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What is meant by 'energy crisis'?

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  1. Shortage of hydro-electricity

  2. Malnutrition leading to short supply of energy in the human body

  3. Shortage of the thermal power

  4. Impending danger of total exhaustion of fossil fuels like coal and petroleum

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

An energy crisis is any significant bottleneck in the supply of energy resources to an economy. In literature, it often refers to one of the energy sources used at a certain time and place, in particular those that supply national electricity grids or those used as fuel in vehicles.

The most common source of energy in rural India is _______.

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  1. Thermal energy

  2. Solar energy

  3. Cow dung or cattle dung cake

  4. Tidal energy

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Common energy source in Indian villages is wood and animal dung which is burnt to form biogas

Which one of the following is not a nuclear power plant?

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  1. Korba

  2. Kalpakkam

  3. Narora

  4. Ukai

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Korba is not a nuclear power plant.
Korba is a city and an industrial area in Korba District in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Korba is known as the Power Capital of India.

At which place in Gujarat is the most ideal and largest biogas plant of India setup?

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  1. Siddhapur

  2. Udatal

  3. Methaan

  4. Dantiwada

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Correct Option: C

Salal is the hydro power project in ______________.

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  1. Haryana

  2. Jammu and Kashmir

  3. Himachal Pradesh

  4. Punjab

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Salal Dam, also known as Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab River in the Reasi district of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Which of the following is/are considered a Renewable Source of Energy?
(A) Wind Energy
(B) Solar Energy
(C) Nuclear Energy

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  1. Only (A)

  2. Only (B)

  3. Only (C)

  4. Only (A) and (B)

  5. All (A), (B) and (C)

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Correct Option: D

Tick the correct answer:
Deserts are characterised by _________.

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  1. Scanty vegetation

  2. heavy precipitation

  3. low evaporation

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Deserts are characterized by Scanty vegetation.
1) Extreme conditions cause high temperature during the day and low temperature in nights
2) Very fewer rainfall results in a very little amount of water for plants to survive upon
3) Groundwater is present very deep inside the surface
4) This makes roots of average plants disable to suck water from under the surface
5) Only some special plants can grow here which have long roots and the transpiration rate from their leaves is very slow. Eg- Cactus

The correct definition of the 'biome' is areas having _______.

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  1. Large forest cover

  2. Large ecosystem on land with distinct vegetation and animal life.

  3. Enough water on land.

  4. Only animal population

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate.

The equatorial region is confined to ________.

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  1. Amazon Basin

  2. Congo Basin

  3. Some parts of Asia

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Equatorial type of climate, also known as tropi­cal rainforest wet climate , is located up to 5° to 10° latitudes on either side of the equator but at some places it extends up to 15°-25° latitudes mainly along the eastern margins of the continents.

The equatorial climate is found in the following localities:

(i) The Amazon Basin in South America,

(ii) The Congo Basin in Africa,

(iii) Guinea coast in Africa,

(iv) Much of the Indo-Malaysian Region mainly in Java, Sumatra, Bor­neo, Malaysia, Singapore and New Guinea,

(v) Philip­pine Islands,

(vi) Eastern central America (parts of Panama, Costarica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala etc.), some islands in the Caribbean Sea, western Columbia and eastern Madagascar.

 

Which ocean has the world's largest number of active volcanoes & so is called 'Ring of Fire'?

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  1. Indian Ocean

  2. Atlantic Ocean

  3. Pacific Ocean

  4. Antarctic Ocean

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Correct Option: C