Geography Questions and Answers for UPSC

Aspirants preparing for the civil services examination and looking for brief and befitting answers to the questions based geography syllabus of the IAS exam have landed at the correct place. Physical geography, climate, resources, urbanization, etc. are the topics covered under geography and questions based on the same have been given below for the candidates’ reference.

Considering the vast UPSC Syllabus, BYJU’S brings to you a list of important questions along with their answers to prepare for geography, one of the main subjects for both, prelims and mains examination.

In this article, aspirants can get direct and aligned answers to geography questions, with a focus on the UPSC Mains General Studies-I paper. This will help candidates easily comprehend the syllabus and get straightforward answers to all their topic-related queries.

Catchment area: A river drains the water collected from a specific area, which is called its catchment area. River Basin: An area drained by a...
The Western Ghats are famous for their exceptionally high level of biological diversity and endemism and is recognized as one of the...
The Western Ghats are called Sahya Parvatam in Kerala. It is called Sahyadri in northern Maharashtra. It extends from the Satpura Range in the...
 Important features of Western Ghats: The Western Ghats run parallel to the western coast of India. Important rivers such as the...
The Western Ghats runs parallel to India’s western coast, approximately 30-50 km inland. The Ghats covers six states of India(States of...
Yes, Western Ghats is also called Sahyadri. The range is called Sahyadri in northern Maharashtra and Sahya Parvatam in Kerala. The Biligiri...
The Western Ghats are also known as the Sahyadri Hills. The Western Ghats extend from the Satpura Range in the north, go south past Goa, through...
Yes, Ooty is in the Western Ghats. It is located at a height of 2240 m above sea level. Ooty is surrounded by hills on all sides. The main four...
A river basin is an area drained by a river and all of its tributaries. A river basin is made up of many different watersheds.A watershed is a...
The Desert Development Programme was introduced as a centrally sponsored scheme in 1977- 78. It was launched to minimise the adverse effect of...
Hill Area Development Programmes were initiated during Fifth Five Year Plancovering 15 districts comprising all the hilly districts of Uttar...
A watershed is an area of land and water bounded by a drainage divide within which the surface runoff collects and flows out of the watershed...
India has a total installed power capacity is 388.84 gigawatt (GW) as of 30th September 2021. Out of this, around 12 percent, or 45.8 GW, is...
APSARA is India's first reactor. It is a light water swimming pool reactor, with Al- U alloy fuel elements that are enriched to 40% U/sup 235/....
India's first nuclear power station is located at Tarapur, near Bombay. It consisted of two boiling-water reactors (BWR), each of about 200 MWe...
The Western Ghats are located on the western side of the Deccan plateau. They lie parallel to the western coast. They are continuous and can be...
In order to arrest the accentuation of regional and social disparities, the Planning Commission introduced the ‘target area’ and...
HDAP was initiated during Fifth Five Year Plan. The features of the Hill Area Development Programme are:  It covers 15 districts comprising...
Under Hill area development Programme, the National Committee on the Development of Backward Area in 1981 recommended that all the hill areas in...
Important elements of Drought Prone Area Programme: Providing employment to the people in drought-prone areas and creating productive assets....