Which of the following statements is not true about a state ?
A.
It always has a social or cultural base.
B.
It has a territorial base.
C.
It claims internal sovereignty.
D.
It claims sovereignty in external relations.
Mohorovicic discontinuity marks the boundary between :
Continental shelf and Ocean crust
Asthenosphere
Crust and upper mantle
Core and mantle
The process in which one plate slides beneath another is known as :
Advection
Subduction
Convergence
Convection
San Andreas Fault is a :
Transform fault
Converging fault
Spreading fault
Submergent fault
A.
Transform fault
San Andreas Fault ia continental transform fault that extends 1,200 km through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and North American Plate and its motion is at horizontal right-lateral strike slip.
A transform fault is a fault whose motion is pre-dominantly horizontal.
Which one of the following is a fluvio-glacial deposit ?
Pediplain
Kame Terrace
Floodplain
Loess plain
Which one of the following ranges of percentages of increase of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1750 is correct ?
5-10%
10-15%
15-30%
More than 30%
ASSERTION (A) : The shift of ITCZ is greater over sea than over land.
REason (R) : The land surface gets more heated than the water bodies.
Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true , but (R) is false.
(A) is false , but (R) is true.
Who among the following scholars has given the Subsidence Theory relating to coral reefs ?
Dally
Davis
Dutton
Darwn
LIST I (Gases) |
LIST II (% of gases in atmosphere) |
(a) N2 | (1) 0.0934 |
(b) Ar | (2) 0.039 |
(c) O2 | (3) 78 |
(d) CO2 | (4) 21 |
(a)-3 , (b)-1 , (c)-2 , (d)-4
(a)-1 , (b)-3 , (c)-2 , (d)-4
(a)-3 , (b)-1 , (c)-4 , (d)-2
(a)-2 , (b)-4 , (c)-1 , (d)-3