Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 87

The falls lie on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, where the Zambezi drops into a basalt gorge; the local name Mosi-oa-Tunya means the smoke that thunders, and the missionary explorer David Livingstone named them after Queen Victoria in 1855.

Bandarpunch feeds the Yamuna, Bara Shigri the Chenab and Siachen the Nubra; pairs 3 and 5 are wrong. The Yamunotri glacier, the source of the Yamuna, lies on the western slopes of the Bandarpunch massif in Uttarakhand.

Majuli lies in the Brahmaputra in Assam, formed by silt deposited by the river and its tributaries, is a seat of the Vaishnava satras founded in the tradition of Srimanta Sankardeva, and has been constituted a district of Assam, the first river island district in the country.

The Caspian has no natural outlet to any ocean, so it is a landlocked water body, in fact the largest inland body of water on Earth.

The Niagara river carries the water of Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, and on the way it crosses the Niagara escarpment, a band of hard dolomite, which produces the Horseshoe, American and Bridal Veil falls on the border of Canada and the United States.

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.

Barren Island in the Andaman group of the Bay of Bengal carries the only active volcano in India and indeed in South Asia, part of the volcanic arc produced where the Indian plate dips beneath the Burma plate, and it has erupted several times in recent decades.

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.

Of the five lakes remembered by the word HOMES, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior, only Michigan lies wholly in the United States; the international boundary with Canada runs through the other four.

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 Ten Degree Channel runs along the tenth parallel of north latitude across the Bay of Bengal and separates the Andaman group in the north from the Nicobar group in the south, which is why the Union Territory is named for both groups.

In India's land-use classification, land left uncultivated for more than five years is recorded as culturable waste land. India's land records divide area into nine categories.

Lake Titicaca lies on the Altiplano of the Andes at about 3,810 metres above sea level and carries regular boat traffic, which is why it is called the highest navigable lake in the world.

Rourkela, built in the Second Five Year Plan, was set up with West German collaboration, close to the iron ore of Odisha and the coal of the Chhotanagpur plateau.

The Mozambique Channel is the arm of the Indian Ocean that lies between Madagascar and the coast of Mozambique on the African mainland, and Madagascar itself is a continental island that broke away from Africa and later from India, which is why its wildlife is so distinctive.

The India Meteorological Department attaches a colour to the severity of the expected weather so that an administration can act without reading the whole bulletin.

The White Nile leaves Lake Victoria at Jinja in Uganda and flows north through Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert to meet the Blue Nile at Khartoum, where the Nile proper begins.

Borneo, the third largest island in the world, is divided between the Indonesian provinces of Kalimantan in the south, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak in the north, and the small sultanate of Brunei on the northern coast, and it is the only large island shared by three countries.

It lies in the Jordan rift valley between Israel and Jordan, more than four hundred metres below sea level, and its extreme salinity, caused by heavy evaporation with no outlet, lets a swimmer float easily.

Honshu is the largest and most populous of the four main islands of the Japanese archipelago and carries Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Mount Fuji, so the political and industrial heart of Japan lies on it.