CAPF (AC) 2019 (Paper-1) (Question 51-100)

Arunachal Pradesh has the largest area under dense evergreen forest cover. In terms of area, Madhya Pradesh has the largest forest cover in the country followed by Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Maharashtra.
Forest cover is generally classified into different categories based on canopy density:

• Very Dense Forest (VDF): Canopy density 70% and above.
• Moderately Dense Forest (MDF): Canopy density 40% and above but less than 70%.
• Open Forest (OF): Canopy density 10% and above but less than 40%.
• Scrubs: Canopy density less than 10%.

• The Japanese archipelagois a group of 14,125 islands that form the country of Japan.
• It extends over 3,000 km from the Sea of Okhotskin the northeast to the East China and Philippine Seas in the southwest along the Pacific Ocean coast of the Eurasian continent, and consists of three island arcs from north to south: the Northeastern and Southwestern Japan Arcs, and the Ryukyu Island Arc. The Kuril Island Arc, the Daito Islands, and the Nanpo Islands are not parts of the archipelago.
• The archipelago consists of 14,125 islands. The five main islands, from north to south, are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa. Honshu is the largest and referred to as the Japanese mainland.

24°N latitude passes through Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram. Hence, option (c) is correct answer.

• Latitudes are the imaginary lines drawn parallel to the equator. They are used to determine the distance of places at the North and South of the equator line. There are 180 imaginary lines drawn parallel to the equator that cover the earth’s surface from east to west.
• The equator lies at 0°, and every latitude is measured at 1° North or South of the equator. Hence, the North Pole lies at 90° N, and the South Pole lies at 90° S of the equator.
• Latitudes are horizontal lines distributed parallel to each other from the equator with 1° between each line. Latitudes are also known as ‘parallels’.

The correct order of Himalayan ranges from North to South is Karakoram, Ladakh, Zaskr, Pir Panjal and Siwalik.

• The ranges are separated by deep valleys creating a highly dissected topography [(of a plateau or upland) divided by a number of deep valleys].
• The southern slopes have steep gradients and northern slopes have comparatively gentler slopes. [Scaling Mount Everest is less hectic from the northern side. But China puts restrictions so climbers take the steeper southern slopes from Nepal]
• Most of the Himalayan ranges fall in India, Nepal and Bhutan. The northern slopes are partly situated in Tibet (trans-Himalayas) while the western extremity lies in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia.
• Himalayas between Tibet and Ganga Plain is a succession of three parallel ranges

Sonoran is a large desert situated in North American covering South-western United States and North-western Mexico.

• A desertis a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to the processes of denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the world is arid or semi-arid.
• This includes much of the Polar Regions, where little precipitation occurs, and which are sometimes called polar deserts or “cold deserts”. Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification, or by their geographical location.

The correct sequences of positions in the Bay of Bengal from North to South is Palk Strait - Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar.

Bay of Bengal is situated in the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean and bordered by many countries. To the northwest and west lies India; to the north is Bangladesh; Myanmar occupies the eastern boundary; Sri Lanka is positioned to the southwest; and Indonesia lies to the southeast.

Along its eastern side, the bay is flanked by the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a group of islands important both strategically and ecologically. The bay is nourished by many important rivers, including the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Godavari, Krishna, and Mahanadi, which form extensive delta systems and feed fertile plains along the coast.

The Bay of Bengal has a wide continental shelf in the north, gradually narrowing toward the south. Coastal slopes are different across the northwest, north, and northeast, shaped largely by river canyons and sediment deposits. These features influence both marine navigation and
coastal resource availability.

Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol is related to protection of ozone layer. The objective of the Vienna Convention is to preserve human health, and to protect the environment from any harmful effects of the depletion of the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol provides a schedule for the reduction of the substances that it regulates.

D — ⁺M — N — B⁺

As, we can clearly see that the gender of N and D is not defined.

So, we cannot say that if N is male or female.

So, only option (d) is definitely true.