Geography - Questions and Answers - 05
626. The longest river in South India:
Godavari
627. The river that originates from Brahmagiri Hills in Coorg district of Karnataka:
Kaveri
628. The river which originates from Triambak Hills in Nasik district in Maharashtra:
Godavari
629. Which river is known as ‘Vridha Ganga’?
Godavari
630. Which river is known as ‘Dakshina Ganga’?
Kaveri
631. The second-longest west flowing river in India:
Tapti
632. The river that originates from the Amarkantak hills in Madhya Pradesh:
Narmada
633. The longest rift valley river in India:
Narmada
634. Which river originates from the Mahabaleshwar hills in Maharashtra?
Krishna
635. Which river originates from Betul district in Madhya Pradesh?
Tapti
636. Which Indian river is known as the salt river?
Luni
637. The longest river in the Indian peninsula:
Godavari
638. Which river is known as the twin or handmaid of Narmada?
Tapti
639. Which river finally lost in the marshy grounds of Rann of Kuchchh?
Luni
640. Tapti, Narmada, Mahi and Sabarmati drains into:
Gulf of Cambay
641. Khajuraho Temples are in Madhya Pradesh. These were built by the dynasty: Chandelles
642. Indravati, Manjira, Veinganga, Sabari, Purna are the important tributaries of:
Godavari
643. Fatehpur Sikri in Uttar Pradesh was built by ...... as his capital.
Akbar
644. Brihadiswara Temple at Thanjavur is also known as Rajarajeswara temple. It was built by:
Cholas
645. Nandadevi National Park is in:
Uttarakhand
646. The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere is mainly composed of which gases?
Hydrogen & Helium
647. Which layer of atmosphere reflects back radio waves transmitted from Earth & helps in radio propagation?
Ionosphere
648. Who was the first person to determine the circumference of the Earth?
Eratosthenes
649. Which islands are known as the 'rust belt' of Japan?
Shikoku Islands
650. The famous American river Mississippi flows into the Gulf known as.
The Gulf of Mexico
651. On which river is the famous Aswan Dam located?
Nile
652. Which important river of the world has no bridges over it?
Amazon
653. Mesopotamian civilization thrived in the area between which two rivers?
Tigris & Euphrates
654. People native to which country is known as 'Magyars'?
Hungary
655. Which river crosses the equator twice?
Congo River
656. Which is the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze
657. Which river is an example for forming a bird's foot delta?
Mississippi (USA)
658. Which river forms the famous Grand Canyon?
Colorado River (USA)
659. Which canal connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
Suez Canal
660. Name the deepest point in the Atlantic ocean, situated in the Puerto Rico Trench?
Milwaukee Deep
661. Name the only sea in the world without a coastline?
Sargasso Sea
662. Which ocean's part is the Sargasso Sea?
North Atlantic Ocean
663. Which is the smallest ocean in the world?
Arctic Ocean
664. Which sea was historically known as the 'Erythraean Sea'?
Red Sea
665. Which sea is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar?
Mediterranean Sea
666. The Calypso Deep is the deepest point of which sea?
Mediterranean Sea
667. In which Ocean is the famous 'Ninety East Ridge' situated?
Indian Ocean
668. Which countries are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar?
Morocco & Spain
669. Which is the only parallel that is a great circle?
Equator
670. Which is the largest circle of latitude?
Equator
671. What is the name of the climate zone which stretches between the Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn?
Tropical or Torrid zone
672. Which climate zone is most comfortable for a living?
Temperate zones
673. The area lies between Arctic- Antarctic Circles & Poles is known as.
The Frigid Zone
674. What is the meaning of the word 'Meridian'?
Mid-day
675. Which country is known as the 'Land of Midnight Sun'?
Norway
676. Which places on the earth experience six months of continual day & six months of the night?
Poles
677. What is the name of the low-pressure belt around the equator, caused by the great heat, making the air hot & therefore light?
