Daily Quiz #1 UPSC Prelims Marathon – November 1, 2019

Explanation: The temperature required for wheat during growing season is around 15.5°C. The weather should be warm and moist during the early stage of growth and sunny and dry in the later stages. The average temperature of the hottest month should not exceed 20°C. A frost-free period of 100 days is usually required but some fast-ripening varieties may mature only in 90 days. The soil suitable for wheat is either light clay or heavy loam. The world’s best wheat comes from the chernozem soils in the ‘Black Earth’ region of the Ukrainian Steppes, the dark brown soil of North America and also the grey brown podzolic soils of the deciduous forest region.

Explanation: Gwadar is Pakistan’s largest infrastructural project since independence. After the completion of the first phase of Gwadar port, billions of dollars have been invested in Gwadar and in the next one or two years the investment can cross the figure of trillions. China is a major investor in Gwadar, and has spent $248 million in the first phase of Gwadar port.

Explanation: Moon is a non-luminous object because as we know that luminous objects emit light on their own while non-luminous objects emit light with the help of luminous objects.
Here sun is a luminous object so moon takes light from the sun and emits light in our surrounding and our environment.

Explanation: Evergreen forests are found on the eastern and western slopes of the Western Ghats in states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. They are also found in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The tropical wet evergreen forests in India are usually found in areas receiving more than 200 cm of rainfall and having a temperature of 15-30 degrees Celsius. They occupy about 7% of the earth’s surface. They are found mostly near the equator. These forests are dense and multi-layered. They harbour many types of plants and animals. The forests constitute an important part of the environment and ecology. These trees are an important component of the Forest Biology and ecosystem that helps to promote life in the ecosystem. This allows the plants and animal life to harmonize and live with one another in absolute peace. The evergreen forests are essential in not only promoting greenery on the planet, but they are also useful in the continual survival of animals and plants in the forest ecosystem. There are quite a few different plants and animals that exist in harmony with another for the continual survival of the species. This co-existing system of plants and animals leads to the existence of a biome. A biome is the collection of all wildlife and plants that coexist in a certain environment defined by certain geographical boundaries.

Explanation: Sonoran Desert, also called Desierto de Altar, arid region covering 120,000 square miles (310,800 square km) in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, U.S., and including much of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, part of Baja California State, and the western half of the state of Sonora. Subdivisions of the hot, dry region include the Colorado and Yuma deserts