INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

Which of the following is parasitic food chain

Match List I and List II and mark the correct answer.

List I                                               List II

(Winds)                                           (Locations)

a. Chinook                                      1.  Alps

b. Foehn                                         2. India

c. Sirocco                                        3. USA

d. Loo                                             4. Egypt

Evergreen type Forests are found in:

What is the position of the Earth when it is at the greatest distance from the sun?

Which one of the following is the indirect use of forests?

Consider the following statements with reference to ‘Blue Stragglers’:

1. It is a class of stars on globular clusters that is smaller than the rest of the stars.

2. They are formed through the mass transfer from a close binary companion star and through collision of two stars. 

3. The Milky Way's largest and brightest globular is Omega Centauri.

Which of the statements given above is/are NOT correct?

Which of the followingis called the twin of the earth?

Who had used the term “Ecology” first time?

If a star is bigger than Sun, but not more than twice as big, it will turn into a 

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