SAT (Stage-1) Mock Test - 85

The Fall of Constantinople directly affected the start of the Renaissance. Many Greek scholars fled Constantinople before and after the fall of the City due to the Ottoman menace. Even though the Fall of Constantinople was a dark and terrible event, it led to the beginning of the Renaissance, which helped pull Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the modern life of the New Age.

The Security Council has primary responsibility, under the UN Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security. It has 15 members (5 permanent and 10 non-permanent).
Each year, the General Assembly elects five non-permanent members (out of ten in total) for a two-year term.
The UN Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, namely UN General Assembly, UN Secretariat, UN Security Council, International Court of Justice, UN Economic and Social Council, and UN Trusteeship Council.

After independence, Indian policy makers adopted all measures to achieve self-sufficiency in food grains. India adopted a new strategy in agriculture, which resulted in the 'Green Revolution' especially in the production of wheat and rice. Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, officially recorded the impressive strides of the Green revolution in agriculture by releasing a special stamp entitled 'Wheat Revolution' in July 1968. The success of wheat was later replicated in rice.

Jawaharlal Nehru had a scientific outlook from beginning and he was convinced that science and technology can provide a solution to Indian problems. The first Chairman of Council Scientific and Industrial Research was Shri Shanti Swarup Bliatnagar.

Motilal Nehru (and not B. R. Ambedkar) was a successful barrister who gave up his expensive western-style suits and adopted Indian dhoti and kurta.
Wearing of Khadi became a symbol of nationalism. Khadi, white and coarse, was to Gandhiji a sign of purity, simplicity and poverty. It delivered a powerful message and became the symbol of power of masses.

The British first came to trade in Indian textiles. India accounted for one fourth of the world's manufactured goods in the seventeenth century; but the Industrial Revolution in Britain, which mechanised spinning and weaving and greatly increased the demand for raw materials such as cotton and indigo, changed India's status in the world economy.

Disguised unemployment is the situation where surplus man power is working with zero marginal productivity.
When some workers are temporary out of job because of change in job, strikes, lock out, etc, such temporary unemployment is called frictional unemployment.
Chronic unemployment is a long term feature of an economy.
Structural unemployment occurs due to changes in economy such as a decline in demand, etc.

The erratic growth of agriculture is caused due to other reasons such as inadequate rainfall, wrong methods of cultivation, natural factors, etc.
All other factors stated above are due to policy of government.

The tertiary sector of industry involves the provision of services to other businesses as well as final consumers. Services may involve the transport, distribution and sale of goods from producer to a consumer, as may happen in wholesaling and retailing, or may involve the provision of a service, such as in pest control or entertainment.

The Human Poverty Index was an indication of the standard of living in a country, developed by the United Nations (UN) to complement the Human Development Index (HDI) and was first reported as part of the Human Development Report in 1997.

The basic objective of PDS is to provide ration (or the essential consumer goods) at subsidised prices, so as to protect them from rising price or inflation, and to maintain nutritional status of the country.

Consumer as defined under Consumer Protection Act does not include a person who avails of services for any commercial purposes.

Odisha is surrounded by West Bengal to the Northeast and in the East, Jharkhand to the North, Chhattisgarh to the West and Northwest and Andhra Pradesh to the South.

The Karakoram range enters into Kashmir and includes the plateau of Aksai Chin.

The area under canal irrigation in Jammu and Kashmir is the highest among all Indian States. 91.72% of irrigated area in Jammu and Kashmir is irrigated by canals.
So, statement 2 is incorrect. Rest both the statements are correct.

The Thar Desert is located to the north-west of the Aravali hills. It is a land of undulating topography dotted with longitudinal dunes and barchans. This region receives low rainfall below 150 mm per year; hence, it has arid climate with low vegetation cover. It is because of these characteristic features that this is also known as Marusthali.