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Test your knowledge on the geological rock systems and history of India with this quiz.

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1. Which rock system is known to have formed about 4 billion years ago?

   - a) Dravidian Rock System

   - b) Jurassic System

   - c) Aryan Rock System

   - d) Archaean Rock System

   **Answer: d) Archaean Rock System**

2. The rocks formed due to the solidification of molten magma are from the:

   - a) Dravidian Rock System

   - b) Dharwar System

   - c) Vindhyan System

   - d) Archaean Rock System

   **Answer: d) Archaean Rock System**

3. Dharwar System rocks are known to be:

   - a) Volcanic in origin

   - b) Azoic

   - c) Highly metamorphosed sedimentary rocks

   - d) Youngest rocks in India

   **Answer: c) Highly metamorphosed sedimentary rocks**

4. The Purana Rock System includes which two divisions?

   - a) Archaean and Dharwar System

   - b) Dravidian and Aryan Rock System

   - c) Cuddapah System and Vindhyan System

   - d) Upper and Lower Trap

   **Answer: c) Cuddapah System and Vindhyan System**

5. Where can the Cuddapah System rocks be best observed?

   - a) Karnataka

   - b) Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh

   - c) Ganga plain

   - d) Vindhyan mountains

   **Answer: b) Cuddapah district of Andhra Pradesh**

6. Which rock system is known for having diamond bearing regions?

   - a) Dharwar System

   - b) Vindhyan System

   - c) Archaean Rock System

   - d) Gondwana System

   **Answer: b) Vindhyan System**

7. The Dravidian Rock System was formed about:

   - a) 250 million years ago

   - b) 4 billion years ago

   - c) 600 – 300 million years ago

   - d) 1300-600 million years ago

   **Answer: c) 600 – 300 million years ago**

8. The Gondwana System derives its name from:

   - a) A mountain range

   - b) Gonds, the primitive people of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

   - c) A river

   - d) A region in Karnataka

   **Answer: b) Gonds, the primitive people of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh**

9. Which rock system covers a vast area of the Peninsular India due to volcanic outburst?

   - a) Tertiary System

   - b) Vindhyan System

   - c) Deccan Trap

   - d) Jurassic System

   **Answer: c) Deccan Trap**

10. What does the term 'Carboniferous' in geology imply?

   - a) Diamond bearing

   - b) Coal bearing

   - c) Iron bearing

   - d) Gold bearing

   **Answer: b) Coal bearing**