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The Correct Answer is North Atlantic Ocean

Key Points

• The  Sargasso Sea is located in the middle of the North Atlantic ocean. Hence option 2 is Correct.
• It is the only sea on Earth that has no coastline.
• The currents are the North Atlantic current, the Gulf stream, the North Atlantic Equatorial current, and the Canary current.
• The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre.
• The Sargasso Sea is named for the Sargassum seaweed that creates its unique ecosystem. This Sea has been called a golden floating rainforest.

Additional Information

• The Sargasso Sea’ is found in the center of the Atlantic Ocean
• Sargassum also provides essential habitat for shrimp, crab, fish, and other marine species that have adapted specifically to these floating algae.
• Commercial fish, such as tuna, and birds also migrate through the Sargasso Sea and depend on it for food.

The correct answer is McMahon Line.

Key Points

• McMahon line is between India and China.
• Sir Henry McMahon negotiated the boundary agreement at Shimla Accord in the year 1913-14.
• India shares 2^nd longest border with China.
• On the northern front, China claims Aksai Chin in Ladakh UT.
• Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Sikkim shares a border with China.
• Land borders of India

The correct answer is option 3.

Key Points

Rainfall in Rajasthan

• The typical orientation of the Aravalli Range is the root cause of scant rain in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan receives scanty rainfall due to two main reasons:

• The Bay of Bengal branch of the Indian monsoon loses its moisture by the time it reaches the northwestern part of India where Rajasthan is located.
• And the Arabian sea branch of the monsoon flows parallel to the Aravalli Mountains and reaches the northern part of India but does not shed moisture over Rajasthan.
• The winds do not come across any barrier to cause the necessary uplift to cool the winds

The correct answer is 1, 2 and 3.

Key Points

• Project Tiger is an ongoing Centrally Sponsored Scheme launched in 1973 by the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change to provide central assistance for tiger conservation in designated tiger reserves.
• The Project Tiger is administered by the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) which is a statutory body of the Ministry, to perform supervisory or coordination roles.
• The tiger reserves are constituted on a core/buffer strategy. The core areas have the legal status of a national park or a sanctuary, whereas the buffer or peripheral areas are a mix of forest and non-forest land, managed as a multiple-use area.
• The Project Tiger **aims to foster an exclusive tiger agenda in the core areas of tiger reserves, with an inclusive people-oriented agenda in the buffer zone.**​
• The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has announced the Biodiversity Day 2022 theme: “Building a shared future for all life”.

Additional InformationInternational Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) ​:

• ​Biodiversity refers to the variety of living species on Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi.
• The United Nations has proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues.
• When first created by the Second Committee of the UN General Assembly in late 1993, 29 December (the date of entry into force of the Convention of Biological Diversity), was designated The International Day for Biological Diversity.
• In December 2000, the UN General Assembly adopted 22 May as IDB, to commemorate the adoption of the text of the Convention on 22 May 1992 by the Nairobi Final Act of the Conference for the Adoption of the Agreed Text of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The correct answer is Saffron.

Key Points

• Karewas are formations that are embedded in moraines.
• These are glacial clay deposits that are found famously in the valley of Kashmir and Bhadarwah Valley of Jammu, better known as Jhelum Valley.
• Thus, we can say that Karewas are neither grasslands nor tribes nor local winds
• The Kashmir Himalayas are also famous for Karewa formations, which are **useful for the cultivation of Zafran, a local variety of saffron.**​

Additional Information

• Some of the important passes of the Kashmir Himalayas are  Zoji La on the Great Himalayas, Banihal on the Pir Panjal, Photu La on the Zaskar and Khardung La on the Ladakh range.
• Some of the important fresh lakes such as Dal and Wular and salt water lakes such as Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are also in this region.
• This region is drained by the river Indus, and its tributaries such as the Jhelum and the Chenab

The correct answer is Kerala.

Key Points

• Thorium is produced from ilmenite and monazite deposits found along the coast of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
• Uranium and Thorium are the major nuclear minerals.
• However, rich deposits of uranium are found in the states of Jharkhand, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
• Thorium is used to make ceramics, welding rods, camera and telescope lenses, fire brick, heat resistant paint and metals used in the aerospace industry, as well as in nuclear reactions.
• Thorium has the potential to be used as a fuel for generating nuclear energy.
• Thorium is radioactive and can be stored in bones.
• Because of these facts it has the ability to cause bone cancer many years after the exposure has taken place.
• Breathing in massive amounts of thorium may be lethal. People will often die of metal poisoning when massive exposure take place.

The correct answer is Nepanagar.

Key Points

• Nepanagar is famous for the Newsprint industry.
• Nepanagar is an industrial township in Burhanpur district in the state of Madhya Pradesh.
• Nepa Mills Limited which was earlier known as The National News Print Ltd.
• It was originally floated by a private entrepreneur in 1947 and the management was taken over by the Madhya Pradesh Government in 1949 and became a Central Government Company in 1959.
• It is the first indigenous newsprint manufacturing unit in the country.
• The word "NEPA" is coined by the National Environment Protection Authority.

The correct answer is Raniganj.

Key Points

• Raniganj Coalfield along the Western bank of river Damodar was the first coal mine in India mined.
• Raniganj coalfield, West Bengal is the largest coalfield in India, belonging to the Gondwana Super Group 1
• Mining in this region dates back to the British period.
• Initially, coal mining was confined to open cast mines only, but gradually it was extended to the underground also.
• Coal fire in Raniganj coalfield is either because of fire infection from adjacent fire-affected coal seams or anthropogenic activities or spontaneous **combustion of coal.**​

Additional Information

Jharia: 

• Jharia is a neighborhood in Dhanbad city in Jharkhand state, India.
• Jharia's economy is heavily dependent on the local coal fields, which are used to make coke.

Dhanbad: 

• Dhanbad is the second-most populated city in the Indian state of Jharkhand after Jamshedpur.
• It ranks as the 42^nd largest city in India and is the 34^th largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India.

Asansol: 

• Asansol is situated about 210 km NW of Kolkata.
• It is the main town in this coalfield.

The correct answer is Bhil.

Key Points

• Bhil is the largest tribal group in India as per the 2011 Census. They constitute approximately 38% of the total scheduled tribal population of India. Bhil tribes are found in the states of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, as well as in Tripura.
• Gond is the second-largest tribe, with a population of 4,357,918 constituting 35.6%.
• The next four populous tribes are Kol, Korku, Sahariya, and Baiga.
• These six tribes constitute 92.2% of the total ST population of the State.

The correct answer is ​94,163 sq km.

Key Points

Bihar:

• Bihar, the ancient land of Buddha, has witnessed the golden period of Indian history.
• It is the same land where the seeds of the first republic were sown and which cultivated the first crop of democracy.
• Bihar, a state in the eastern part of the country is the 12^th largest in terms of geographical area and 3^rd largest by population.
• The State has a geographical area of 94,163 sq km which is 2.86% of the total geographical area of the country.
• Such fertile is the soil that has given birth to numerous intellectuals who spread the light of knowledge and wisdom not only in the country but in the whole world.
• The state has its capital at Patna, which is situated on the bank of the holy river Ganga.
• The state as it is today has been shaped