The Doldrums
678. What is the name of the winds blowing between 30 degree north & south latitudes?
Trade winds
679. The winds blow outside the tropics, in the temperate zones and between 30 & 60 degrees north & south are known as
Westerlies
680. The weather in the area of which winds are characterised by a constant procession of cyclones & anti-cyclones?
Westerlies
681. Which area is known as a great belt of permanent anticyclones?
The Horse Latitudes
682. With the approach of the sky becomes dull and overclouded and there is heavy rain accompanied by lightning & thunder?
Cyclone
683. The state of the atmosphere when the barometer reads about 760 mm (1018 mb) or over is known as.
High pressure
684. If the reading of a barometer is about 740 mm (986 mb), it means a.
Low pressure
685. What is indicated by a sudden fall in the barometric reading?
Storm
686. Which are the great fold mountains of the world?
The Himalayas, Rockies, Andes & Alps
687. Graben or Rift valleys are the counterparts of which type of mountains?
Block mountains
688. Which type of mountains are also known as Horsts?
Block mountains
689. Which are the famous block mountains?
Vosges, Black forest & Hunsruck mountains
690. What are the examples of Igneous rocks?
Basalt, Granite, diorite, gabbro, dykes and sills
691. In what name is igneous rocks formed at some depth in the earth's crust known?
Plutonic rocks
692. Which type of igneous rocks are also known as Extrusive rocks?
Volcanic rocks
693. Which type of rocks are quarried for road making and polished as monuments and gravestones?
Igneous rocks
694. Which type of rocks are also known as stratified rocks?
Sedimentary rocks
695. Which type of rocks often contain fossils of animals, plants and other microorganisms?
Sedimentary rocks
696. What are the examples for mechanically formed sedimentary rocks?
Sandstones, Clay, Shale (mudstone)
697. Which is the major tectonic plateau of India?
Deccan Plateau
698. The Tibetan Plateau is an example for.
Intermont Plateau
699. The northwestern part of the Deccan Plateau is an example of.
Volcanic plateaux
700. River Luni originates from which mountain range?
Aravalli
701. In which state is the Pench river project situated?
Madhya Pradesh
702. In which state is the famous Castle Naggar Heritage site located?
Himachal Pradesh
703. What is the North-South distance of India?
3,214k.m.
704. What is the East-West distance of India?
2,933 k.m.
705. What is India's total land area?
3.28 million sq. k.m.
706. What per cent of the world's land surface area is covered by India?
2.4 per cent
707. Which is the seventh-largest country in the world?
India
708. What is the total length of India's coastline?
7,517k.m.
709. Which large plateau is situated between the Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats?
The Deccan Plateau
710. Which mountain ranges of India run parallel to the Bay of Bengal?
Eastern Ghats
711. Which mountain ranges are parallel to the Arabian Sea?
Western Ghats
712. Which country is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar & Palk Strait?
Sri Lanka
713. India shares a maximum land border with which country?
Bangladesh
714. Which is the important geographical line passing through India?
Tropic of Cancer
715. The Tropic of Cancer passes through------ states of India?
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716. Name the states through which the Tropic of Cancer passes?
Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram
717. The young or newer alluvial sediments deposited on the flood plains are known as -----?
Khadar
718. Which river is flowing through the desert type Rajasthan Plain?
Luni river
719. Which is the only Indian part of the Indus Plain?
Punjab-Haryana Plain
720. What is the local name of the fertile Punjab Plains?
Doab
721. Which is the largest part of the Northern Plains?
Ganga Plain
722. Which river is known as 'Tsang Po' in Tibet?
Brahmaputra
723. The Ganga & Brahmaputra join in Bangladesh and there after known as--------?
Padma
724. Which region of the Northern Plains is known as 'the Granary of India'?
The Punjab-Haryana Plains
725. What is the name of the shifting cultivation practised in North Eastern India?
Jhumming
726. Which is the largest plateau in India?
The Deccan Plateau
727. What is the shape of the vast Deccan Plateau?
Triangular
728. Which Indian Plateau has been formed by the eruption of basaltic lava flows about 65 million years ago?
The Deccan Plateau
729. Which Indian Plateau is famous for the black cotton soil?
The Deccan Plateau
730. What is the name of the water body that divides the Andaman & Nicobar island groups?
Ten degrees Channel
731. Which is the only active volcano in India?
Barren Island
732. The Saddle Peak, Mount Diavolo, Mount Koyob & Mount Thuiller are situated in--------?
Andaman & Nicobar islands
733. Which group of islands are broadly divided by the Eleventh Degree Channel?
Lakshadweep
734. How many islands are there in the Lakshadweep islands?
36
735. Which mountain range runs in a North East to South West direction along the Thar Desert?
The Aravalli Range
736. Which is considered as the oldest mountain range in India?
The Aravalli
737. Which mountain range separates the drainage basin of Ganga on the North from the Deccan Plateau on the South?
The Vindhya Range
738. Which mountain range is comprised of a series of seven mountains?
The Satpura Range
739. Which mountain range is situated between the Narmada & the Tapti rivers?
The Satpura
740. Which mountain range forms the Western boundary of the Deccan Plateau?
The Western Ghats (Sahyadri)
741. What is the length of the Western Ghats?
1600 KM
742. Which mountain range's important mountains are Pachmarhi & Amarkantak?
The Satpura
743. Which is the highest peak in peninsular India, situated in the Western Ghats?
Anamudi (2695 M)
744. Which range runs parallel to the Coromandel coast?
Eastern Ghats
745. Which is the highest peak in the Eastern Ghats?
Mahendragiri
746. The wettest places in the world Mawsynram & Cherrapunji belongs to which Indian state?
Meghalaya
747. Koyna, Tungabhadra and Bhima are the major tributaries of the....... river.
Krishna
748. What is the term for a partially enclosed body of water along the coast where freshwater from rivers and streams meets and mixes with saltwater from the ocean?
Estuary
749. The International Date Line is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, that runs from north to the South Pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of which ocean?
Pacific Ocean
750. The Bhimbetka rock shelters are archaeological heritage sites located in the Raisen District of state?
Madhya Pradesh
751. The atmospheric layer where ionization affects the transmission of radio waves is called.
Ionosphere
752. Which mountain hills in Tamil Nadu lie at the junction of the Eastern and Western Ghats?
Nilgiri Hills
753. Which is the mountain range that lies between the Tapthi river in the North and Kanyakumari in the south?
eastern Ghat
754. is the only river that flows through Rajasthan plain and reaches the Arabian sea through the marshes of Rann of Kachch?
Luni river
755. ----------------- is the second-longest river in Kerala.
Bharathapuzha
756. Name the volcanic island that belongs to the Andaman group of Island?
Barren Island
757. The Palakkad gap is the largest pass in Western Ghat. It connects Palakkad and -------
Coimbatore
758. Which was the first factory in India to produce Urea and Ammonium Sulphate?
Sindri
759. The northern part of the west coastal plain is known as?
Konkan
760. The first marine eco-sensitive zone in India is
Gulf of Kutch
761. the river is the only tributary of Indus, which flows fully in India?
Beas
762. The proportion of forest to the total geographical area of India, as envisaged by National Forest
33 per cent
763. The Kanha, Parma, Bandhavgarh, Satpura and Sanjay tiger reserves are in which state?
Madhya Pradesh
764. Name the 53-kilometre passage through the Hindu Kush mountain range, which connects the northern frontier of Pakistan with Afghanistan?
Khyber Pass
765. Indira Point - the southernmost point of land in the territory of India is situated on the island of ----------
Great Nicobar
766. Keradweep is in which state?
Dhumbur in Tripura
767. the lake is the largest freshwater lake in northeast India?
