Warm temperate climates (C) are defined in the Köppen climate classification as having a coldest month with an average temperature below 18°C but above −3°C. Baltic Sea with two branches – Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland is an inlet in the north. So, statement#2 is wrong, by elimination we arrive at answer A: 1 and 3 only. (c) Bth 1 and 2 [Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2019: History & Culture, All Sets with Explanations, Analysis. Trend continued with questions on Two humped camel, Himalayan Nettle, Irrawaddy Dolphin. But 3rd statement is related to environmental methane…. Soils in Warm Temperate Climates. Temperature can be a major deciding factor at altitudes more than 900 m. However, the primary classification of natural vegetation in India is based on rainfall. 242 : Mains-2021, © Copyright 2009-2019 Mrunal Patel, Gujarat, India | All Rights Reserved. The main ones are the Alps, the Carpathians, the Balkans, the Caucasus, etc. (c) 3 only UPSC examiner is not mandating you, as a non-IFS aspirant, must have impeccable command over zoology and botany. Spaargaren, J.A. So, #1 is right. Then ‘2’ contains extreme word ‘mandatory’ so it ought to be wrong, thus we arrive at 50:50 stage between A or D. (Pre19-SetA) Q25. (d) 1, 2 and 3 (c) 1 and 4 only In India, it is found in four states only- Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, and Uttarakhand. For the measurement/estimation of which of the following are satellite images/remote sensing data used? which occurs from 3,000 metres and extends upto snowline. (Important for UGC-NET, UPSC-CSE, SSC) NCERT Class 7 Geography Chapter 6: Natural Vegetation & Wildlife Completes Notes Part 1. ANS: ShankarIAS Environment Book (6th Ed) page 73. (b) Tobacco, cotton and rubbers Article 2: Wetlands should be selected for the List on account of their international significance in terms of ecology, botany, zoology, limnology or hydrology. (d) Waste to energy technologies 1000-2000 meters – Wet temperate forests are characterised by oak trees and chestnut trees. (c) Hydrogen fuel based automobiles They are also useful for the descriptive questions and essay paper in Mains. In 2019, few questions were ‘National Geographic Kids GK’ like viviparous snakes & herbivore turtles. Then go for PDF compilations for their bulleted version / mindmaps for faster revision on the Mains exam night. Livestock ranching is another major activity carried out in these areas due to the availability of natural grasses. In the south-west is the Iberian Peninsula which is made up of Spain and Portugal. For example, Economy Class11 has content on green revolution. Then remaining two options must be false because they contain extreme word, and GuessmastergiriTM Rule#2: dates, figures, numbers are always wrong so then #2 and #3 should be wrong because they’re mentioning number of horns / humps. (d) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 2, 3 and 4 only Thus there is a distinct summer and winter season. For current events, IndianExpress. Consider the following pairs : R&D prem resurfaces with H-CNG, Remote Sensing. Selective study from Class11-12 biology textbooks (For flora-fauna-zoology). Jan 13,2021 - Does Valley of flowers national park lie completely on the temperate alpine zone? Your email address will not be published. A serious player should be able to vaguely recall that Nagarjunasagar is associated with Andhra / Telangana, so D should be wrong because Agasthyamala is in parts of Tamilnadu and Kerala only. A large part lies in the temperate zone as it stretches from 35°N to 80°N latitude. They’re never easy. Why should we ignore timespan which is close to half of statement, when UPSC is checking minute details like creche visits 4/6 in maternity act. 160 : Prelim-2021 Thus Maharashtra (3) is lowest and Chattisgarh (1) is highest forest cover in % term. Please read the statement again. Irrawaddy river swimming was logical elimination through knowledge, it’s not Guessmaster-giri. The fabric and the things made from it are sold in local as well as national and international markets as high-end products. Remember that some questions are meant to test the Forest Service candidates. ANS: GuessmastergiriTM: Not Applicable. Then ,Answer should be 1 and 3 . Juniper, honeysuckle, artemesia etc. Steppe Climate - Temperate Grassland Regions. The Gulf of Lions extends from the easternmost spurs of Pyrenees and covers various lagoons, the Rhone River delta, limestone hills of Marseille. They