FREE Mock Test For SSC,RAILWAY,BANKING,CT,BED,OTET(21.05.2021)-ORSP

● The Constitution of India puts a limit on the size of the Lok Sabha to 550 elected members, apart from 2 members nominated by the President to represent the Anglo-Indian community.

● As per Article 81 the Lok Sabha should not consist of more than 550 elected members.

● Article 331 states that only 2 members can be nominated by the President to represent the Anglo-Indian community.

● The retirement age of the Supreme Court Judges is 65 Years as per Constitution of India.

● It consists of the chief justice of India and a maximum 34 number of Judges.

● The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial court under the Constitution of India.

● ‘El Nino’ refers to a temperature anomaly in the Pacific Ocean.

● The unusual winds cause warm surface water from the equator to move east, toward Central and South America.

● The Pacific Ocean is the largestand deepest ocean in the world.

● Torah is the religious text of the Jews.

● Granth Sahib is the sacred scripture of Sikhism.

● The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha.

● Tripitaka is the sacred book of Buddhism.

* RH Whittaker proposed the five kingdoms of classification.

* The five kingdoms classification is as follows-

Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia.

* The classification has been based on thallus organization, cell structure, mode of nutrition, reproduction and phylogenetic relationship.

• The Sundarbans is a natural regionin the Bengal region comprising Eastern India and Bangladesh.
• It is the largest single block of tidalhalophytic mangrove forest in the world.
• The Sundarbans covers approximately 10,000 square kilometres of which 60 per cent is in Bangladesh with the remainder in India.
• It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

• The Sundarbans is a natural regionin the Bengal region comprising Eastern India and Bangladesh.
• It is the largest single block of tidalhalophytic mangrove forest in the world.
• The Sundarbans covers approximately 10,000 square kilometres of which 60 per cent is in Bangladesh with the remainder in India.
• It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

● The Ajanta Cave Paintings are a testimony to the golden age of Buddhism in India.

● These paintings had aneducational function, presenting to the community the teachings of Buddha and his various reincarnations.

● The Basic Teachings of Buddha are:

1) The Three Universal Truths

2) The Four Noble Truths

3) The Noble Eightfold Path

Hence, option B is the correct answer.

• Largest forest cover in the country in terms of area-
  Madhya Pradesh (77,414 sq. km)> Arunachal Pradesh (66,964 sq. km)> Chhattisgarh (55,547 sq. km)
• In terms of percentage of forest cover with respect to the total geographical area-Lakshadweep with (90.33%)> Mizoram (86.27%)> Andaman and Nicobar Island (81.73%)