Difficult Geography Questions and Answers

The correct answer is SIMA. It is also known as the 'mantle' and is the second layer of the Earth's three concentric layers, the other two being SIAL (crust) and NIFE (core). The major constituent elements of SIMA (second layer) are magnesium and silicon.

Daojali Hading is a site on the hills near the Brahmaputra Valley, close to routes leading into China and Myanmar. Here stone tools, including mortars and pestles, have been found.

It is known as lading in Southeast Asia, milpa in Central America, Chitemene or tavy in Africa and Chena in Sri Lanka.

Spread over a campus of 250-acre (1.0 km²), it is situated in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state, on National Highway 72 (NH 72). Established through an act of parliament in the year 1959, it started in New Delhi in 1960 and finally in Dehradun since 1963.

Temperate evergreen forests are found in mid-latitudinal coastal regions. They lie on the eastern coastal margins of all the continents.

Ozone in the stratosphere protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation and is therefore often called 'good' ozone.

Copernicus finished the first manuscript of his book, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres") in 1532. In it, Copernicus established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth. He discovered the model of the solar system and the path of the planets.

Thorny bushes are found in hot and dry desert climate places such as Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and the Eastern slopes of Western Ghats.

Oceans make up 97.3 per cent of the total water on Earth. The ice caps have 2 per cent of total water. Groundwater accounts for 0.68 per cent of total water. Rivers account for 0.0001 per cent of the total water.

Arid soils are characteristically developed in western Rajasthan, which exhibits characteristic arid topography. These soils are poor and contain little humus and organic matter. They are also known as Usara soils.