Q. Which one of the following regions of India is now regarded as an ‘ecological hot spot’?

Answer

Correct Answer : Western Ghats

Q. Which one of the following regions of the world is called “the bread basket of the world”?

Answer

Correct Answer : Temperate grassland

Q. Which one of the following rivers flow between Vindhyan and Satpura ranges?

Answer

Correct Answer : Narmada

Q. Which one of the following rivers thrice forks into two streams and reunites a few miles farther on, thus forming the islands of Srirangapatanam, Sivasamudram and Srirangam?

Answer

Correct Answer : Cauvery

Q. Which one of the following scholars suggests the earth’s origin is from gases and dust particles?

Answer

Correct Answer : O. Schmidt

Q. Which one of the following seas is without a coastline?

Answer

Correct Answer : Sargasso sea

Q. Which one of the following sequences in the ascending order of their geographical size is correct?

Answer

Correct Answer : Jharkhand - West Bengal - Tamil Nadu - Chattisgarh

Q. Which one of the following sequences of ocean trenches is correct in terms of the ascending order of their depths?

Answer

Correct Answer : New Hebrides Trench - Aleutian Trench - Mindanao Trench

Q. Which one of the following sequences of the oil refineries of India as they occur from south to north is correct?

Answer

Correct Answer : Kochi - Mangalore - Mumbai - Koyali