TEST-24- INSIGHTS IAS REVISION PLAN FOR PRELIMS 2019 – DAILY REVISION TESTS: 07 April 2019

Solution: C

Both statements are correct.

Solution: C

Both statements are correct.

Solution: A

“Korea Plus” is a strategic initiative between the Governments of India and South Korea “to promote, facilitate and retain Korean investments in India.

Solution: A

World Sustainable Development Summit is organised by The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI).

Solution: D

Port of Duqm is located in Oman.

Solution: C

The Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) is the process established in 2003 to prevent “conflict diamonds” from entering the mainstream rough diamond market by United Nations General Assembly Resolution.

Solution: C

India is not a member of Nuclear Suppliers group.

Solution: C

Both the statements are correct.

Solution: A

Asia Africa Growth Corridor is an economic cooperation agreement between the India and Japan.

Solution: A

The IAEA LEU Bank will be a reserve of LEU owned and controlled by the IAEA, and a mechanism of last resort for Member States in case the supply of LEU to a nuclear power plant is disrupted due to exceptional circumstances and the Member State is unable to secure LEU from the commercial market or by any other means.

Solution: D

TAPI Pipeline is gas pipeline between Turkmenistan and India.

Kazakhstan doesn’t share border with Afghanistan.

Solution: A

India is a founding member of IAEA.

Solution: D

Malaysia is not a member of BIMSTEC

Solution: C

Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is the use of radio waves to read and capture

information stored on a tag attached to an object. A tag can be read from up to several

feet away and does not need to be within direct line-of-sight of the reader to be tracked.

To read the information encoded on a tag, a two-way radio transmitter-receiver called

an interrogator or reader emits a signal to the tag using an antenna. The tag responds

with the information written in its memory bank. The interrogator will then transmit the

read results to an RFID computer program.

RFID tags can be read at phenomenal speeds without any labor. RFID readers can scan up to 200 tags simultaneously. Unlike barcodes, RFID tags do not require line of sight scanning and can be read in bulk (e.g., by the pallet).

RFID readers are costlier than barcode scanners.

Solution: A

Justification

Solution: B

Rat-hole mining involves digging of very small tunnels, usually only 3-4 feet high, which workers (often children) enter and extract coal. Rat-hole mining is broadly of two types. In side-cutting procedure, narrow tunnels are dug on the hill slopes and workers go inside until they find the coal seam.

The coal seam in hills of Meghalaya is very thin, less than 2 m in most cases. In the other type of rat-hole mining, called box-cutting, a rectangular opening is made, varying from 10 to 100 sq. m, and through that is dug a vertical pit, 100 to 400 feet deep.

Once the coal seam is found, rat-hole-sized tunnels are dug horizontally through which
workers can extract the coal.

When was it banned, and why?

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) banned it in 2014, and retained the ban in 2015, on grounds of it being unscientific and unsafe for workers. The state government has appealed the order in the Supreme Court.

Solution: C

The Global Climate Risk Index 2019 is released by German Watch analyses to what extent countries and regions have been affected by impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available — for 2017 and from 1998 to 2017 — were taken into account.

Solution: D

The National Waterway 1 or NW-1 or Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system is located
in India and runs from Haldia (Sagar) to Prayagraj across the Ganges, Bhagirathi and
Hooghly river systems. It is 1,620 km (1,010 mi) long, making it the longest waterway in India.

It is of prime importance amongst all the national waterways considering its locational advantages. The NW-1 passes through West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

Ganges river Dolphin species is found exclusively in freshwater habitat. In
Nepal, it inhabits clear water and rapids. In Bangladesh and India, individuals live in
rivers that flow slowly through the plains.

Solution: B

About 30 km from Patna, in Saran district, lies the town of Sonepur. It’s the site of what’s dubbed ‘Asia’s largest cattle fair’ — the buying and selling of cattle here has taken place for centuries, spread across an area of 500 acres.

Solution: D

BepiColombo is Europe’s first mission to Mercury. It will set off in 2018 on a journey to
the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it arrives at
Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data
during its 1 year nominal mission, with a possible 1-year extension.

The mission comprises two spacecraft: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury
Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). BepiColombo is a joint mission between ESA and the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), executed under ESA leadership.

Solution: C

Namdapha National Park was established as a wildlife sanctuary in 1972. It was declared a tiger reserve and national park in 1983. Total area of the park is about 1807.82 Km2. The park is located in the Changlang district of the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Namdapha National Park is famous for being the only park in India to have four big cat species, like leopard, tiger, clouded leopard and snow leopard.

Around 96 mammal species are found here of which 29 species are listed on Schedule I
of the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Namdapha lies along the turbulent Noa-Dihing River at the international border between India and Myanmar.

Solution: A

After causing alarm among maize growers in Karnataka, the Fall Armyworm has now surfaced in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.

Fall Armyworm (FAW), or Spodoptera frugiperda, is an insect that is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. In the absence of natural control or good management, it can cause significant damage to crops. It prefers maize, but can feed on more than 80 additional species of crops, including rice, sorghum, millet, sugarcane, vegetable crops and cotton.

The GI-tagged Pokkali is a saltwater-tolerant paddy grown in the coastal fields of Alappuzha, Ernakulam and Thrissur districts. Endemic to central Kerala, the variety is now grown in only over 5,000 hectares, a drop from over 25,000 hectares a few decades ago, due to high labour cost and poor returns.

Solution: C

The region encompassing the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountain range and the Tibetan Plateau is referred as the ‘Third Pole’ because it has the largest ice storehouse after north and south poles.

Disturbing global warming trends have become evident in this equally remote polar region covering 100,000 sq km with some 46,000 glaciers. Recent findings suggest that temperatures there have increased by 1.5 °C in the last 50 years and it is more than double the global average.

Solution: C
World’s First ‘floating’ nuclear power plant (FNPP) in Russia. The FNPP was designed to make it possible to supply electricity to hard-to-reach areas, regardless of transport infrastructure, landscape, and cost of fuel delivery.

Solution: A

Scientists have proven the existence of new form of matter called excitonium – which was first theorised almost 50 years ago.

Researchers from University of California and University of Illinois studied non-doped crystals of a transition metal— dichalcogenide titanium diselenide (1T-TiSe2).

Excitonium exhibits macroscopic quantum phenomena, like a superconductor and is made up of excitons, particles that are formed in a very strange quantum mechanical pairing.