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UPSC CDS Transport & National Parks — practice questions — page 2

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Slice the road typesRead the answer and worked solution →Road or railRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Transport bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A trader says India's share of world trade by volume is small. Roughly how small?Read the answer and worked solution →India's external trade in 1950-51 was worth how much?Read the answer and worked solution →Over the years India's imports have compared to its exports how?Read the answer and worked solution →Which export sector alone made up 73.6 per cent of India's export value in 2016-17?Read the answer and worked solution →India's engineering exports face which main competitors?Read the answer and worked solution →In the 1950s and 1960s food shortage made which item India's main import?Read the answer and worked solution →Foodgrain imports stopped after the 1970s because of which success?Read the answer and worked solution →The 1973 energy crisis pushed up which import bill?Read the answer and worked solution →Besides petroleum, which luxury items figure among India's major imports?Read the answer and worked solution →Many Indian port towns carry the suffix pattan. What does pattan mean?Read the answer and worked solution →How many major ports does India have, with about 200 minor ones?Read the answer and worked solution →At Partition, which two important ports did India lose?Read the answer and worked solution →Indian ports handled 20 million tonnes of cargo in 1951. How much by 2016?Read the answer and worked solution →Kandla port at the head of the Gulf of Kachchh was built to relieve which port?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is India's biggest port, a natural harbour with 54 berths and the largest oil terminal?Read the answer and worked solution →Jawaharlal Nehru Port at Nhava Sheva was built as a satellite of which port?Read the answer and worked solution →Marmagao port in Goa was remodelled in 1961 to export iron ore to which country?Read the answer and worked solution →Which port sits at the head of Vembanad Kayal and is called the Queen of the Arabian Sea?Read the answer and worked solution →Kolkata port lies on the Hugli, how far inland from the Bay of Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Which port in the Mahanadi delta has India's deepest harbour for iron ore exports?Read the answer and worked solution →Which port is a land-locked harbour joined to the sea by a channel cut through rock and sand?Read the answer and worked solution →Chennai port is an artificial harbour built in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the west coast portsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the importsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the portsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the road types

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Does not match the category
  1. Gauge
  2. Pipeline
  3. Airmail
  4. Metro
Matches the category
  1. National
  2. State
  3. District
  4. Rural
  5. Border
Instructions
Slice only the classes of road in India.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 10, Transport and Communication._

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Road or rail

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Upper category
Road
Lower category
Rail
Items
  1. Category
    Road
    Item
    GT Road
  2. Category
    Road
    Item
    NHAI
  3. Category
    Road
    Item
    Gold. Quad
  4. Category
    Road
    Item
    BRO
  5. Category
    Rail
    Item
    Konkan
  6. Category
    Rail
    Item
    Broad line
  7. Category
    Rail
    Item
    Thane 1853
  8. Category
    Rail
    Item
    Metro
Instructions
Send each term to road or rail transport.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 10, Transport and Communication._

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Sort the numbers

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Items
  1. Group
    Road
    Item
    56 lakh km
  2. Group
    Road
    Item
    85% passengers
  3. Group
    Road
    Item
    5,846 km GQ
  4. Group
    Water
    Item
    12 major ports
  5. Group
    Water
    Item
    95% trade
  6. Group
    Water
    Item
    14,500 km
  7. Group
    Air
    Item
    1911 airmail
  8. Group
    Air
    Item
    Pawan Hans
Groups
  1. Item
    Road
  2. Item
    Water
  3. Item
    Air
Instructions
Drop each figure onto the mode of transport it describes.
_Source: syllabus Geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 10, Transport and Communication._

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