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Kerala PSC General Awareness Book Study Materials 1 Page 90
Book's First PageSSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers Success Tip l The Cobb- Douglas Production function Q = A A geographic information system (GIS) is a comput- ka L(1-a) is based on constant returns to scale er system for capturing, storing, checking, and dis- Success Tip playing data related to positions on Earth’s In economics, the Cobb–Douglas produ-ction func- surface. GIS can show many different kinds of data tion is a particular functional form of the production on one map. This enables people to more easily see, function, widely used to represent the technological analyze, and understand patterns and relationships relationship between the amounts of two or more inputs, particularly physical capital and labour, and l Among Ganga, Yamuna, Sutlej and Ravi, Sutlej the amount of output that can be produced by those is a Trans- Himalayan river inputs l Nagarjunasagar Project is located on the River l Monetary Policy in India is laid down and exe- Krishna cuted by Reserve Bank of India Success Tip Success Tip Nagarjuna Sagar Dam was built across the Krishna In India, the central monetary authority is river at Nagarjuna Sagar where the river is forming the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It is so designed as boundary between Nalgonda District in Telangana to maintain the price stability in the economy and Guntur district In Andhra Pradesh l The commodity for which India spends the larg- l Suez Canal joins Red Sea and Mediterranean est amount to import is Crude petroleum Sea l As per the 2011 census, the state with the larg- Success Tip est gap in male and female literacy is Rajasthan The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in l FII is termed as ‘Hot Money’ Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Success Tip Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It was construct- A foreign institutional investor (FII) is an investor ed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and or investment fund registered in a country outside 1869 of the one in which it is investing. Institutional in- l Sundarbans in West Bengal is regarded as vestors most notably include hedge funds, insur- “World heritage forest” ance companies, pension funds and mutual funds. Polity and Constitution Physics l Trade Union is not available on the Union List l On the moon, an astronaut cannot drink lem- Success Tip onade with the help of a straw because there is no atmosphere on the moon The Union List or List-I is a list of 100 items (the l A particle moving with uniform speed may have last item is numbered 97) given in Seventh Sched- uniform velocity ule in the Constitution of India on which Parliament l Device which uses sound waves for detection and has exclusive power to legislate. The legislative sec- ranging is called Radar tion is divided into three lists: Union List, State List Success Tip and Concurrent List. Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio l The term “closure” in Parliamentary terminolo- waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of gy implies stoppage of debate on a motion objects. It can be used to detect aircraft, ships, l Correctly matched: spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, weather Article 14 — Equality before law formations, and terrain Article 16 — Equal opportunities Article 17 — Abolition of Untouchability Chemistry Article 18 — Permission of military titles l Dry Ice is nothing but Solid carbon dioxide l Dr. Rajendra Prasad held office for two consec- Success Tip utive terms Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide. It is used Success Tip primarily as a cooling agent From 26 January 1950 – 14 May 19625. 61st Amend- l Calcium Silicate is obtained as slag in a blast ment Act reduced the voting age from 21 to 18 furnace l When H2 gas is allowed to expand from a region Economy of high pressure to a region of low pressure, the l A movement along the demand curve of a com- temperature of the gas increases modity occurs due to change in its own price l In the industrial production of vegetable ghee, l GNP calculation through Expenditure Method the process involved is reduction includes Gross Domestic Private Investments, l In 1986 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant of Depreciation Expenditures and Private Con- the former USSR had accident that caused es- sumption Expenditure etc. cape of radio nuclides into atmosphere SGPE-95