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.

Fluvial erosional landforms are the landforms created by the movement and energy associated with rivers and streams. There are two types of...
Potholes: Potholes are circular depressions formed because of stream erosion aided by the abrasion of rock fragments. Once a small and shallow...
The two main motions of Earth are rotation and revolution. Rotation is the movement of the earth on its axis. The movement of the earth around...
Venus is called Earth’s twin because Venus and Earth are almost the same size, have a very similar composition, and approximately have...
A heat budget is a perfect balance between incoming heat absorbed by the earth and outgoing heat escaping it in the form of radiation. Heat...
Albedo is the portion of solar energy reflected from the surface of the Earth back into space. It is a reflection coefficient and has a value of...
Yes, Convergent boundaries form mountains.  Examples: The Andes Mountain Range was formed by the convergence of the Nazca Plate beneath the...
When two tectonic plates collide, they form a convergent plate boundary.  A convergent plate boundary such as the one between the Indian...
The mid-ocean ridge system is an example of a divergent plate boundary. For example, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is formed in the Atlantic ocean...
When the two continental plates converge, oceanic sediments are squeezed and upthrust between the plates and these squeezed sediments appear as...
No, Japan lies on the Islands formed because of convergence between a continental plate (Eurasian) and an oceanic plate (Philippine sea...
Earth’s crust is divided into two main types. They are the oceanic crust and the continental crust. Oceanic crust: Oceanic crust extends...
The tectonic plates move because the heat from radioactive processes within the planet’s interior causes the plates to move, sometimes...
Examples of continent-continent convergent boundaries are: Himalaya Mountains created by the collision of the India Plate with the Eurasian...
Examples of ocean-continent convergence are: Formation of Andes Mountains and the Peru Trench because of subduction of the Nazca Plate under...
Convergent plate boundaries are formed where the crust is destroyed as one plate dived under another. The location where the sinking of a plate...
These rates at which tectonic plates move vary considerably. The Arctic Ridge has the slowest rate (less than 2.5 cm/yr), and the East Pacific...
In ocean-ocean convergence, two oceanic plates converge or collide. The denser plate subducts into the asthenosphere below the convergence zone....
The convergent boundary between the Pacific and Mariana plates is an example of ocean-ocean convergence. It includes the Mariana Islands arc and...
Atlantic Ocean growing by a few centimeters every year because of sea floor spreading. Seafloor spreading occurs at divergent plate boundaries as...