{"id":28457,"date":"2024-02-20T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/?p=28457"},"modified":"2024-02-20T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T09:32:21","slug":"upsc-prelims-2022-question-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/upsc-prelims-2022-question-30\/","title":{"rendered":"UPSC Prelims 2022 &#8211; Question 30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Here is  Question No. 30 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_73 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d300a10201c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d300a10201c\"  \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/upsc-prelims-2022-question-30\/#Q30_Consider_the_following_pairs\" title=\"Q30. Consider the following pairs:\">Q30. Consider the following pairs:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Q30_Consider_the_following_pairs\"><\/span>Q30. Consider the following pairs: <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>               Wetland                            Lake Location<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Hokera Wetland          Punjab<\/li><li>Renuka Wetland         Himachal Pradesh<\/li><li>Rudrasagar Lake        Tripura<\/li><li>Sasthamkotta Lake    Tamil Nadu<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>How many pairs given above are correctly matched?<br>a) Only one pair<br>b) Only two pairs<br>c) Only three pairs<br>d) All four pairs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Answer &#8211; B<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Pair 1 is incorrectly matched<\/strong>. Hokera Wetland is located in Jammu and Kashmir, not Punjab. Hokera wetland is about 10 km from Srinagar. It is a natural perennial wetland contiguous to the Jhelum basin.<\/li><li><strong>Pair 2 is correctly matched.<\/strong> Renuka Wetland is the largest natural lake in Himachal Pradesh. It is a natural wetland with freshwater springs and inland subterranean karst formations.<\/li><li><strong>Pair 3 is correctly matched.<\/strong> Rudrasagar Lake, also known as Twijilikma, is a lake located in Melaghar, Tripura, India. The Government of India\u2019s Ministry of Environment and Forest has identified Rudrasagar as one of the wetlands of National Importance for Conservation and sustainable use based on its bio-diversity and socio-economic importance. The lake is designated as a Ramsar site. A lowland sedimentation reservoir in the northeast hills, fed by three perennial streams discharging to the River Gomti.<\/li><li><strong>Pair 4 is incorrectly matched.<\/strong> Sasthamkotta is located in the Kollam district of Kerala, not Tamil Nadu. 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Consider the following pairs:<br \/>\nWetland Lake     Location<br \/>\nHokera Wetland  Punjab<\/p>\n<p>Renuka Wetland  Himachal Pradesh<br \/>\nRudrasagar Lake  Tripura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1644],"tags":[232,515,231],"class_list":["post-28457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upsc-prelims","tag-upsc","tag-upsc-cse","tag-upsc-prelims"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28474,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28457\/revisions\/28474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edukemy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}