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  • Question 1
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    River Kaveri flows through the state of _______.
    Solution
    Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
    Originating in the foothills of Western Ghats at Talakaveri, Kodagu in Karnataka it flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the southeastern lowlands, emptying into the Bay of Bengal through two principal mouths in Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu.
  • Question 2
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     Why the Delta of  River Indus is small compared to the Delta of the Ganga?
    Solution
    Ganges River, Hindi Ganga, great river of the plains of the northern Indian subcontinent. Although officially as well as popularly called the Ganga in Hindi and in other Indian languages, internationally it is known by its conventional name, the Ganges. From time immemorial it has been the holy river of Hinduism. For most of its course it is a wide and sluggish stream, flowing through one of the most fertile and densely populated regions in the world. Despite its importance, its length of 1,560 miles (2,510 km) is relatively short compared with the other great rivers of Asia or of the world.
    Rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the Bay of Bengal, it drains one-fourth of the territory of India, and its basin supports hundreds of millions of people. The greater part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, across which it flows, is the heartland of the region known as Hindustan and has been the cradle of successive civilizations from the Mauryan empire of Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE to the Mughal Empire, founded in the 16th century.
  • Question 3
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    Which of the following is not a characteristic of Peninsular rivers?
    Solution
    Meandering tendency often shifting their beds is not a characteristic of Peninsular rivers. They flow through open and graded shallow valleys with low gradients and little erosion. They have meandering tendencies, often shifting their beds. Most of these rivers can be said to have reached a mature state of development.
  • Question 4
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    Which of the following river divides the 'Deccan Tableland' from Central Highland in northern India?
    Solution
    Narmada rivers divides the 'Deccan Tableland' from Central Highland in northern India. Narmada river and Vindhyan range divides the Deccan Plateau into two parts. Upper part is known as central highlands and lower part is known as Deccan plateau.
  • Question 5
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    The right Ganga tributaries of the plain do not include ____.
    Solution
    Ganga River:

    Ganga River Starts In the Himalayan mountains in india. Ganga Forms where Bhagirathi and alakananda rivers meet .
    It travels nearly 2525 km from Himalayas to bay of Bengal.
    Ganga tributaries are divided into two types.

    Left bank tributaries:
    Gomati,
    Kosi,
    Gandak,
    Gogra

    Right Bank Tributaries:
    Yamuna
    Dhamodar
    Punpun
    Son
  • Question 6
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    Which of the following rivers makes an estuary?
    Solution
    The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries. An Estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Only West following rivers of India forms Estuary.
  • Question 7
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    Sivasamudram waterfalls is on the river ______.
    Solution
    Cauvery,
    Shivasamudram falls is located in Mandya district. It is located at a distance of 27 km from Somanathapura and 80 km from Mysore.
    Shivanasamudra Falls is the second biggest waterfall in India and the sixteenth largest in the world. Shivanasamudra Falls was formerly known as the Kaveri Falls. River Kaveri divides into two branches and each branch cascades down rocky cliffs as the Gaganachukki and the Bharachukki, both are one km away from each other. These spectacular waterfalls are surrounded by hill forests of the Kaveri Wildlife Sanctuary.
  • Question 8
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    _______ is not situated on the banks of the Ganga.
  • Question 9
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    Chandra and Bhaga the two streams join to form ________ river.
    Solution
    Chandra and Bhaga the two streams join to form Chenab river. Two streams namely Chandra and Bhaga rise on the opposite sides of the Baralacha pass at an elevation of 4,891 metres and meet at Tandi at an elevation of 2,286 metres to form the river Chenab. The Chenab rises from the South-East and Bhaga from the North-West of the Baralacha pass.
  • Question 10
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    The source of River Brahmaputra is _____.
    Solution
    A glacier near the Mansarovar lake,
    Brahmaputra river its origin in the Angsi glacier, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh (India).
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