SAT (Stage-2) Mock Test - 26

Sea breeze is the wind that flows/blows from sea towards the coastal areas as it is a gentle wind that develops over water bodies near land to differences in air pressure created by their different heat capacity.

The main water divide in peninsular rivers is formed by the Western Ghats, which run from north to south close to the western coast. Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Kaveri flow eastwards and drain into the Bay of Bengal. These rivers make delta at their mouths. The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries.

During the Upper Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, the north-moving Indo-Australian plate (which has subsequently broken into the Indian Plate and the Australian plate was moving at about 15 cm per year. About 50 million years ago, this fast moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has been determined by sedimentary rocks settled on the ocean floor and the volcanoes that fringed its edges. Since, both plates were composed of low density continental crust, they were thrust faulted and folded into mountain ranges rather than subducting into the mantle along an oceanic trench.

Cities located to the South of Tropic of Cancer will observe an overhead sun, twice a year. Bhubaneswar is located to the South of Tropic of Cancer.

India is the 7^th largest country in the world but it covers 2.4% land part of the entire Earth.
The whole of the India does not exist in tropical zone. The northern part of India above Tropic of Cancer 23°30" exists in temperate zone.
The 82.30' Eastern Longitude has been taken as the standard time for the whole country.

U.P. Total Length: 7,863 kms Length of NH/1000 sq km: 33 kms Length of NH/lakh population: 3.9 kms

Most of the jute mills are located in West Bengal, mainly along the Hugli basin.

Deforestation means cutting of tress.
Solar energy is an inexhaustible natural resource.
Non renewable resources can not be regenerated through natural cycles.
Coal is an exhaustible non renewable resource.

This is the correct answer as desert fox is a rare species of fauna in India. This is a species in which a small population may move into the endangered or vulnerable category, if the negative factors affecting them continue to operate.

This is the correct answer as Kaziranga National Park is the host to one horned rhinoceros and swamp deer. Kaziranga also boasts the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006.

Scientific forestry was the system being taught at the Imperial Forest Research Institute.

This is the correct option. Under the Forest Act, 1878, forests were to be divided into three categories - protected, reserved and village.

The Kalangs were a community of skilled forest cutters and shifting cultivators of Java.

Clergy and nobility were exempted from paying taxes in France. Members of the third state had to pay all types of taxes including tithes and taille. Clergy and Nobility were privileged class. They had certain special privileges; in addition to feudal privilege. They were exempted from paying any types of taxes.