extend for almost 700 miles in a crescent shape from the coastline of southern France (near Monaco) into Switzerland, then through northern Italy and into Austria, and down through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro – then ending in Albania on the rugged coastline of the Adriatic Sea. (c) Cotton, coffee and sugarcane The rivers of Europe are perennial being fed by melting snow or by the rain brought by the Westerlies. Which one of the following national parks lies completely in the Temperate alpine zone? (c) 2 and 4 only (c) Kaundinya gundla bhrameshwaram and papikonda wildlife sanctuaries and mukurthi national park NCERT Geography Class11 page 64: Agasthyamala biosphere reserve consists of Part of Thirunelveli and Kanyakumari Districts in Tamil Nadu and Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Pathanmthitta districts in Kerala. 2018: Pollution was the single largest sub-topic asked within Environment. The Alpine forests are found all along the Himalaya at altitude ranging between 2500 m to 3500 m. Valley of Flowers National Park - At 3352 to 3658 meters above sea level. The broad continent shelf on its west provides good fishing grounds and there are sheltered harbors along the indented coastline. Area under cultivation: Jowar: 5.1 million ha, while Oilseeds is 26.2. (b) 2-3-4-1 [Download] UPSC Mains-2020 Essay Paper, Including Topicwise last 28 YEARS Essay Question Papers (1993-2020) with booklist, strategy! Anti-Guessmaster question because GuessmastergiriTM Rule#1: extreme worded statements are wrong so statement #1 is wrong. The gas and liquid thus obtained can be used as fuels. ….Any Contracting Party shall have the right to add to the List further wetlands situated within its territory, to extend the boundaries of those wetlands already included by it in the List, or, because of its urgent national interests, to delete or restrict the boundaries of wetlands already included by it in the List. Proportionately the medium difficulty questions have increased than last year/. It is found in temperate and sub-alpine zones of the Himalayas, at an altitude from 2,400-4,000 metres above sea level. (b) 2 and 3 only It’s futile to make a compilation of such wildlife GK, because UPSC examiner can always ask something random or technical that only an IFS (Forest) candidate with B.Sc (Agriculture / Zoology / Botany) can attempt it. The Prime Meridian passes through London. Here, every statement contains extreme worded ‘only’ however any serious player would know that Asiatic lion is found only in Gir forest of Gujarat, India so #1 has to be true. so, D seems most appropriate. Class11 Chemistry textbook’s chapter on environmental chemistry. Sir you teach magnificently . I personally feel the question “(Pre18-SetA) Q32. (a) 1 and 2 only (a) They are considered harmful to marine ecosystem (a) Manas National Park (b) Namdapha National Park (c) Neora Valley National Park (d) Valley of Flowers National Park. The amount of annual rainfall has a great bearing on the type of vegetation. It is of the short lived green house gas , not decade or two. The main climatic factors are rainfall and temperature. (b) Mudumalai sathayamangalam and Wayanad wildlife sanctuaries and silent valley national park Hardier grains, such as barley, buckwheat, millet, oats, and wheat, are grown in the central and southern areas of this zone, where permanent frosts inhibit plant growth. Compared to conventional CNG, use of H-CNG can reduce emission of carbon monoxide up to 70% so #1 is wrong, because it doesn’t ‘eliminate CO emission’, it only reduces it. Rivers that flow into the Mediterranean Sea are Rhone (France) and Ebro (Spain). 41 : IFS(M)-2020 A continental moderate climate is another sub-type of temperate climates. ANS: ShankarIAS Environment Book (6th Ed) page 314. The areal extent of the Gulf of Riga is approximately 16,300 km². These landforms are result of glaciations of hard rock in the ancient times. As surrounded by a number of seas from all sides, Europe is an island rich continent. (Pre19-SetA) Q68. ANS: 2017-IndianExpress: (Pre19-SetA) Q35. Which one of the following are Agasthyamala biosphere reserve? Since the merger of Forest service Prelims with civil service, good number of questions have been asked from the agriculture subject of course 2019 is an exception but one swallow doesn’t make a summer. (Pre19-SetA) Q29. “[Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2019: Environment & Agriculture. 