SAT (Stage-2) Mock Test - 59

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.

Correct Answer: 1, 2 and 3 Only

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.

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

There are about 70 jute mills in India mostly located in West Bengal along the banks of the Hugli river. Factors responsible for the location in the Hugli basin are:

(i) Nearness of the jute producing areas.
(ii) Low-cost water transport, supported by a good network of railways, roadways and waterways to help the movement of raw material to the mills.
(iii) Abundant water for processing raw jute.
(iv) Cheap labour from West Bengal and adjoining states of Bihar, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh.
(v) Kolkata as an urban centre provides banking, insurance and port facilities for export of jute goods.

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.
So, only last statement is true.

These are species whose population has declined to levels from where it is likely to move into the endangered category in the near future if the negative factors continue to operate. The examples of such species are blue sheep, Asiatic elephant, Gangetic dolphin, etc. Rare Species is the species with a small population which may move into the endangered or vulnerable category. The examples of such species are the Himalayan brown bear, wild Asiatic buffalo, desert fox and hornbill, etc.

Kaziranga National Park, located in Assam's Golaghat and Nagaon districts, is home to two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceros population which also gave the park the status of a World Heritage Site. Kaziranga also boasts the highest density of tigers among protected areas in the world and was declared a Tiger Reserve in 2006. Swamp deer occur in the Kanha National Park of Madhya Pradesh, in two localities in Assam, and in only 6 localities in Uttar Pradesh. They are regionally extinct in West Bengal. They are also probably extinct in Arunachal Pradesh. A few survive in Assam's Kaziranga and Manas National Parks.

The Imperial Forest Research Institute was set up at Dehradun in 1906. The system they taught here was called 'scientific forestry'. Scientific forestry is the science of managing forests and tree plantations. Natural forests with different types of trees were cut down and replaced with one type of tree planted in rows known as plantation.

The 1878 Act divided forests into three categories: reserved, protected and village forests. The best forests were called 'reserved forests'. Villagers could not take anything from these forests, even for their own use. For house building or fuel, they could take wood from protected or village forests.

The Kalangs were skilled community of woodcutters and shifting cultivators. They were considered an important community due to their skills that were required to harvest teak and engage in other construction activities.

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.