Daily Quiz: UPSC Prelims Marathon – March 29, 2019

Indian subcontinent was originally part of Gondwana continent. It was separated into South America, Africa, India, Australia and Antarctica in late cretaceous period. By drifting northward. Indian subcontinent got separated from various other continent. Indian plate later merged with Eurasian plate in the north.

Ladakhi belongs to Sino Tibetan family

Marathi belongs to Indo Aryan language family

Tamil belongs to Dravidian family

Khasi and Nicobarese language belongs to Monkhmer branch of Austric language

Damodar is east flowing river with rift valley due to down warping. Down Warp denotes a segment of the Earth’s crust that is broadly bent downward.

Mahogany is a kind of wood the straight-grained, reddish – brown timber of three tropical hardwood species extend through out the western Himalayas from Afghanistan to Nepal at an altitude of 7000ft. but not found in Himalayas. Mahogany is a commercially important lumber prized for its beauty, durability and color, and used for paneling and to make furniture, boats, musical instruments. And other items.

Godavari – 1500 km ( flows west to east)
Mahanadi – 857 km
Narmada – 1312 km (flows from east to west)
Tapi – 721 Km

Kolkata (22°33’N) is the nearest city to the Tropic of cancer (23 ½ °N) latitude.

Famous tribe of Andaman and Nicobar are Onge, Shompen, Jarwan, Nicobaries, Andamanis etc. They belong to the Negrto race.
Tribes                                  Race Islands
Shompen                         Mangoloid    Great Nicobar
Nicobaries                       Mangoloid   Great Nicobar
Onges                              Negroid    Little Nicobar
Sentinelese                      Negroid     Sentinel Island
Jarawa                             Negroid    Middle and South Andaman
Andamanis                       Negroid     Strait Island.