20 : CDS 2021-I (a) 1 and 2 only Why is there a great concern about the microbeads that are released into environment? (Pre19-SetA) Q27. Select the correct answer using the code given below: (a) 1 only So, pattern should be 3-_-_-1. (b) preservatives in processed foods The peninsula of Greece, known as the Balkan Peninsula and Italy extends into the Mediterranean Sea. Distribution Asked from two years old news. Moist alpine scrub: The moist alpine scrub is a low evergreen dense growth of rhododendron, birch etc. The Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea are two of its branches. Another branch is the Apennines (Italy, the Atlas (Africa and the Sierra Nevada Spain). Can you explain this answer? So that means Remote Sensing can help in both statement 1 and statement 3. there is only one such option D. Pyrolysis is a process of combustion in absence of oxygen or the material burnt under controlled atmosphere of oxygen. ANS: GuessmastergiriTM Rule#1 says extreme worded statements are ALWAYS wrong. Poultry industry recorded an excretion of reactive nitrogen compounds of 0.415 tonnes in 2016. If you try to make some logical connections that Chhattisgarh and Odisha or less urbanized compared to Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra (or that they’ve more Naxal problem due to forest-hiding areas) so they ought to have higher % forest cover, then you’ll be at 50:50 between C and D. NCERT: 11-12 Geography’s forest-vegetation related chapters. So op 1&2 correct. For high altitude animals, this is one of the most important zones. (c) fruit-ripening agents They release Nitrogen, once excreted nitrogen is converted into ammonia by UREASE engyme(microorganism in manure). UPSC examiner has accomplished that mostly by focusing on Contemporary Affairs that happened before 2018, and ensure that it was from outside the routine preparation sources. [Answerkey] UPSC Prelim-2019: Environment & Agriculture. It extends from Belgium in the East to France in the West and from the Czech Republic and south Germany in south to Switzerland and Austria in the North. And I don’t subscribe to the ‘Sapnaa-Theory’ of Delhi thugs that just because a term was mentioned in a random theHindu article, so you were suppose to get a divine epiphany that UPSC was going to ask in this much detail so you were supposed to make a research-paper note by yourself accordingly. ANS: Economic Survey 2017-18 Vol2 Ch.7 on Agriculture, Ref: Table 3. (b) The Recycled Plastic (manufacturing and usage) rules, 1999 Sir…. In 2018, UPSC asked about a low profile scheme “National Programme for Organic Production’ (NPOP)”- therefore, some over-enthusiastic candidates will go through governments OUTPUT OUTCOME BUDGET Document, to make a ‘half-blood-prince’ note for “all the low-profile government schemes”. Poultry industry release reactive nitrogen compounds into environment. Valley of flowers is completely in purple zone, while Namdapha’s some area may be in brown zone. Since PDF compilation makers donot have any cost of printing- They will go on to copy paste 50 dozen crop hybrid varieties mentioned in the Hindu newspaper and monthly updates on MSP /food-inflation ups and downs. (c) 2 and 4 only But question is saying AFTER A DECADE OR TWO, not WITHIN. To the south is the Mediterranean Sea. Requires knowledge of both elevation and State in … (b) 2 only It is very much like the Tundra biome. Rhine and Danube are international rivers because they pass through many countries. Difficulty: Tough. Ans: (c) Explanation: Kot Diji (now in the Sindh region of Pakistan) was an early Harappan site on the east bank of the Indus river and was excavated between 1955 and 1957.; Chanhudaro in Pakistan and Desalpur in Gujarat are mature Harappan sites. (a) 1 only (c) 1 and 3 only (d) They are often found to be used as food adulterants Difficulty: Tough because while NCERT Class11 ‘Practical work in geography’ has a dedicated chapter on this topic but 1) it doesn’t contain these keywords 2) most of the UPSC candidates donot go through that ‘practical work’ book anyways. Found in temperate and sub-alpine zones of the Himalayas, at an altitude from 2,400-4,000 metres above sea level, the existence of the plant has been traced across India, Bhutan, Nepal, China, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Difficulty: Medium to Tough. (Pre19-SetA) Q30. The average precipitation is 30 cm a year. (c) Neora valley national park Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn. 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