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Vary Short Type Questions and Answers:
Q1. What does the term drainage mean?
Answer: the term drainage means the River system of an area
Q2. What is a drainage basin?
Answer:the area drained by a single River system is called a drainage basin
Q3. What is water divide?
Answer: any elevated area such as mountain or an upland, which separates two drainage basins is known as water divide.
Q4. Which is the world’s largest drainage basin?
Answer: Amazon River basin
Q5. Which river has the largest basin in India?
Answer: the ganga river basin
Q6. In how many groups the Indian rivers are divided?
Answer: the Himalayan rivers and the peninsular rivers
Q7. What is a perennial river?
Ans: a river which has water throughout the year is called perennial river.
Q8. What do you mean by a seasonal river?
Answer: a seasonal river contains water only in a particular season of The year.
Q9. Why do the peninsular rivers have shorter and shallow courses?
Answer: because they flow through rift valleys and hard rocks
Q10. What is a River system?
Answer: a river along with its tributaries is called a River system
Q11. From where do the river Indus originate?
Answer: the river Indus originates in Tibet near the mansarovar lake
Q12. From where does the river Indus enter India?
Answer: through ladakh
Q13. In which sea does river Indus flow into?
Answer: the river Indus flows into the Arabian Sea, east of Karachi
Q14. What is the length of the river Indus?
Answer: 2900 km
Q15. From where the ganga originates?
Answer: the ganga originates from the gangotri glacier
Q16. Where does the bhagirathi meet alaknanda?
Answer:devprayaguttarakhand
Q17. At which place the ganga emerges from the mountains on the plains?
Answer: at haridwar
Q18. Where from the river yamuna originates?
Answer:the river yamuna originate from the yamunotri glacier in the Himalayas
Q19. Where does the yamuna meet the ganga?
Answer: at allahabad
Q20. What is the northernmost point of ganga delta?
Answer:farakka
Q21. Where does the river ganga byfurcate?
Answer: at farakka in West Bengal
Q22. Name a distributary of ganga?
Answer:bhagirathihooghly
Q23. With which river the main stream of the ganga join?
And: the mainstream of the ganga join the brahmaputra in Bangladesh
Q24. What is the secret behind the name of sundarban?
Answer: the name sundarban has been derived from the the tree called sundari which grows well in marshland
Q25. Which is the world’s largest and fastest growing delta?
Answer: the sundarbans
Q26. What is the length of the ganga?
Answer: the length of the ganga is over 2500 km
Q27. ______ is located on the water divide between the Indus and ganga River system.
Answer: ambala
Q28. From where does the river brahmaputra originate?
Answer: the river brahmaputra originates in Tibet east of mansarovar lake.
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Q29. Where does the brahmaputra take an u turn?
Answer: near the namchabarwa
Q30. By which name brahmaputra enters India?
Answer: Dihang
Q31. What is the name of brahmaputra in Tibet?
Answer: tsangpo
Q32. What is the name of the brahmaputra in Bangladesh?
Ans: Jamuna
Q33. Which river causes heavy flood in the rainy season every year in Bangladesh and Assam?
Ans: river brahmaputra
Q34. Which is the main water divide in peninsular India?
Answer: the Western ghats
Q35. Name two rivers of peninsular India which flows into the Arabian Sea?
Answer: narmada and tapi
Q36. The drainage basins of the ___________ are smaller in size
And: peninsular India
Q37. From where the river narmada rise?
Answer: the river narmada rises from the amarkantak hills in madhya Pradesh.
Q38. Tributaries of which river joins the main stream at right angles?
Answer:narmada river
Q39. From where the river tapi rises?
Answer: the river tapi rises in the satpura ranges in madhya Pradesh
Q40. The river flows through which state?
Answer: Kerala
Q41. Which is the largest peninsular river?
Answer: godavari
Q42. From where the river godavari rises?
Answer:the river godavari rises from the slopes of Western ghat in the nashik district of Maharashtra
Q43. What is the length of the godavari?
Answer: 1500 km
Q44. Where does the river godavari drain into?
Answer: the river godavari drains into the Bay of Bengal
Q45. Which river is known as dakshin ganga?
Answer: river godavari
Q46. From where the river mahanadi rises?
Answer: the river mahanadi rises in the Highlands of chhattisgarh.
Q47. Through which the river mahanadi flows?
Answer: odisha
Q48. From where does the river Krishna originate?
Answer: the river Krishna originates near mahabaleshwar
Q49. From where the river kaveri rises?
