TNPSC - Geography Exam Material Part 1

1.      “Spices and Tea” are the two important crops for the foreign exchange earns to India.

2.      ISRO Headquarters – Bangalore

3.      Bandipur Sanctuary – Karnataka

4.      “Methane” – Global Warming gas

5.      First Jute Spinning Mill was started at “Rishra”

6.      Total Area of Tamilnadu – 1,30,000 sq.km

7.      Narmada river rises near – “Amarkantak”

8.      “Haryana” – State has the largest area under forest

9.      Chandraprabha wild Sanctuary is located in “Uttar Pradesh”

10.  Bhopal records high amount of rainfall in june which belongs to the season of “South-West Monsoon”

11.  TamilNadu gets more rainfall during – North-East Monsoon Season

12.  “Rajasthan” states is major producer of copper

13.  “Bokaro” steel plant has been set up with the assistance of U.S.S.R

14.  Local supply of coal is not available to the iron and steel plant at “Bhadravathi”

15.  Points to Remember:

·         Magnetite and Haematite – Iron

·         Cuprite – Copper

·         Bauxite – Aluminium

·         Silver – Argentine

16.  Biggest Oil Refinery in India – Koyali

17.  The Enron power project is in – Maharastra

18.  Silvassa is the capital of the Union territory of “Dadra & Nagar Haveli”

19.  Maximum number of tribal population in India consists of “Gonds”

20.  The New railways coach factory has been set up in Punjab at “Kapurthala”

21.  Coal Mining large in

·         Madhya Pradesh

·         West Bengal

·         Jharkand

22.  Aravalli is fail to cause Orographic precipitation in Rajasthan because “they lie parallel to the direction of the wind”

23.  Aravalli Mountain range – Rajasthan

24.  Points to Remember :

·         High pressure – Trichirapalli boiler point

·         Alumina plant – Mettur

·         Copper smelting - Khetri

25.  Important Points to Remember :

·         Steel Industry – Salem

·         Sugar Industry – Mohanur

·         Paper Industry – Pugalur

·         Cement Industry – Ariyalur

26.  National physical Oceanographic Laboratory – Goa

27.  Now-a-days climatic accidents are attributed to “El nino”

28.  Holland Currency – “Deutch”

29.  Dances State Wise

·         Andra Pradesh – Kuchipudi

·         Tamil Nadu – Bharathanatyam

·         Kerala – Kathakali

·         Orissa – Odissi

30.  Kerala – “State Valley” Located

31.  13^th Oil Refinery in India – “Narimanam(Panagudi)”

32.  Best Natural Port in India – Mumbai

33.  “Parambikulam Aliyar Dam” – is a joint venture of Tamil Nadu and Kerala

34.  Kaziranga National Park – “Rhinoceros”

35.  760 Km long Konkan railways passes through

1.      Kerala

2.      Karnataka

3.      Goa

4.      Maharastra

36.  Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant is created with assistance of “Russia”

37.  Indian Sub Continent has a huge land mass – “Gondwana Continent”

38.  In Indian State – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal have a common border with “Bhutan” Country

39.  Cencus 2011 – Bihar – Lowest Literacy Rate

40.  Points to Remember :

Mumbai Port – Petroleum Products and Dry Cargo

Tidal Port – Kandla

New Manglore – Kudermukh iron ore

Cochin – Natural Harbour

41.  Kerala – Largest spice growing state in India

42.  Northern Western help in Cultivation of “Tea”

43.   River Wardha is the tributary of – Godavari

44.  World Largest dam – “ Hirakud Dam

45.  Largest Dam in India – Bhakra Nagar

46.  World Longest river – Nile

47.  Pearl Fishing – Tuticorin

48.  “Assam” states leads others in the production of tea

49.  Dehra Dun – Indian Institute of Petroleum

50.  Soil Exhaustion – checked by “Land Fallowing”