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.

Ooze contains both organic sediments from marines remains and inorganic sediments from muds. The ooze is further classified into two types. They...
Terrigenous deposits are deposits of mud, sand, gravel, and volcanic materials, derived from the denudation of continental rocks. The main...
Water vapour present in the air is known as humidity. It is expressed quantitatively in different ways. The actual amount of water vapour present...
When the humidity is high, there is a lot of water that can be used to make clouds. This results in rain or snow. The larger the amount of water,...
The process of continuous condensation in free air helps the condensed particles to grow in size. When the resistance of the air fails to hold...
Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the Earth. Precipitation forms in the clouds when...
Rain is caused because of three main phenomena of the hydrologic cycle. They are Evaporation: Water is absorbed from different water bodies, a...
Humidity: Water vapour present in the air is known as humidity. It is expressed quantitatively in different ways. The actual amount of water...
Evaporation is a process by which water is transformed from liquid to a gaseous state. Heat is the main cause of evaporation. The temperature at...
Marine deposits are sediments that come from different sources by different means and it settle down in the ocean floor. Marine deposits are...
All waters in nature, whether rainwater or ocean water, contain dissolved mineral salts. Salinity is the term used to define the total content of...
Salt in the ocean comes from two sources: runoff from the land and openings in the seafloor. Rocks on land are the major source of salts...
Of the five ocean basins, the Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest. The surface waters of the North Atlantic have higher salinity than those of any...
The factors that affect the salinity of seawater are mentioned below:  The salinity of water in the surface layer of oceans depend mainly...
Ocean deposits are the sediments that settle down on the ocean floor. They come from different sources and by different means. The following are...
Ooze is mud sediment on the bottom of an ocean or lakebed formed from the accumulation of skeletal and organic remains of microscopic organisms...
Terrigenous Deposits Pelagic Deposits The main sources of Terrigenous deposits are terrestrial sediments.  Pelagic deposits can...
Any deposit of insoluble material, primarily rock and soil particles, transported from land areas to the ocean by wind, ice, and rivers, as well...
Ridges, hills, seamounts, guyots, trenches, canyons, etc. are minor ocean reliefs.  Mid-Oceanic Ridges: A mid-oceanic ridge is composed of...
Oceans are mainly used for the following purposes: Transportation:Around 80 per cent of global trade by volume and over 70 per cent of global...