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.

 Favourable Conditions for Temperature Inversion are: Long winter nights Cloudless and clear sky Dry air near the ground surface Slow...
There are four kinds of inversions: surface, valley, subsidence and frontal. Surface temperature inversion: It is developed when air is cooled...
Effects of low-level inversion: Convective clouds cannot grow high enough to produce showers. visibility may be greatly reduced below the...
In high mountains or deep valleys, sometimes, the temperature of the lower layers of air increases instead of decreasing with elevation along a...
Surface temperature inversion is developed when air is cooled because of contact with a colder and becomes cooler than the overlying atmosphere....
An air mass is a large body of air having little horizontal variation in temperature and moisture. The homogenous surfaces, over which air masses...
 The air masses are classified into 5 types according to their source regions. These are:    Source regions Air masses...
An air mass is a large body of air having little horizontal variation in temperature and moisture. Air masses form over large surfaces with...
The following are the characteristics of air mass: It has nearly uniform conditions of temperature and humidity at any given level of altitude....
Earths atmosphere is heated up because of the following three important processes. They are Conduction: It is a process in which heat flows from...
Earth emits mostly Longwave radiation. Solar energy enters our atmosphere as shortwave radiation in the form of ultraviolet UV rays and visible...
Coriolis force is an apparent force caused by the earth’s rotation. The Coriolis force is responsible for deflecting winds towards the...
Coriolis force is an apparent force caused by the earth’s rotation.  It causes an apparent deflection of the path of an object that...
There are three ways in which convergence can occur. These are: Between an oceanic and continental plate. Between two oceanic plates. Between...
Oxbow lake is a small lake located in an abandoned meander loop of a river channel. They are U-shaped or curved bends in a river that are cut off...
The examples of Oxbow lakes are: Lake Chicot: It is the largest natural lake in the state of Arkansas and the largest oxbow lake in North...
Kanwar lake is the largest oxbow lake in India and in Asia. It is a freshwater lake located in the Begusarai district and is the only Ramsar site...
Oxbow lakes are usually formed in flat, low-lying plains close to where the river empties into another body of water. On these plains, rivers...
The process of erosion, the wearing away of earth, plays an important part in the formation of waterfalls. When a river or stream flows over hard...
A peneplain (an almost plain) is a low-relief plain which is formed as a result of stream erosion. It is produced by fluvial erosion that would,...