UPSC World & Physical Geography

1. The rubber plant is indigenous to Brazil.
2. Brazil is the largest rubber producing country in the world.

Which of the above statements is / are correct?

1. Yellowknife Bay
2. Olympus Mons
3. Aconcagua Mountain

Select the correct option from the codes given below:

1. Tropical storms generally form in the high atmospheric pressure areas
2. The highest atmospheric pressures are generally recorded at their centers
3. At any given altitude, environment inside the cyclone is warmer than its outer surroundings

Select the correct option from the codes given below:  

1. Moon
2. Earth
3. Venus

Which one of the following correctly represents the increasing order of their albedo (from lowest to highest)?

1. One can find permafrost only in Arctic Region.
2. Permafrost is mostly devoid of natural resources.
3. Permafrost is highly susceptible to erosion.

Which of the above statements is / are correct?

1. Strongest westerlies blow in the winter hemisphere
2. Westerlies play a major role in the formation of tropical cyclones
3. Roaring Forties are a kind of westerlies

Select the correct option from the codes given below:

1. Karst topography is mainly found in regions characterized by limestone bedrock.
2. There are no regions with Karst topography in India.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

1. France and Lithuania receive more than 75% of their electricity from nuclear power.
2. Hydropower accounts for more than 50% of the electricity produced in Canada and Brazil.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

1. P-waves are body waves and fastest of all kind of seismic waves
2. S-waves are surface waves and cannot move through any liquid
3. Love waves have lower frequency than P-waves

Select the correct option from the codes given below:

1. The inner Van Allen belt consists only of electrons, while the outer belt has both electrons and protons.
2. The Van Allen radiation belts have a large coverage over the poles and are almost absent at the equator.

Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?