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Question 1: The Nyishi community is the largest ethnic

group in Arunachal Pradesh in north-
In the region of eastern shore of Adriatic Sea, a
eastern India. In Nyishi, their traditional
cold and dry wind blowing down from the
language, Nyi refers to "a human" and the
mountain is known as
word shi denotes "a being", which combined
Options: together refers to a human being. The Nyishi
language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan family,
a. Mistral however, the origin is disputed.
b. Bora
c. Bise Polygyny is prevalent among the Nyishi. It
d. Blizzard signifies one's social status and economic
stability and also proves handy during hard times
Answer: b like clan wars or social huntings and various
Explanation: other social activities. They trace their
descent patrilineally and are divided into several
Bora: it descends from mountains during the clans.
winter season. It blows with a speed of 120-
150km/h. its duration may be from three to five They are agriculturalists who practice jhum
days. It is a strong, cold, dry north east wind cultivation. Rice is the staple food of the people,
blowing outwards from Hungary to the north of supplemented by fish, meat of various animals,
Italy in the upper Adriatic Sea. edible tubers and leafy vegetables.

Mistral: it blows in Rhone valley of France. It a Nyokum is the festival celebrated by the Nyishi
cold wind blowing during winters. It has adverse people, which commemorates their ancestors.
effects on orchards. Most Nyishis have been converted to Christianity
by Christian missionaries in the 1970s,
Blizzard: It is intensely cold fast blowing wind particularly in the Papum Pare region, and
accompanied by snow. Blows in North America/ Christianity is the major religion among the
Tundra region. Nyishis. Some still follow the ancient indigenous
Bise: is a cold, dry wind in Switzerland which Donyi Poloism.
blows through the Swiss Plateau from the Question 3:
northeast to the southwest.
The number of people per unit area of arable
Question 2: land is termed as
Nyishi tribe is found mainly in Options:
Options: a. agricultural density
a. Andaman and Nicobar b. arithmetic density
b. Arunachal Pradesh c. physiological density
c. Nilgiri-Kerala d. economic density
d. Kashmir Valley Answer: c
Answer: b Explanation:

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The physiological density or real population Answer: d

density is the number of people per unit area
Explanation:
of arable land. A higher physiological density
suggests that the available agricultural land is Commercial farming occurs when a farm is set up
being used by more and may reach its output for the sole purpose of producing crops and farm
limit sooner than a country that has a lower animals for sale, with the sole intention of
physiological density. making a profit. It has three main categories:
Question 4: Commercial grain farming: Just as the name
suggests, in this method, farmers grow grains
Which one of the following rivers joins Ganga
and trade them in the market. Wheat and maize
directly?
are the most common crops of commercial grain
Options: farming. Farmers of Asia, Europe, temperate
grasslands of North America generally practice
a. Chambal
this type of farming.
b. Son
c. Betwa Plantation farming: Plantation farming is a mix
d. Ken of agriculture and industry and is practiced
across a vast area of land. Plantation owners
Answer: b
usually grow a single crop like banana, coffee,
Explanation: tea etc. in a plantation and use technological
support to process the crop on the farm itself or
Son River (784 km) originates from Amarkantak a factory attached to it. The end product also
and joins the Ganga River near Patna. The Son works as a raw material for industries. For
River is one of the longest Indian River and one example, the rubber industry uses the rubber
of the largest tributaries of Ganges River in produced from its plantation as raw material.
southern bank.
Mixed farming: This farming method involves
cultivation of crops, rearing livestock and
growing their fodder. It is a common practice in
parts of USA, Australia, and New Zealand,
Europe, and South Africa to do mixed farming for
a living.

Intensive subsistence agriculture is a method of

agriculture where farmers get more food per
acre compared to other subsistence farming
Question 5: methods. This allows them to produce enough
Which one of the following is not a type of food for family consumption while still having
commercial agriculture? enough product for sale or exchange.

Options: Question 6:

a. Dairy farming Which one of the following is not a land use

b. Grain farming category?
c. Livestock ranching Options:
d. Intensive subsistence agriculture

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a. Forestland b. Education
b. Pasture land c. Marriage
c. Marginal land d. Business
d. Barren and wasteland
Answer: c
Answer: c
Explanation:
Explanation:

Under land revenue records, land use categories

tend to be as follows:

Forest: Within land revenue records, forests are

the areas that are identified as well as
demarcated for forest growth.

Land Put to Uses that are Non-Agricultural:

Within this category, all land which is not Question 8:
employed in agriculture is included. For
example, roads, shops, settlement, industries, Geomorphic factors influencing plant and animal
canals, etc. distributions are

Barren and Wastelands: This category typically Options:

includes all that land which is incapable of being
a. slope angle and relief only
cultivated. It, thus, includes the unproductive
b. slope aspect and relative relief
land.
c. slope angle, slope aspect and relief
Area under Permanent Pastures as well as d. slope angle, slope aspect and relative
Grazing Lands: This kind of land is commonly relief
found in the outer area of rural settlements
Answer: d
wherein villagers graze their animals.
Explanation:
Cultivable Wasteland: It involves land which can
be employed to cultivate crops via land Slope angle: It means the gradient of a stable
reclamation as well as other land quality hill-slope. It determines the nature of soil, soil
enhancement techniques. moisture, depth of water table etc.