Answer: the river cauvery rises in the brahmagiri range of Western ghats
Q50. What is the length of river kaveri?
Answer:760km
Q51. Which is the second biggest waterfall in India?
Answer:shivasamudram
Q52. How much percent of the world’s surface is covered with water?
Answer:71%
Q53. How much percent of world’s water is saltwater?
Answer: 97%
Q54. Where is Dal lake situated?
Answer: Kashmir
Q55. What are shikaras?
Answer: the house boats that float in dal lake are called shikaras
Q56. Name three large lakes which are called seas.
Answer: Caspian Sea, date sea and the aral seas
Q57. Chilika is a kind of ______
Answer: lagoon
Q58. Where is sambhar lake situated?
Answer: sambhar lake is situated in Rajasthan, it is a saltwater lake
Q59. Which lake of Rajasthan is used for producing salt?
Answer: sambhar lake
Q60. Most of the freshwater lakes are in the_______ region
Answer: Himalayan region
Q61. The freshwater lakes of the Himalayan region are of______ origin
Answer: glacial
Q62. Where is wular lake situated?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
Q63. Which is the largest freshwater lake in India?
Answer: wular lake
Q64. Give an example of of artificial lake.
Answer: guru govindSagar lake.
Short Answer Type Questions and Answers (02 Marks)
Question 1: What are perennial rivers? Give two examples
Answer: the rivers that have water throughout the year are called perennial rivers.most of the rivers of the Himalayan region are perennial rivers. For example chenab and jhelum.
Question 2: What are the main river systems of India?
Answer: the main river system of India are the ganga the brahmaputra and the Indus River system
Question 3: Name some of the tributaries of Indus.
Answer: nubra, shyok,zaskar and hunza
Question 4: What are the names of the five tributaries of the Indus? Where do they meet together?
Answer: the tributaries of Indus sutlej Beas Ravi chenabjhelum
They meet together in mithankot
Question 5: In which states of India the basin of the Indus is located?
Answer: the Indus basin is located in ladakh Jammu and Kashmir Himachal Pradesh and Punjab
Question 6: What was Indus water treaty?
Answer:according to the regulations of the Indus water treaty India can use only 20% of the total water carried by the Indus River system. This water is used for irrigation in Punjab haryana and southern and western parts of Rajasthan
Question 7: Name some of the tributaries of ganga
Answer: yamunaKosighaghra and gandak
Question 8: Where do ghaghara and Kosi originate?
Ans: in the Nepal Himalaya
Question 9: What is the namamigangeprogramme?
Answer: it is an integrated conservation mission approved as a flagship programme by the union government in June 2014 to accomplish the twin objectives of effective abatement of pollution,conservation and rejuvenation of the national river ganga
Question 10: Why does the river ganga develop large meanders?
Answer: the planes from ambala to the sundarban stretch over nearly 1800 kilometre but the Fall in its low is hardly 300 m.in other words there is a fall of just one metre for every 6 kilometre. Therefore the river develops large meanders.
Question 11: Name the tributaries of the brahmaputra in Assam.
Answer: dibang and lohit
Question 12: Which peninsular rivers drain into the Bay of Bengal?
Answer: mahanadigodavari Krishna kaveri
Question 13: What was the narmada river conservation mission?
Answer. narmada river conservation mission has been undertaken by the government of madhya Pradesh by a scheme named namami Devi narmade.
Question 14: Which States do the narmada basin cover?
Answer: madhya Pradesh and Gujarat
Question 15: Which states do the tapi basin cover?
Answer. Madhya Pradesh Gujarat and Maharashtra
Question 16: Which are the main West flowing rivers of India?
Answer. Sabarmati mahinarmadatapi and periyar
Question 17: Which states do the godavari basin cover?
And: madhya Pradesh odisha Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra
Question 18: Name the tributaries of the godavari?
Answer: purnapranhitamanjrapenganga
Question 19: Name the tributaries of river Krishna?
Answer: tungabhadra, Koyna,ghataprabha,music and bhima
Question 20: Name some of the important freshwater lakes of India
Answer: Dal lake, bhimtal, nainital, loktakand barapani.
Long Type Questions Worksheet:
5 Marks Questions
1) Differentiate between the Himalayan rivers and the peninsular rivers
2) Describe the Indus River system
3) Describe the ganga River system
4) Describe the brahmaputra River system
5) Name some of the important peninsular rivers. With their origin and destination
6) Write a paragraph on the lakes of India
7) What are the importance of lakes
8) Write the role of rivers in the economy
9) What is national river conservation plan
10) Write some reasons of river pollution.
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