CSE · GS-1Official PYQ · CSE 2025 · Q16Geography · Physical Geography · 15 marks · 250 words
English
Discuss how the changes in shape and sizes of continents and ocean basins of the planet take place due to tectonic movements of the crustal masses.
हिन्दी
चर्चा कीजिए कि ग्रह के महाद्वीपों और महासागरीय बेसिनों के आकार और माप (साइज) में, क्रस्टल द्रव्यमानों की टेक्टोनिक गतिविधियों के कारण, परिवर्तन कैसे होते हैं।
Text taken verbatim from the commission's published question paper. Transcribed from UPSC’s question paper, CS(M) 2025 (English and Hindi). Source
Syllabus
Geography · Physical Geography
Salient features of world's physical geography.
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