INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

What is percentage of expansion (coverage) of continents on the Earth’s surface?

Volcanoes are scattered:

A natural region has the similarity of:

Mountain soil contains a lot of—

With reference to the ‘Continental Shelf’, consider the following statements:

1. Legally, it is the stretch of the seabed adjacent to the shores of a particular country to which it belongs. 

2. Canyons and trenches are observed in this region.

3. Fossil fuels and metallic nodules are found in the continental shelves. 

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

In which of the following is the Great Barrier Reef located?

Alluvial soils are rich soil for crop cultivation but are poor in:

If there is no carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere, the temperature of earth’s surface would be:

The outermost layer of the Sun is called:

5. The light from the Sun reaches the Earth in about—