Loktak (Manipur)
768. Which state has the largest forest area in percentage?
Mizoram
769. The Union Territory having the largest area under forest cover is -------------
Andaman Nicobar
770. Kelucharan Mahapathra was an exponent in .....
Kuchipudi
771. Garba, a popular folk dance is associated with which Indian state
Gujarath
772. Bhangra is the folk dance of ------------
Punjab
773. The famous Sun Temple is in which Indian State?
Odisha
774. The most prevalent folk dance of Uttar Pradesh is ------------
Nautanki
775. Tirupati Temple of Lord Venkateswara is situated in the state of ------------
Andhra Pradesh
776. Madhubani, a style of painting, is popular in which Indian state?
Bihar
777. Which Indian state banned the forceful religious conversions?
Tamil Nadu
778. Which is the classical dance form of Assam?
Sathriya
779. What is the name of the outermost solid part of the Earth?
Crust
780. What is the normal thickness of the crust?
8-40 Kms
781. Nearly what per cent of Earth's volume is constituted by the crust?
1 per cent
782. Which are the major constituent elements of the crust?
Silica & Aluminium
783. The discontinuity between the hydrosphere & the crust is known as-------
Conrad discontinuity
784. The portion of the interior beyond the crust is called -----
Mantle
785. What is the name of the discontinuity between the crust & the mantle?
Mohorovich discontinuity
786. What is the average thickness of the mantle?
2,900Kms
787. Nearly 84 per cent of the Earth's volume & 67 per cent of the Earth's mass is occupied by-----
Mantle
788. Which elements are the major constituents of the mantle?
Silicon & Magnesium
789. The uppermost solid part of the mantle & the entire crust constitutes ------
The lithosphere
790. What is the name of the mechanically weak and ductile, deforming region of the upper mantle which lies just below the lithosphere?
The Asthenosphere
791. What is the name of the discontinuity between the upper mantle & the lower mantle?
Repetti discontinuity
792. Which is the innermost layer surrounding the Earth 's centre?
Core
793. The core is separated from the mantle by -------discontinuity
Guttenberg's
794. What are the main constituents of tile Earth's crust?
Iron and Nickel
795. What are the most common types of igneous rocks?
Basalt, granite, andesite, dacite, dolerite, gabbro, diorite, obsidian, scoria & nepheline
796. Which are the most common metamorphic rocks?
Schist, marble, slate, quartzite, gneiss, phyllite, serpent-serpentinite, eclogite & amphibolite
797. The most rocks on the surface of the Earth is composed of which type of rocks?
Sedimentary rocks
798. What are the most common sedimentary rocks?
Chalk, coal, gypsum, clay stone, limestone, dolomite, mudstone, shale, breccia, chert, siltstone
799. The core constitutes nearly----- per cent of Earth's volume?
15%
800. What is the name of the discontinuity between the upper core & lower core?
Lehmann discontinuity
801. ---------- is sometimes used to refer the core of the Earth or sometimes the whole interior
Barysphere
802. Which type of rock is known as 'the Mother of all rocks'?
The igneous rocks
803. Which type of rocks are generally the hardest & heaviest of all rocks?
Igneous rocks
804. Which type of rocks are formed from the cooling of magma & often has large crystals?
igneous rocks
805. Which is the only rock that floats in water?
Pumice
806. Which rock is also known as 'the foam of the Sea'?
Pumice
807. What type of rock is pumice?
Volcanic rock
808. The igneous rocks formed at some depth in the Earth's crust is known as-------
Plutonic rocks
809. Which type of igneous rock is granite?
Plutonic rock
810. Which type of igneous rock is basalt?
Volcanic rock
811. Which type of rocks are also known as stratified rocks?
Sedimentary rocks
812. Which type of rocks often contain fossils of animals, plants & other microorganisms?
Sedimentary rock
813. ---------is an example of the mechanically formed sedimentary rock
Sandstone
814. The peat, lignite & coal are generally known as ...... rocks
Carbonaceous (a type of sedimentary rock)
815. The limestone undergoes metamorphic changes and forms
Marble
816. Which type of mountains are formed along convergent plate boundaries?
Fold mountains
817. The fold mountains are created through a process called .......
Orogeny
9081vertically?
