Indian Geography MCQs

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Petroleum Industry, located in Assam and known for the first Oil Refinery to be commissioned by the then Indian Oil Company Limited, now known as Indian Oil Corporation Limited.

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Shillong, the capital of the Indian state of Meghalaya, is often referred to as the “Scotland of the East”. The nickname comes from the city’s picturesque landscape, which includes rolling hills, lush greenery, waterfalls, and a generally cool and pleasant climate. It is said that the rolling hills around the town shillong, reminded the place for European settlers of Scotland.

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Ghaggar River is the main seasonal river of Haryana. It is a seasonal river that only flows during the monsoon season. The Ghaggar River originates in the Shivalik Hills of Himachal Pradesh and flows through Punjab and Haryana states into Rajasthan. The river enters Haryana near Pinjore, district Panchkula. The Ghaggar River flows in the outer Himalayas, between the Yamuna and the Sutlej. It flows for more than 100 km making the border between Punjab and Haryana.
The Ghaggar River is also known as the “Dead River”. It is dammed at Ottu barrage near Sirsa and feeds two irrigation canals that extend into Rajasthan.

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The correct answer is Tamil Nadu. Unlike other states in India, Tamil Nadu receives the majority of its rainfall during the Northeast Monsoon (October to December) rather than the Southwest Monsoon (June to September). This is due to its geographical location and the influence of the Indian Ocean. Tamil Nadu’s unique climate pattern results in a important portion of its annual rainfall occurring later in the year compared to other states.

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Mullaperiyar Dam is a masonry gravity dam. It is located on the Periyar River in the Indian state of Kerala. It has been a long pending issue between Tamilnadu and Kerala.

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Tropical Deciduous Forests or Monsoon forests are most common forests. Important trees include Sandal wood, Shisam, Mahua, Sal, Teak and Bamboo. Moist deciduous and the dry deciduous forests are two major categories of these forests.

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Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain in the world at 8,126 metres above sea level. It is the western anchor of the Himalayas around which the Indus River skirts into the plains of Pakistan. Namcha Barwa is in an isolated part of south-eastern Tibet rarely visited by outsiders. Namcha rises 5,000 to 6,800 metres above the Yarlung Tsangpo.

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Geosyncline means a huge depression. Ganga Plain can be best described as a geosyncline. Peneplain means a more or less level land surface produced by erosion over a long period. Pediplain is an extensive plain formed in a desert by the coalescence of neighbouring pediments. Karst plain can be best described as limestone plain.

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Pattiseema is a village in Polavaram mandal of West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The Pattiseema Lift Irrigation Scheme (PLIS) is a temporary substitute to the proposed Polavaram project across the Godavari.

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The Chhota Nagpur Plateau, which lies in eastern India covers much of Jharkhand state and some adjacent parts of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Chhattisgarh. This region is a store house of mineral resources such as mica, bauxite, copper, limestone, iron ore & coal. The Damodar valley is rich in coal & it is also known as the prime core of coking coal in India.