NCERT Extra Questions Geography Chapter 2 Physical Features of India Short and Broad Type (Long). Here we have provided Class IX Geography Chapter 2 Very Short Type Questions i.e. 01 Mark; Short Type Questions (02 Mark) and Answers. And Long Type Questions.
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MCQ Extra Question & Answer
1.) The number of major plates forming the landform is —
(a) Five
(b) six
(c) seven
(d) eight.
Ans:- The number of major plates forming the landform is seven.
2.) Lakshadweep islands is formed by —
(a) Slit
(b) coral
(c) flammable substance
(d) none of these.
Ans:- Lakshadweep island is formed by coral.
Very Short Type Extra Questions and Answers:
Which land mass of India is one of the oldest of the world?
Answer. The peninsular plateau
Name two of the most recent landforms of India?
Answer. The Himalayas and the northern plains.
Give an example of unstable zone in India.
Answer. The Himalayan mountains
The northern plains are are formed of_________ deposits
Answer. Alluvial
By which rocks the peninsular plateau is composed of?
Answer.the peninsular plateau is composed of igneous and metamorphic rocks with gently rising hills and wide valleys
Write the name of the only active volcano of India.
Ans:- The name of the only active volcano of India is Barren island volcano of Andaman and Nicobar island.
In how many physical division India can be grouped?
Answer six physical divisions
The Himalayas are ______ mountains
Answer: fold mountains
What is the extension of the Himalaya?
Answer: the Himalayan ranges run in a west east direction from the Indus to the brahmaputra.
How much distance does Himalaya cover?
Answer. 2400 km.
What is the width of Himalaya?
Answer:it varies from 400 kilometres in Kashmir to 150 kilometres in arunachal Pradesh
In which part of the Himalayas the altitudinal variations are greater?
Answer: Eastern side
How many parallel ranges does Himalaya contain?
Answer: three parallel ranges
What is the name of the northernmost range of Himalaya?
The great Himalaya or the himadri
Which is the southernmost range of the Himalayas?
Answer: the shivaliks or the outer Himalaya.
What is the average height of the himadri Himalaya?
Answer: 6000m
What is the name of the oldest fold mountain in India ?
Ans:- The name of the oldest fold mountain of India is Aravalli of Rajasthan.
Which Himalayan range contains all the highest peaks?
Answer: himadri Himalaya
What kind of folds are there in the great Himalaya?
Answer: asymmetrical bends
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What is there in the core of Himalaya?
Answer: granite
Where is Himachal Himalaya located?
Answer: south of the himadri Himalayas
What are the altitude of Himachal Himalaya?
Answer: 3700-4500m
Which is the largest range in the Himalayas?
Answer:pirpanjal range located in the Himachal Himalayas
In which range the Kashmir valley is situate
Answer. The Kashmir valley is situated in the pirpanjal range
In which state of India kullu and kangra valley are located?
Answer. Himachal Pradesh
Which is the outermost range of the Himalaya?
Answer: shivalik Himalaya
What is the altitude of shivalik Himalaya?
Answer. 900- 1100m
Shivalik rangers are composed of _______________ brought down by rivers from the main Himalayan ranges located further north.
Answer: unconsolidated sediments
These values are covered with thick _______ and _______.
Answer. Gravel and alluvium
The Himalayas have been divided from west to east and this demarcation is based on _______
Answer: river valleys
Which rivers demarcate the the Nepal Himalayas?
Answer. Kali and teesta rivers
Which river marks the easternmost boundary of the Himalayas?
Answer. The brahmaputra
Beyond which gorge Himalayas bend sharply to the south?
Answer. Dihang gorge
The purvanchal hills or Eastern Himalayas are composed of_________
Answer. Strong sandstone which are sedimentary rocks
The northern plain is made of_____ soil.
Answer. Alluvial
The northern plain spreads over an area of_______
Answer 7 lakh square kilometre
What is the broadness of the northern plain?
Answer: 240 to 320 kilometres
Which is the largest riverine island in the world?
Answer majuli in the brahmaputra river
In how many parts the northern plain is divided?
Answer. Three parts-the Punjab plains ganga plain and the thethethebrahmaputra plain
Which rivers have formed the Punjab plains?
Answer. Indus and its tributaries
The ganga plain extends between______ and ______rivers.
Answer: ghaggar and teesta river
Assam lies in the _______ plain
Answer. Brahmaputra plain
Royal of which region contains calcareous deposits?
Answer. Bhangar region
What is the local name of this kind of soil?
Answe. kankar
How many divisions are there in the peninsula plateau?
Answer. Two divisions. The central highland and the Deccan plateau
The vindhya range is is in the______ of the thesatpura range
Answer:north
In which part the central highland are wider?
Answer: western part
What is the local name of the eastward extension of the central highland?
Answer.Bundelkhand and baghelkhand.
Which river drains the chotanagpur plateau?
Ansrdamodar River
What is the shape of the Deccan plateau?
Answer. Triangular
Which is the highest peak of Western ghats?
Answer:anamudi
Which is the highest peak of eastern ghat?
Answer: Mahendragiri
Where, The coastal plain is wide and level?
