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Kerala PSC General Awareness Book Study Materials 1 Page 125
Book's First PageSSC CGL GENERAL AWARENESS Pointers Success Tip Polity and Constitution GSAT-19E is scheduled by the Indian Space Research l Indirect Democracy provides Representative Organisation for launch aboard a Geosynchronous Government Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III on 20 January 2017 l The main duty of the Legislature is enacting laws l Members of the Union Public Service Commis- SSC Graduate Level Tier-I Exam sion are appointed by the President Held on: 26.10.2014 (Second Sitting) l Laski said, “A state is known by the rights that it maintains” Ancient History Economy l Chandragupta Maurya spent his last days at Sravanabelgola l Interest paid to a bank for a crop loan is a fac- tor payment l Buddha died in the year 483 BC l Economic growth refers to continuous growth Success Tip of per capita real income over a period of time Buddha died at Kusinara, present day Kushinagar U.P. in an economy l The famous Jain centre in South India is locat- l Correct Statements about Economy: ed at Sravanabelgola ä The central problem of an economy is the prob- lem of allocation of resources Success Tip ä Economy faces the problem of utilisation of Shravanabelagola is located near Channa- resources rayapatna of Hassan district of Karnataka ä Economy faces the problem of growth of re- l The Asokan Inscriptions were engraved in Brah- sources mi l In the case of direct taxes, the payment liability Medieval History and the ultimate burden of the tax lies upon the person on whom it has been imposed l Jahangir, a Mughal Emperor prohibited the use l Capitalism Is based on the principle of surplus of tobacco value Physical Geography l If only a part of the labour force employed by a l Harmattan blows in Sahara desert from firm can be dismissed at any time and without l The forest in Silent Valley of Kerala is an exam- pay, the total wages and salaries paid by the firm must be considered a variable cost ple of tropical rainforest l The loss of water in the form of water droplets is Physics called Guttation l Herman Hollerith had perfected his tabulating Success Tip system and developed a machine called Tabu- lation Engine Guttation is the exudation of drops of xylem sap on the tips or edges of leaves of some vascular plants Success Tip The machine was developed to help process data for General Geography the 1890 U.S. Census. It spawned a class of l Titicaca lake is called ‘Honeymoon Lake’ machines, known as unit record equipment, and the Success Tip data processing industry l The velocity of light is 3 × 108 m/sec Lake Titicaca is a large, deep lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. By volume of water l A seconds pendulum is a pendulum whose time and by surface area, it is the largest lake in South period is 2 seconds America Success Tip l The busiest ocean from the point of view of trade A seconds pendulum is a pendulum whose period is is Atlantic Ocean precisely two seconds; one second for a swing in one l The biggest delta in the world is the Ganges Delta direction and one second for the return swing, a frequency of 1/2 Hz. A pendulum is a weight l Annaimudi peak is located in the Sahyadri suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely Success Tip l A jug is filled the brim with water at 0°C. A piece It is the highest peak in the Wester n Ghats of ice floats in it. The moment the ice melts and South India, at an elevation of 2,695 metres water level is unchanged l Commercially important cotton fibres are l Absorption of water from cut ends of stems dis- epider-mal hairs of seeds proves the cohesion-tension theory SGPE-130