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Arrange the following in the descending order of the largest agricultural imports of India.
1. Pulses 
2. Wood and its products
3. Edible vegetable oil

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  1. 1-2-3

  2. 1-3-2

  3. 2-1-3

  4. 3-2-1

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

  • Descending order of the largest agricultural imports of India the largest agricultural imports of India are as follows Edible vegetable oil followed by Wood and its products and then pulses.
  • Total import of edible oils are 127.31 lakh tons in the year 2014-2015
  • Total import of wood and wood products recorded as high as 2707.68 USD million in 2012.
  • Though pulses are grown in large amounts in India, it had to be imported due to population demands. Production of pulses in 2012 is 175.20 million tons and its import is 16.74 million tons.

Which state is abundant in production of soya bean?

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  1. Madhya Pradesh

  2. Uttar Pradesh

  3. Bihar

  4. Rajasthan

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Madhya Pradesh outperformed all states and emerged as India’s Soy State. Madhya Pradesh has 45% share in soyabean production in the country. Hoshangabad, Indore, Betul, Ujjain and Dewas are some of the Soy districts of that state. Soya bean is also called Golden bean which is a species of legume.

The food crop benefitted by winter rain in North India is.

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  1. Wheat

  2. Rice

  3. Maze

  4. Soyabean

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In India wheat is mostly grown in the Great Plains during the cold weather season. The winter rain occurring in northern India is beneficial for this crop. It occurs due to western cyclonic disturbances over the Mediterranean sea.

It's a type of agriculture where farmers clear a patch of land and produce food crops to sustain their family

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  1. Regular farming

  2. Slash and burn farming

  3. Clear farming

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Slash and Burn farming is a type of agriculture where the forest trees are cut and burned by farmers to create favorable soil and conditions for crop cultivation.
  • After 2 to 3 years, the land is left fallow due to its reduced fertility and farmers move to new regions and continue slash and burn farming.
  • It is also known as Shifting cultivation.

___________ which fall over the Torrid Zone travel shorter distance and heat up a smaller surface leading to higher temperature.

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  1. The sun's rays

  2. The moon's rays

  3. The mars's rays

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
The sun's rays which fall over the Torrid Zone travel shorter distances and heat up a smaller surface leading to higher temperatures.
The spectrum of the Sun's solar radiation is close to that of a black body with a temperature of about 5,800 K. The Sun also emits X-rays, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, and even radio waves; the only direct signature of the nuclear process is the emission of neutrinos.

The mechanism to maintain same temperature by the atmosphere is called as _____________. 

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  1. Heat Budget

  2. Heat Balance

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Heat budget and Heat Balance.

The earth as a whole does not accumulate or lose heat. It maintains its temperature. This can happen only if the amount of heat received in the form of insolation equals the amount lost by the earth through terrestrial radiation.

The height of a place above the mean sea level is known as its _________.

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  1. altitude

  2. latitude

  3. both a and b

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A

Temperature __________ with ____________ in latitude on either side of the Equator due to spherical shape of the earth and its annual revolution around the sun.

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  1. increases, decrease

  2. decreases, increase

  3. improves, decrease

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:
  • Temperature decreases with the increase in latitude on either side of the equator as the spherical shape of the earth and its revolution around the sun along with its tilted orbit leads to the reduction in the amount the insolation received as we move away from the equator. Hence option B is correct.

Slope of the land influences the ___ of a place.

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  1. temperature

  2. pressure

  3. heat

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A

___________ is cooler at higher altitudes than on the earth's surface.

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  1. Air

  2. Water

  3. Both a and b

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Air,

At higher altitudes, the air is thinner.  Without this atmosphere, Earth would be uninhabitable cold. So, even though higher altitude areas are closer to the sun, they have less ability to absorb the warmth of the sun because they have less of these gases.