NCERT Class 9 Geography Chapter 3 Drainage Extra Questions and Answers

NCERT Extra Questions Geography Chapter 3 Drainage Short and Broad Type (Long). Here we have provided Class IX Geography Chapter 3 Very Short Type Questions i.e. 01 Mark; Short Type Questions (02 Mark) and Answers. And Long Type Questions.

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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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  1. it was good but some quetions are misssin from the w.b so plzzz keep all quetions

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