INSIGHT UPSC QUIZ

What is the alternate name for contour lines?

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 one of the following is not the result of underground water action?

Which one of the following pair is INCORRECT with respect to Solstice and Equinox?

Consider the following statements about ‘Meandering’:

1. Meandering is an important feature of upper course of a river that is characterized by intensive erosion and vertical cliffs with a concave slope. 

2. The physiographical features associated with meandering process are oxbow lake, levee deposits and backswamp. 

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

The light from the Sun reaches the Earth in about—

What is the full form of ITCZ?

Pulsars are:

Global warming is expected to result in:

Isohels are the isopleths of: