain results in:Read the answer and worked solution →Using rainwater to recharge groundwater is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Bawris, now being revived, were traditional structures for:Read the answer and worked solution →Watering plants through narrow tubes delivering water at the base of the plant is:Read the answer and worked solution →Bhujpur, where villagers built check-dams in 1989, is in which region?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhujpur's check-dams were built on which river and its tributaries?Read the answer and worked solution →How many check-dams did Bhujpur villagers build in 1989?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the water table drainersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the water cycle stepsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Pop the soil shapers

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Other terms
  1. Surahi
  2. Matka
  3. Kalla
  4. Wheel
Matching terms
  1. Wind
  2. Rainfall
  3. Temperature
  4. Light
  5. Humidity
  6. Weathering
Instructions
Pop the climatic factors and processes that shape soil. Leave the pottery words.
_Source: syllabus Science, Chapter 9, Soil._

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Run the soil types

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Questions
  1. Correct
    Sandy
    Choices
    1. Sandy
    2. Clayey
    3. Loamy
  2. Correct
    Clayey
    Choices
    1. Sandy
    2. Clayey
    3. Loamy
  3. Correct
    Loamy
    Choices
    1. Sandy
    2. Clayey
    3. Loamy
  4. Correct
    Paddy
    Choices
    1. Paddy
    2. Pulses
    3. Cotton
  5. Correct
    Pulses
    Choices
    1. Paddy
    2. Pulses
    3. Cotton
  6. Correct
    Cotton
    Choices
    1. Paddy
    2. Pulses
    3. Cotton
Instructions
Soil of: big grains, fine grains, equal mix; then crop for: water-holding clay, draining loam, sandy-loam.
_Source: syllabus Science, Chapter 9, Soil._

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Slice the soil words

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Does not match the category
  1. Ledger
  2. Sonnet
  3. Fresco
  4. Piston
Matches the category
  1. Humus
  2. Horizon
  3. Loam
  4. Silt
  5. Bedrock
Instructions
Slice only the words about soil. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Science, Chapter 9, Soil._

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