Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 73

The Rangeet is a Sikkim river that joins the Teesta, but the Teesta neither shares the Brahmaputra's source nor reaches the sea by itself.

Ahmedabad was founded by Ahmad Shah in 1411 on the left bank of the Sabarmati, and the river gives its name to the Sabarmati Ashram from which Gandhi began the Dandi march in 1930.

Libya lies in North Africa, west of Egypt, and is separated from the Arabian Peninsula by Egypt and the Red Sea.

Nanda Devi belongs to the Kumaon Himalaya, but Namcha Barwa and Nokrek are wrongly placed. Nanda Devi (7,816 m) is the highest peak lying wholly within India and the highest in Uttarakhand.

The Panama Canal was opened in 1914 across the narrow isthmus of Panama, it is about eighty kilometres long and uses a system of locks and the artificial Gatun Lake, and it saves a ship sailing between New York and San Francisco the long voyage around Cape Horn at the…

The Teesta flows from Sikkim through West Bengal into Bangladesh and joins the Brahmaputra, so it has nothing to do with the Indus system.

Hyderabad was founded in 1591 on the Musi, a tributary of the Krishna, and the Osman Sagar and Himayat Sagar reservoirs built on the Musi still help supply the city.

Of the four, the Sabarmati is both the shortest river and the one with the smallest basin. The Sabarmati rises in the Aravalli hills of Rajasthan and flows about 370 km south-west through Gujarat, past Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, into the Gulf of Khambhat.

The eye is ten to fifty kilometres across, the air inside it sinks rather than rises, the wind is light and the sky can even be clear, while the atmospheric pressure there is the lowest in the whole system.

In this last stage both the birth rate and the death rate are low, so the population grows very slowly or stays almost steady.

The figure usually quoted is 7,516.6 kilometres, which counts the coast of the mainland together with that of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this class of India's land-use records.

The Pennar river cut the Gandikota gorge through the Erramala hills in the Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh. Gandikota is often called the Grand Canyon of India.

Lake Turkana is the world's largest desert lake and a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Jade Sea, but it lies in Kenya, not South Sudan.

The Deccan Traps, the vast lava plateau of the north-western peninsula, were laid down by eruptions at the close of the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago.

The warning comes in four stages, each tied to a number of hours before the adverse weather is expected on the coast.

Natural change counts only births and deaths, so it is the birth rate minus the death rate. Both rates are usually given per thousand people per year.

Of the Central Asian countries listed, only Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan touch Afghanistan, all along its northern edge.

The Great Artesian Basin lies below the dry interior of eastern Australia, mainly under Queensland and parts of New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory, and it is the largest artesian basin in the world; water enters the porous rock where it is exposed near the Great Dividing…

The Tata Iron and Steel Company plant of 1907 was built at Sakchi, later renamed Jamshedpur, where the Subarnarekha and its tributary the Kharkai meet, close to the coal of Jharia and the iron ore of Odisha.