201. Which city is located on the banks of the river Alaknanda?
1. Badrinath
2. Ayodhya
3. Allahabad
4. Lucknow
Option “1” is correct. Badrinath is in the Garhwal Himalayas, on the banks of the Alaknanda River.
202. With which of its neighbouring country India has Kalapani territorial dispute?
1. Nepal
2. Bangladesh
3. Pakistan
4. Sri Lanka
Option “1” is correct. Kalapani is a territory disputed between India and Nepal administered however as part of Pithoragarh district in the Uttarakhand state of India. It is situated on the Kailash Manasarovar route, at an altitude of 3600 meters.
203. Amazon river flows through which of the following country?
1. USA
2. France
3. Brazil
4. Canada
Option “3” is correct. The Amazon River flows in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world and the second longest in length after Nile.The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6,437 kilometers (4,000 miles) from the Amazon’s headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
Option “3” is correct. The Western Ghats also known as Sahyadri Hills(in Maharashtra) is a 1600 km long mountain range running all along the west coast of India. It covers the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharastra and Gujarat. Covering approximately 1,40,000 sq km, these mountains are home to number of endemic plants and animal species.
205. Which of the following rocks is not likely to contain fossils?
1. Conglomerate
2. Granite
3. Shale
4. Sandstone
Option “2” is correct. Fossils are found only in the sedimentary rocks or the metamorphic rocks made from the sedimentaries. Granite is an igneous rock and hence contains no fossils.
206. Which layer of atmosphere is vital for telecommunications?
Option “4” is correct. The ionosphere makes the radio communications possible by virtue to the fact that this layer reflects the radio signals back to the earth.
207. Which of the following countries is the largest producer of diamond?
1. Australia
2. Venezuela
3. Russia
4. Botswana
Option “3” is correct. Russia is the largest producer of diamond. In September 2012, Russia officially stated there are massive diamond reserves under the mines containing “trillions of carats” (hundreds of thousands of tons) and claimed there are enough diamonds in the field to supply global requirements for 3,000 years.
208. “Tsunami” is the name given to which of the following?
Option “3” is correct. A tsunami or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions.
