Indian Geography - General Knowledge Questions and Answers

Yellow and red soils is found in south India. It develops on crystalline igneous rocks in areas of low rainfall in the eastern and southern part of the Deccan Plateau.

Oak is a very important tree species of the temperate broadleaved Himalayan forests.

Oak trees are built strong, allowing them to live for hundreds of years. Tannic acids in the leaves and bark guard oaks from fungi and insects.

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
It was the first agreement between nations to mandate reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. which was signed by nearly all nations at the 1992 mega-meeting popularly known as the Earth Summit. That treaty was finalized in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, after years of negotiations, and it went into force in 2005.

GDP stands for "Gross Domestic Product" and represents the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced (and sold on the market) within a country during a period of time (typically 1 year).GDP is the most commonly used measure of economic activity.

Sulphur dioxide (SO2) is one of the most common gases released in volcanic.

Krishnapatnam is a port town in Muthukur Mandal of Nellore District, the southernmost coastal district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Krishnapatnam Port was dedicated to the nation on July 17, 2008, is the deepest port of India with a draft of 18.5 metres.

Hugli River, Hugli also spelled Hooghly, river in West Bengal state, northeastern India. Kolkata is located on the bank of this river. It splits from the Ganges as a canal in Murshidabad District at the Farakka Barrage.

The state of Meghalaya (the abode of clouds) is situated in the north-eastern region of India, between the Brahmaputra valley in the north and the Bangladesh in the south.
It is the detached north-eastern extension of the Peninsular India. Part of it lies buried under the alluvium deposited by the Ganga-Brahmaputra system of rivers. This gap is known as Malda gap (between Raj Mahal hills/Chhota Nagpur and the Shillong Plateau).

Punjab leads in terms of land under irrigation, with 98.8 per cent of its crop land under irrigation.

the regur soil is also called the black cotton soil as cotton is the main crop grown in this type of soil.
Is formed by the disintegration and decomposition of the igneous rocks.
Black soil is also ideal for cotton cultivation because it can maintain moisture.

Gujarat has the longest mainland coastline in India with the lenght of 1214 km.

Andhra Pradesh has the second longest mainland coastline with a total length of 974 km.

The aphelion is the point in the orbit of an object where it is farthest from the Sun. The word aphelion derives from the Greek words, apo meaning away, off, apart and Helios.
The point in orbit where an object is nearest to the sun is called the perihelion.

Only one side of the Moon is visible from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that the Moon orbits the Earth – a situation known as synchronous rotation, or tidal locking.