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.

The ocean floors can be divided into four major divisions:  The Continental Shelf The Continental Slope The Deep Sea Plain The Oceanic...
Oceanic Deeps or Trenches is the deepest part of the ocean. The trenches are relatively steep sided, narrow basins. They are some 3-5 km deeper...
The Atlantic Ocean has the highest salinity of the five oceans. There is a distinct decrease of salinity near the equator and at both poles. Near...
The ocean water conceals a considerable variety of landscapes very similar to its counterpart on the continents. There are mountains, basins,...
The floors of the oceans are rugged with the world’s largest mountain ranges, deepest trenches and the largest plains. These features are...
Download Now! Cyclone Anticyclone A cyclone is an area of low pressure where air masses meet and rise. An anticyclone is an...
The wind circulation around a high is called anticyclonic circulation. Around a high, it is called anticyclonic circulation. An anticyclone is an...
Anticyclone is a weather system with high barometric pressure at its centre, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise direction in the...
Glaciers are made of crystalline ice, snow, rock, sediment, and often liquid water that originates on land and moves downslope under the...
Masses of ice moving as sheets over the land (continental glacier or piedmont glacier if a vast sheet of ice is spread over the plains at the...
Glaciers form various glacial erosional and depositional forms like  DEPOSITIONAL LANDFORMS: Moraines: They are long ridges of deposits of...
Glaciers move basically because of the force of gravity. Glaciers begin forming in places where more snow piles up each year than melts. Soon...
A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly over land. Glaciers shape the land through processes of erosion, weathering, transportation and...
A region on the earth that is dominated by either high pressure cells or low pressure cells is called a pressure belt. The horizontal...
There is a pattern of alternate high and low-pressure belts over the earth. This is due to the spherical shape of the earth—different parts...
The pressure belts are not permanent in nature. They oscillate with the apparent movement of the sun. In the northern hemisphere in winter they...
The horizontal distribution of air pressure across the latitudes is characterised by high or low-pressure belts. They are The Equatorial...
Planetary Winds Planetary or permanent winds blow from high-pressure belts to low-pressure belts in the same direction throughout the year. They...
Differences in atmospheric pressure generate winds. At the Equator, the sun warms the water and land more than it does the rest of the globe....
Landforms are created in the arid region mostly by winds. Some landforms are also developed by water. Arid landforms are characterised by...