Prelims 2022: General Studies Paper I MCQs

Explanation :

• Statement 1 is incorrect because northern hemisphere experiences winter season at perihelion and summer season at aphelion.
• Statement 2 is correct because no volcanic eruption occurs in Baltic Sea; however, the basaltic rock found in Baltic Sea is transported by glacier.
• Statement 3 is correct because quartz is one of the important components of sand and granite. It consists of silica and sandstone which is a sedimentary rock, and after metamorphosis, it is converted into Quartzite.
• Statement 4 is correct because Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.
• Rhine river flows in Europe through Rhine graben (rift valley) and it divides Vosges block mountain and black forest.
• Statement 5 is incorrect because the Tinajani Basin, in which Lake Titicaca lies, is an intermontane basin. This basin is a pull-apart basin created by strike-slip movement along regional faults starting in the late Oligocene and ending in the late Miocene.