Indian Geography MCQs

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The northernmost of India is India Col. The southernmost point of India is Indira point or Pygmalion point. It is about 6deg 45min N Latitude.

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Guru Shikhar, a peak in the Arbuda Mountains of Rajasthan, is the highest point of the Aravalli Range. It rises to an altitude of 1722 meters. The peak is named Guru Shikhar or “peak of the guru” after Dattatreya, an incarnation of Vishnu.

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Rainwater harvesting has been made compulsory for every building in Tamil Nadu to avoid ground water depletion. Since its implementation, Chennai saw a 50 percent rise in water level in five years and the water quality significantly improved. Rainwater harvesting is the accumulation and deposition of rainwater for reuse on-site, rather than allowing it to run off.

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Silent Valley National Park, is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad District in Kerala. The park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats montane rain forests and tropical moist evergreen forest in India. Plans for a hydroelectric project that threatened the parks high diversity of wildlife stimulated an environmentalist Social Movement in the 1970s called Save Silent Valley which resulted in cancellation of the project and creation of the park in 1980.

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Located in northeast India, Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the north. Itanagar is the capital of the state. Arunachal Pradesh means “land of the dawn-lit mountains”. It is also known as “land of the rising sun” (“Pradesh” means “state”, “territory” or “region”) in reference to its position as the easternmost state of India. Like other parts of Northeast India, a majority of the people native to the state are of Tibeto-Burman origin.

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The Narmada River rises from the Amarkantak Plateau in Anuppur district Madhya Pradesh. It forms the traditional boundary between North India and South India and flows westwards over a length of 1,312 km (815.2 mi) before draining through the Gulf of Khambhat into the Arabian Sea, 30 km (18.6 mi) west of Bharuch city of Gujarat.

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Shifting cultivation is a form of agriculture in which the cultivated or cropped area is shifted regularly to allow soil properties to recover under conditions of natural successive stages of re-growth. In a shifting cultivation system, at any particular point in time a minority of ‘fields’ is in cultivation and a majority are in various stages of natural re-growth. Over time, fields are cultivated for a relatively short time, and allowed to recover, or are fallowed, for a relatively long time. Eventually a previously cultivated field will be cleared of the natural vegetation and planted in crops again. Fields in established and stable shifting cultivation systems are cultivated and fallowed cyclically. This type of farming is called jhumming in India. It has been practised in the forested regions of the Central highlands of India which comprise of three main plateaus — the Malwa Plateau in the west, the Deccan Plateau in the south (covering most of the Indian peninsula) and the Chhota Nagpur Plateau in the east.

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The triangular shaped Peninsular Plateau of India extends from the south of Indo-Ganga Plain to the Kanyakumari. This plateau is one of the oldest surfaces of the Earth and represents a segregated part of the old Gondwanaland. The Penins-ular Plateau can be broadly categorized into the Central Highlands and the Deccan Plateau. To the south of the Satpura Mountain Range, the Indian peninsula is known as the Deccan Plateau.

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The Bhabhar areas are covered with the deposits of coarse sands and pebbles brought down from the hills by the swift-flowing rivers. It is a narrow belt of about 8 to 16 km in width lying parallel to the slopes of the Shiwaliks. It is comparatively narrow in the east and extensive in the western and northwestern hilly region. The area is not suitable for agriculture and only big trees with large roots thrive in this belt.

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Around eight percent of India’s waterways are found in Kerala. Kerala’s 44 rivers include the Periyar; Bharatha- puzha; Pamba; Chaliyar; Kadalundipuzha; Chala-kudipuzha; Valapattanam; and the Achankovil River;. The average length of the rivers is 64 kilometres. Some of the important beaches in Kerala include Kovalam, Varkala, Chowara, Chavakkad, Nattika, Cherai, Kizhunna, Poovar etc.