Answer: along the Bay of Bengal
Which is the largest saltwater lake in India?
Answer chilika
Where is chilika located?
Answer: south of mahanadi delta
Lakshadweep island group is close to which coast?
Answer: Malabar coast of Kerala
In which year the name lakshadweep was given?
Answer: 1973
Which is the administrative head quarter of lakshadweep?
Answer. Kavaratti
which island group in India has great diversity of flora and fauna?
Answer: lakshadweep
Which island of India has a bird sanctuary!?
Answer; the pitti island
India’s only active volcano is found on_______island
Answer: barren
Short Type Extra Questions and Answers:
Q1. What are the major physiographic divisions of India?
Answer: the Himalayan mountains, the northern plains, the peninsular plateau, the Indian desert, The coastal plains, the islands
Q2. Which is the northern and southern most part of the Himalayas?
Answer:the northernmost part of the Himalayas is called the himadri Himalaya and the southernmost part of the Himalaya is called outer Himalayas or shivalik Himalaya.
Q3. Name some of the ranges in the himadri Himalaya?
Answer: pirpanjal range, dhauladhar range, mahabharat range
Q4. What are duns? Name some of the famous duns.
Answer:the longitudinal valley lying between lesser Himalaya and the shivaliks are known as duns. Some famous duns are dehradun, kotli dun, and patli dun.
Q5. Which part of Himalaya is called the Punjab Himalaya?
Answer:the part of Himalayas lies between index and shoot Lage has been traditionally known as the Punjab Himalayas
Q6. Which part of Himalayas is known as kumaon Himalaya?
Answer:the part of the Himalayas lying between satluj and Kali river is also known as kumaon Himalayas.
Q7. What are the purvanchal hills?
Answer: the brahmaputra marks easternmost boundary of the Himalayas. Beyond Dihang gorge the Himalayas bend sharply to the south and spread along the Eastern boundary of India. They are known as purvanchal or the Eastern hills and mountains.
Q8. Name some of the important hills of purvanchal Himalaya?
Answer. Patkai hills, Naga hills, Manipur hills and the mizo hills
Q9. How did the northern plain form?
The northern play in was formed by the interplay of three major river systems namelythe northern plain was formed by the interplay of three major river systems namely the Indus the ganga and the brahmaputra along with their tributaries.
Q10. Why the northern plain is the most agriculturally productive part of India?
Answer.the northern plains are the most agriculturally productive part of India because it is made of the aluminium of the rivers Indus ganga and the brahmaputra.the adequate water supply and favourable climate made this region agriculturally productive
Q11. How do the riverine islands form in the northern plains?
Answer.the rivers coming from the northern mountains are involved in depositional work. In the lower course due to gentle slope, the velocity of the river decreases,which results in the formation of riverine islands.
Q12. What are distributaries?
Answer.the rivers in their lower course split into numerous channels due to the deposition of sleek. These channels are known as distributaries.
Q13. Name the tributaries of river Indus.
Answer.Sutlrj beas Ravi chenab and jhelum
Q14. What is a doab?
Answer:Doab is made up of two words do meaning to and ab meaning water.
Q15. In which states the ganga plains are spread over?
Answer: the ganga plains are spread over the states of haryana Delhi uttar Pradesh Bihar jharkhand and West Bengal
Q16. The peninsular plateau is made of which rocks?
Answer: old crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks
Q17. Why did the peninsular plateau form?
Answer:the peninsular plateau was formed due to the braking and drifting of the gondwanaland and thus making it a part of the oldest landmass
Q18. What is the central Highlands?
Ans: the part of the peninsular plateau lying to the north of the narmada river covering a major area of the malwa plateau is known as Central highland.
Q19. Name some of the rivers which flow through the central highland?
Ans: chambalsindbetwa Ken
Q20. What is the the eastward extension of the peninsular plateau?
Answer:an extension of the peninsular plateau is also visible in the North East, locally known as the meghalaya plateau or karbianglong plateau.
Q21. Which are the prominent Hill ranges from west to east in the the North Eastern plateau?
Answer:garokhasi and jaintia.
Q22. Name three ghats in the Western ghats?
Answer:thalghat, bhorghat, palghat
Q23. What is the extension of the Eastern ghats?
Answer:the Eastern ghats stretches from the mahanadi valley to the nilgiris in the south.
Q24. Name two hills which are located south east of the Eastern ghat?
Answer:shevaroy hills and javadi hills.
Q25. Name the three sections of the the western part of Indian coastal plains?
Answer: konkan coast. Kannad plain. Malabar coast.
Long Type Extra Questions Worksheet
1) What are the major physiographic divisions of India. Write two characteristics of each
2) Elaborately describe the longitudinal and latitudinal divisions of the Himalayas
3) Why the northern plains are suitable for agriculture?
4) What is terai? What is Khadar? What is bhangar? In which regions of India these are located?
5) Describe about the northern plains of India
6) What are the differences between the eastern and Western ghats of India
7) Write some of the characteristic features of the Indian desert
8) Write some characteristic features of the coastal plains of India
9) How many islands are there in India? Give some of the characteristic features of them
10) What are coral reefs? Give some of the characteristic features
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