Daily Quiz #70 UPSC Prelims Marathon – January 24, 2020

Explanation: Our planet’s rotation produces a force on all bodies moving relative to theEarth. Due to Earth’s approximately spherical shape, this force is greatest at the poles and least at the Equator.
The force, called the “Coriolis effect,” causes the direction of winds and ocean currents to be deflected.
In the Northern Hemisphere, wind and currents are deflected toward the right, in the Southern Hemisphere they are deflected to the left.

Explanation: A river is a large, natural stream of flowing water. Rivers are found on every continent and on nearly every kind of land. Rivers have always been important to people. In prehistoric times, people settled along the banks of rivers, where they found fish to eat and water for drinking, cooking, and bathing.
Indian Cities /Towns situated on the Banks of River
CitiesRivers
Surat Tapti/Tapi
Vijaywada Krishna
Hyderabad Musi
Badrinath Alaknanda
Jabalpur. Narmada
Durgapur Damodar
Gwalior Chambal
Kota Chambal
Dhaulpur Chambal
Jhansi Betwa
Jamshedpur Subarnarekha
Nasik Godavari
Ujjan Kshipra
Ahmedabad Sabarmati
Kolkata (London of East) Hugli
Aurangabad Kauna
Agra Yamuna
Delhi Yamuna
Allahabad Sangam of Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati
Haridwar Ganga
Kanpur Ganga
Patna Ganga
Srirangapatnam Kaveri
Tiruchirapalli Kaveri
Lucknow Gomti
Jaunpur. Gomti
Dibrugarh Brahmaputra
Guwahati Brahmaputra
Cuttack Mahanadi
Sambalpur Mahanadi
Sri nagar Jhelum
Madurai Vaigai
Panji Mandovi
Pune Mutha
Ayodhya Saryu (Ghaghra)

Explanation: The Penneru rises in an upland region on the Deccan plateau, 7 miles (11 km) west-southwest of Chik Ballapur in southeastern Karnataka. It flows north into Andhra Pradesh state and turns east and then southeast. After passage through a gap in the Eastern Ghats range, it again bends east toward the Coromandel Coast, emptying into the Bay of Bengal near Nellore. The river is seasonal, becoming a torrent after the rains and a thin stream during dry periods.
River Vamsadhara is an important east flowing river between Rushikulya and Godavari, in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states in India. The river originates in the border of Thuamul Rampur in the Kalahandi district and Kalyansinghpur in Rayagada district of Odisha and runs for a distance of about 254 kilometers, where it joins the Bay of Bengal at Kalingapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The total catchment area of the river basin is about 10,830 square kilometers.

Explanation: Changthang, simply meaning Northern Plateau in Tibetan, is a high altitude plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into South Eastern Ladakh, with vast highlands and giant lakes. From Eastern Ladakh Changthang stretches approximately 1600 km east into Tibet, as far as the state of Qinghai. All of it is geographically part of Tibetan plateau. It is the home of the Changpa nomads.
The economy of the region is based around the livestock of the Changpa, and the most important resource is the plants the animals graze on. The movement of the Changpa over one year limits the impact that their animals have on the grazing lands, the grasses of which are dead for 8 – 9 months of the year, and provide poor fodder during that time.
Pashmina wool is derived from the “Changthangi breed of Capra hircus goat”. This rare goat thrives only at an altitude of 12000 to 14000 ft in the Himalayan region where the temperature freezes down to – 40 degree centigrade & is found at no other place in the world. Pashmina fibers are finer and thinner (12-15 microns) than generic cashmere fiber (15-19 microns).

Explanation: During monsoon season in northeast India, rainwater gushes through the emerald valleys and deep gorges of Meghalaya, the“abode of the clouds.” The mountainous plateau between Assam and Bangladesh is one of the wettest places on Earth, and the Khasi tribes who inhabit these hills have developed an intimate relationship with the forest.