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Multiple choice geography trade in agricultural produce (part - a) trade in tamil nadu trade in agricultural produce - i human geography in tamil nadu

What is the major export of Tamil Nadu?

  1. Textile goods

  2. Drugs and pharmaceuticals

  3. Chemicals

  4. Leather and leather goods

  5. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

The major exports of Tamil Nadu include:

1. Textile goods
2. Drugs and pharmaceuticals
3. Chemicals
4. Leather and leather goods
5. Engineering goods
6. Ores and minerals
7. Software and electronics

Multiple choice geography trade in agricultural produce (part - a) trade in tamil nadu trade in agricultural produce - i human geography in tamil nadu

Which port in Coromandel coast had trade links with Southeast Asian ports?

  1. Hoogly

  2. Cochin

  3. Surat

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

India had trade through the sea routes in the pre-colonial period. Surat was the main port on the western coast, which connected India to the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. On the Eastern coast, the main ports were Masulipatnam on the coromandel coast and Hoogly in Bengal. They had trade contacts with Southeast Asian ports.

Multiple choice geography trade in agricultural produce (part - a) trade in tamil nadu trade in agricultural produce - i human geography in tamil nadu

At present, there are around ______ APMCs in Tamil Nadu.

  1. 100

  2. 200

  3. 300

  4. 400
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

At present, there are around 303 Agriculture Produce Marketing Centres (APMCs) distributed all over Tamil Nadu. The APMC is further classified into Primary and Secondary marketing centres and non-regulated marketing centres.

Multiple choice geography trade in agricultural produce (part - a) trade in tamil nadu trade in agricultural produce - i human geography in tamil nadu

What are the major imports of Tamil Nadu?

  1. Mineral fuels and oils

  2. Electrical machinery equipment

  3. Iron and steel

  4. Natural and cultured pearls

  5. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Major imports of Tamil Nadu include:

1. Mineral fuel and mineral oil
2. Electrical machinery equipment and spare parts
3. Iron and steel and articles of iron and steel
4. Natural and cultured pearls
5. Organic chemicals
6. Plastics and articles
7. Vegetable fats and oil products

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Earth takes 24 hours to ____________.

  1. Rotate around the sun

  2. Rotates on its axis

  3. Revolve around the sun

  4. Revolve around itself
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Rotation is the movement of the earth on its axis. The earth takes about 24 hours to complete one rotation on its axis. The period of rotation is known as the earth day. This is the daily motion of the earth.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Depositional work of glaciers along the sides of it is known as ______________.

  1. Drumlins

  2. Eskers

  3. Moraine

  4. Erratics
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Glacial deposition is the settling of sediments left behind by a moving glacier. As glaciers move over the land, they pick up sediments and rocks. The mixture of unsorted sediment deposits carried by the glacier is called glacial till. Piles of till deposited along the edges of past glaciers are called moraines.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Origin of typical land form of glacier i.e. Drumlins is _____________.

  1. Due to erosion

  2. Due to accumulation

  3. Both (A) and (B)

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Drumlin, oval or elongated hill believed to have been formed by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock debris, or till. The name is derived from the Gaelic word druim (“rounded hill,” or “mound”) and first appeared in 1833.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Large deposited material at the mouth of glacier is known as _________.

  1. Kame

  2. Kettle

  3. Eratics

  4. Fjord
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Larger pieces of rock that are encrusted in till or deposited on the surface are called "glacial eratics". They range in size from pebbles to boulders, but as they are often moved great distances, they may be drastically different from the material upon which they are found.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

Point out the term which describes the action of glacier and its effects on the previous landscape?

  1. Glacioscerpe

  2. Glaciations

  3. Fluvialglacio

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Fluvioglacial landforms are landforms molded by glacial meltwater. This discharge of glacial streams, both over the surface and beneath the ice sheet, is higher in the warmer summer months. As subglacial water often flows under pressure, it has a high velocity and is very turbulent.

Multiple choice geography our changing earth earthquake earthquakes earth's movement and creation of landforms

What causes days and nights?

  1. Earth's rotation

  2. Earth's revolution

  3. Sun's rotation

  4. Sun's revolution
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Earth is a non-luminous body but the sun is luminous. As the earth is rotating around its axis, half of its portion is facing the sun and the other half is entirely dark due to the absence of sun. In other words, half of the globe have day and on the other half, it is a night. As the earth is rotating around the sun its every part is exposed to Sun within every 24 hours this rotation causes days and nights.