Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 98

The two head streams of the Chenab, the Chandra and the Bhaga, rise on either side of the Baralacha La in the Lahaul area of Himachal Pradesh and meet at Tandi, below which the united stream is called the Chandrabhaga or Chenab and flows on into Jammu and Kashmir.

Albania lies on the Adriatic, Kazakhstan on the Caspian and Morocco on the Mediterranean. The Adriatic Sea separates Italy from the Balkan coast of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Albania.

The Deccan Trap was built by fissure eruptions of highly fluid basalt lava towards the close of the Cretaceous period, which spread as sheet after sheet over a vast area of western and central India; the weathering of that basalt gives the black cotton soil, also called regur.

The Inland Vessels Act, 2021 replaced the Inland Steam Vessels Act of 1917, a colonial law under which every state registered vessels separately.

The Sutlej rises in the Rakshastal area of Tibet, near Lake Mansarovar, and enters India through the Shipki La pass in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, after which it flows past the Bhakra dam into the plains of Punjab.

Tube wells irrigate the largest share of the net irrigated area of Rajasthan, and groundwater drawn through tube wells and wells together waters the greater part of the state's fields.

The Bhabar is a narrow belt of eight to sixteen kilometres along the foot of the Shiwaliks, laid with pebbles and gravel brought down by the rivers; it is so permeable that the smaller streams sink into it and vanish.

SAGAR stands for Security and Growth for All in the Region, India's vision for working with its ocean neighbours. Prime Minister Narendra Modi set out SAGAR in Mauritius in March 2015.

The Jhelum rises from the spring at Verinag at the foot of the Pir Panjal in the south-east of the Kashmir valley, flows north-west past Srinagar, passes through the Wular Lake, the largest freshwater lake of the valley, and then enters Pakistan.

Milpa is the name for shifting cultivation in Mexico and Central America, and Ladang is its name in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Khadar is the low-lying newer alluvium that the rivers flood and renew nearly every year, so it is free of lime nodules, rich in fine silt and the most productive land of the plain; in Punjab the Khadar strip along a river is called Bet.

It joins north-eastern North America with Western Europe, two of the most industrialised regions on Earth, and carries the heaviest traffic of any ocean route.

The Beas, which rises at Beas Kund near the Rohtang Pass, joins the Sutlej at Harike in the Tarn Taran district of Punjab, where a barrage has been built; the Indira Gandhi Canal, which carries water into the desert of Rajasthan, takes off from this barrage, and the wetland there…

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.

A peneplain, meaning almost a plain, is the end stage of the normal cycle of river erosion in a humid region, when valleys have widened and divides have been worn down until the land lies close to base level, with a few resistant residual hills standing above it.

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 treaty signed on 12 December 1996 for a period of thirty years fixes the sharing of the dry-season flow of the Ganga at the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal between the first of January and the thirty-first of May, in periods of ten days, and provides for a joint…

A piedmont plateau lies at the foot of a mountain range with a plain or the sea on its other side, and it is usually lower than an intermontane plateau; Patagonia lies between the Andes and the Atlantic, and the Piedmont plateau of the United States between the Appalachians and…

The Jhelum rises from the spring at Verinag inside the Kashmir valley, so its source lies within India, unlike the other rivers offered.

Residual or relict mountains are what is left when a plateau or an old mountain mass is worn down for a very long time and only the hardest rock stands out; the Nilgiri in the Western Ghats, Parasnath in Jharkhand, Girnar in Gujarat and the Rajmahal hills are the Indian…