Current Fallow: It includes the land wherein Slope aspect: In physical geology, aspect is the
cultivation is not practiced for a year or less than compass direction that a slope faces. It
a year. determines the amount of sunlight, rainfall
received and nature of winds.
Question 7:
Relative relief: The term relative relief means
Which one of the following is the biggest cause
the actual variation of height i.e. different
of incidence of migration of female persons in
between maximum height and minimum height
India?
in per grid.
Options:
All these play a major role in determining the
a. Employment plant and animal distributions in a region.

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Question 9: classifications of Ocean Current which are

Which one of the following groups of cities does
not have Sclerophyll as its natural vegetation
cover?
Options:
a. Valparaiso and Cape Town
b. Lisbon and Perth
c. Los Angeles and Adelaide
d. Las Vegas and Queensland
Answer: d
Explanation:
Sclerophyll is a type of vegetation that has
hard leaves, short internodes (the distance
between leaves along the stem) and leaf
orientation parallel or oblique to direct sunlight.
The word comes from the Greek sklēros (hard)
and phyllon (leaf). They are prominent
throughout western (Perth region), eastern
(Sydney region) and southern (Adelaide region)
parts of Australia, in the Mediterranean forests,
woodlands, and scrub biomes that cover
the Mediterranean Basin, Californian chaparral
and woodlands, Chilean Matorral, and the Cape
Province of South Africa.
classified on the basis of the direction of flow,
speed and shape. There are four factors affecting
the origin and flow of Ocean Currents i.e.
Rotation and gravitational force of the Earth;
Oceanic factors (temperature, salinity, density,
pressure gradient and melting of ice);
atmospheric factors (atmospheric pressure,
winds, rainfall, evaporation and insolation);
factors that modifying Ocean Currents
(Direction, shape and configuration of coast
lines, seasonal variations and Ocean bottom
relief). It can be divided into two types- warm
currents and cold currents. The currents flows
from the equator to the poles are warm and
those flowing from the poles to the equator are
cold. The major ocean currents are represented
in the map below. It is easy to observe that the
North Atlantic Drift is a warm ocean current
among all the options.

Question 10:
Question 11:
Which of the following are warm ocean
currents? In India, how many States/Union Territories have
more than two international boundaries?
Options:
Options:
a. Kuroshio and California Current
b. North Atlantic Drift and Brazil Current a. 1
c. Canaries and Benguela Current b. 2
d. West Wind Drift and Falkland Current c. 3
d. 4
Answer: b
Answer: c
Explanation:
Explanation:
The general movement of a mass of Oceanic
water in a definite direction is called Ocean Sikkim: boundaries with China, Nepal and
Current. Drift current and stream are the Bhutan

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West Bengal: boundaries with Bangladesh, Options:

Nepal and Bhutan
a. Vertisol
Arunachal Pradesh: boundaries with China, b. Histosol
Bhutan and Myanmar. c. Gelisol
d. Spodosol
Question 12:
Answer: b
In the Hadley cell thermal circulation, air rises up
and finally descends at Explanation:

Options: Histosols are low-density, acidic soils with a high

a. intertropical convergence zone
b. doldrums
c. subtropical high-pressure cells
d. equatorial troughs
Answer: c
Explanation:
The Hadley cell is a global scale tropical
atmospheric circulation that features air rising
near the Equator, flowing pole ward at a height
of 10 to 15 kilometers above the earth's surface,
descending in the subtropics, and then returning
equator ward near the surface. This circulation
creates the trade winds, tropical rain-belts and
hurricanes, subtropical deserts and the jet
streams.
proportion of organic material. Formed mainly in
cold climates and under waterlogged conditions,
they are the most common soil in northern
Finland, in western Scotland, in central Canada,
and east of the Urals in Russia. They also occur in
the bogs and swamps of Ireland, Angola,
Bangladesh, and Guyana. Histosols are
estimated to cover just over 2.5 percent of the
continental land area on Earth, 80 percent of this
in cold or boreal climatic zones. Their agricultural
use is limited by cold climate, waterlogging, and
low fertility.
Question 14:
Which one of the following climatic types is
found in Central Spain?
Options:

a. Subarctic
b. Mediterranean dry hot summer
c. Subtropical Steppe
d. Humid continental warm summer

Answer: b

Explanation:

In Central Spain, the climate is continental, with

Question 13:
Which one of the following soils is characterized
by very high content of organic matter?
baking hot summers and quite cold winters. The
southern Meseta is also exceedingly dry. Madrid
has a relatively temperate climate.
Question 15:
Which one of the following rivers does not drain
into Black Sea?

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Options:

a. Volga
b. Dnieper
c. Don
d. Danube

Answer: a

Explanation:

Volga River is Europe's largest river in terms of

discharge and drainage basin. The river flows
through Central Russia and into the Caspian Sea.
The other rivers given drain into the Black Sea.

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