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.

Heating by solar energy causes the water to expand. That is why near the equator the ocean water is about 8 cm higher in level than in the middle...
Ocean currents have a number of direct and indirect effects on human activities.  West coasts of the continents in tropical and subtropical...
Westerlies are the Permanent winds that blow in the middle latitudes. They blow from the subtropical high-pressure belts towards sub-polar...
At mid-latitudes, the permanent winds blow from the west towards the east direction. The name of these permanent winds comes from the direction...
Canada has the most natural lakes in the world followed by Russia and USA. About 9% of Canada’s surface area is covered by lakes. The Great...
The latitudes and longitudes are commonly referred to as geographical coordinates. They provide a systematic network of lines upon which the...
The two main longitudes are the Prime Meridian and the 180° meridian. The two longitudes divide the earth into two equal halves, the Eastern...
All parallels north of the equator are called north latitudes and all parallels south of the equator are called south latitudes. The value of...
The important parallels of latitudes are: The equator (0°) The North Pole (90°N)  The South Pole (90° S) Tropic of Cancer...
Earth's magnetic field is strongest at the poles and weakest at the equator. The Earth's magnetic field resembles that of an enormous bar magnet....
The magnetic field varies in strength over the earth's surface. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakest at the equator and strongest at the...
Polar jet stream and a Subtropical jet stream are the two main hemispheric jet streams. The polar jet streams form between the latitudes of 50...
The wind circulation around a low is called cyclonic circulation. A cyclone is any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low...
Tropical cyclones originate and intensify over warm tropical oceans. The conditions favourable for the formation and intensification of tropical...
A cyclone is any large system of winds that circulates about a centre of low atmospheric pressure in a counterclockwise direction north of the...
Effects of cyclones: Seawater enters the low-lying coastal areas, causing severe loss of life and property.  It also reduces the fertility...
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), classified the low-pressure systems in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea on the basis of maximum...
For calculating the value of output, the mining and quarrying sector is divided into two broad groups viz., Major Minerals and Minor...
Minor minerals are those, which are declared as such by the Central Government in the exercise of the powers conferred by Section I (a) of the...
Russia has the largest forest area in the world. About  815 million hectares of land in Russia is covered by forest. Brazil, the United...