The Standard Meridian of India is

Kanyakumari is

India is the

Which countries of the world have common frontiers with India?

Which one is the closest neighbour of India in the South?

The distance measured from east to west is:

Russia has

Length of the peninsular part of India is:

Juhu beach is located in

Marina beach is located in

Suez Canal was open in

The capacity of Tala Mega project is of

The largest state of India is

The smallest state is

Rajasthan has

The population of Uttar Pradesh is

Dispur is the capital of

India is divided into

The area of India is

India shares its international boundary with Bangladesh of

From which river the name of India has been derived?

The science of the earth’s crust is

The lithological study of rock beds, sequence of their occurrence and their thickness and age is

The highest and youngest mountain system of the world is

The highest mountain peak of the world is

The outer Himalayas is known as

The highest mountain peak of the Karakoram Mountain range is:

The Indian name for greater Himalaya is

The highest peak of the Alps Mountain is

The river that is believed to have disappeared in Rajasthan is

Which river is the successor of the Saraswati river?

The highest Indian plateau is

In the Thar desert, the fertile land developed by the seasonal rivers is

The largest physiographic division of India is

An extensive flat depression surrounded by hills in which the drainage is centripetal

The thick deposits of glacial clay and other materials embedded with moraines are

Which river shows meandring nature

Northern plains are formed by the alluvial deposits brought by the rivers

The south of Terai is the belt known as

Kathiawar coast lies in

The Bay of Bengal Island groups consist of islands

Barren island, the active volcano in India is situated in

The islands of Lakshadweep are separated by

The area of Minicoy is

Kovalam beach lies in

What are constantly shaping the landscape?

What is the radius of earth?

Which one is the direct source of providing information about the interior of the earth?

Which one is the indirect source of providing information about the interior of the earth?

The temperature and pressure increase through

The gravitation force (g) at different latitudes on the surface is

Earthquake is

Name the point from which energy is released?

What is called the point on the surface?

Which instrument records the waves reaching the surface?

Earthquake waves are of types

How many types of Body waves are there?

Which wave moves faster to arrive at the surface?

Which wave moves slowly to arrive at the surface?

In what form the seismograph gives the record of the waves?

Which waves are most destructive?

Surface waves are classified into

What type of earthquake is generated due to sliding of rocks?

The tremors which occur due to the explosion of chemical or nuclear devices are called

The magnitude of an earthquake is measured on

The magnitude of earthquake is expressed in absolute number

What generates the tsunami waves?

What is the velocity of ‘P’ waves?

The outermost part of the solid earth is known as

What is the mean density of material in oceanic crust?

Which material reaches the ground during volcanic eruptions?

The high velocity winds blowing in the upper troposphere are termed as

In summer the mercury occasionally touches 55°C in

Mainland of India lies roughly between

The Indian climate is

The local name of thunderstorm in West Bengal is

The common name for the gases like carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and chlorofluorocarbons is

The cold weather season begins from

The retreating monsoon season starts from

Agricultural prosperity of India depends very much on

In India the average annual rainfall is

Meghalaya and eastern part receives rainfall:

Global temperature will warm about:

The two factors which contribute to the development of the Indian monsoon are:

Where do you find the polar type of climate in India?

Name the hottest place in India.

Name the rainiest place in India.

The coastal states struck by tropical cyclones are

Which part of India gets winter rainfall due to retreating monsoons?

The hot and dry wind blowing from west in the month of May and June are

The state with lowest range of temperature is

The coldest place in India is

The comfortable areas of India in cold weather season are

Mango shower rain occurs in

The average rainfall in Punjab and Haryana is

Which state is known for ‘khejri’ tree?

What type of forests are found in western slope of the Western Ghats, Andaman and Nicobar Islands

In tropical evergreen forests, trees reach the heights upto

Rosewood, Mahagony, Ebony are found in

The main species of the moist deciduous forests are

Tropical thorn forests are found in

Tussocky grass grows upto a height of

Deodar and Cedar are highly valued endemic species growing in

The Southern mountain forests are found in

The temperate forest in Nilgiris are called as

The area under paddy cultivation is

The total wet land area is

Which two sites are protected waterfowl habitats under the convention of wet lands of International Importance

The country’s wetlands have been grouped into

Mangrove forests are found in

How many states are there where the forest cover is more than one third of the total area?

Out of 593 districts how many are identified as tribal districts

First forest conservation policy was proposed in

A comprehensive Wildlife Act was enacted in

The ‘Project Tiger’ Act have been launched in

Which Biosphere reserve is located in the part of Garo hills (Meghalaya)

The C horizon where substances of the upper leached horizons accumulate.

The soil which is rich in organic matter is

In an ancient time, the fertile soil was named as

Soil survey of India was established in

The type of alluvial soils, with newer alluvium

The local name of black soil in India is

The soil of tropical region of which lime and silica are leached away leaving behind the oxide of iron and aluminum is

The soils which are widely cut as bricks for use in home construction is

The soil which contains large proportion of sodium and magnesium is

The local name of saline soil in India is

The feature most widespread in Chambal Basin

The common physical properties of soil are

Name two main types of alluvial soils found in Northern India

What is the cause of soil erosion?

What is the characteristic of Alluvial soil?

What is the characteristic of Laterite soil?

Soil is important for

Scientific crop-rotation is helpful in

What is loam?

Channels from deep gullies are called

What are the main agents of soil erosion?

Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, floods, cyclones and soil erosion are known as

Landslides and floods occur due to

National Institute of Disaster Management, India Earth Sumit at Rio de Janeiro was established at

World conference on Disaster Management at Yokohama was established in

Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters both are

A set of rules and conventions that provides explanations to all problems is known as

Anthropogenic causes:

The issue of damages caused by the natural disasters was raised at

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) was declared in

Tropical cyclone is which type of disaster?

Out of these which is the aquatic type of disaster?

Changes that affect the humans adversely

Richter scale is used to measure the magnitude of

The worst cyclone affected country in the world is

The unit to measure pressure is

The most flood affected country in the world is

When ‘National Commission of floods’ was set up?

Proportion of the country’s total area identified as drought prone is

Natural removal of soil and rocks from slopes is called

Where do the maximum cyclones originate?

What are the units of landslides?

Which river is called as the sorrow of Bengal?

On the Bay of Bengal cyclones mostly develop during