SSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers
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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
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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-
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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-
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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
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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
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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
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