Block mountains
819. At the time of the formation of the block mountains, the uplifted blocks are called .......
Horsts
820. In the formation of block mountains, the lowered blocks are called------
Graben
821. The Rhine Valley & the Vosges mountain in Europe are examples of ......
Block mountains
822. Which type of valleys are formed along the fault lines of block mountains?
Rift valleys
823. What is the name of the mountain formed due to volcanic activity?
Volcanic mountain
824. Mount Kilimanjaro & Mount Fujiyama are examples of----
Volcanic mountains
825. Which type of mountains are formed by denudation?
Residual mountains
826. Which type of mountain is India's Aravalli?
Residual mountain
827. Which are the examples of fold mountains?
The Himalayas, the Andese the Alps
828. Which type of mountains belong to the younger category?
Fold mountains
829. Which type of mountains are composed of sedimentary rocks?
Fold mountains
830. Which type of mountains are called 'the mountains of elevation', since the rock strata have been elevated to great heights?
Fold mountains
831. The Rockies are an example for ----- mountains
Fold mountains
832. The Black Forest & the Hunsruck Mountains are examples of----- mountains
Block mountains
833. What is the name of the elevated uplands with extensive level surfaces?
Plateau
834. The plateaux are sometimes referred to as ------
Tablelands
835. What is the name of the plateau, formed by earth movements?
Tectonic plateau
836. When plateau is enclosed by fold mountains, they are known as-------
Intermont plateau
837. Which type of plateaux is the highest & the most extensive plateau in the world?
Interment plateau
838. The Tibetan Plateau is an example for------ plateau
Intermountain plateau
839. When the molten lava solidifies to form a plateau, it is known as -------
Volcanic plateau
840. The North-western part of the Deccan Plateau is an example for
Volcanic plateau
841. Situated in South America, which is the most remarkable plateau built by lava?
The Columbia-Snake Plateau
842. Which type of plateau is formed by the process of weathering & erosion by running water, ice & winds?
Dissected plateau
843. The Scottish Highlands are example for ------
Dissected plateau
844. An area of lowland, either level or undulating & seldom rises more than a few hundred feet is known as ------
Plain
845. Which type of plains are formed by the horizontally bedded rocks?
Structural Plains
846. The Russian Platform, the Great Plains of the USA are examples of
Structural Plains
847. Which plains are formed by the deposition of materials brought by various agents of transportation?
Depositional Plains
848. The alluvial plains, flood plains & deltaic plains are examples for
Depositional plains
849. The Ganges delta is an example for which type of plain?
Depositional plain
850. The outwash plains are formed by the activity of ---------------
Glaciers
851. Which agents work behind the formation of coastal plains?
Wind and waves
852. The work of which agent results in the formation of loess plateau?
Wind
853. What is the name of the plains carved by the agents of erosion?
Erosional plains
854. Which type of plains are also known in the name of 'Pene plains'?
Erosional plains
IMPORTANT NATIONAL PARKS
855. Kaziranga National Park - Assam
856. Manas National Park - Assam
857. Valmiki National Park - Bihar
858. Indravati National Park - Chattisgarh
859. Hazaribagh National Park - Jharkhand
860. Kanha National Park - Madhya Pradesh
861. Dudhwas National Park - Uttar Pradesh
862. Nanda Devi National Park - Uttarakhand
THE MAJOR VALLEYS OF THE HIMALAYAS
863. Kashmir valley - Jammu & Kashmir
864. Kangara valley - Himachal Pradesh
865. Kullu valley- Himachal Pradesh
866. Manali valley - Himachal Pradesh
HILL STATIONS OF THE HIMALAYAS
867. Pahalgam - Jammu and Kashmir
868. Sonamarg- Jammu and Kashmir
869. Gulmarg- Jammu and Kashmir
870. Dalhousie - Himachal Pradesh
871. Mussorie - Uttarakhand
872. Almora - Uttarakhand
873. Darjeeling - West Bengal
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