In the Punjab plains, the strip of land lying between two rivers is called:
- A.Dun
- B.Bhabar
- C.Doab
- D.Karewa
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Doab. Doab, from the Persian words for two and water, is the name for the tract of land between two rivers. The Punjab plains, built by the Indus and its tributaries, are divided into such tracts, among them the Bari doab between the Beas and the Ravi, the Bist doab between the Beas and the Satluj, the Rachna doab between the Ravi and the Chenab and the Chaj doab between the Chenab and the Jhelum. Option A is wrong because a Dun is a longitudinal valley between the Shiwaliks and the Lesser Himalaya. Option B is wrong because Bhabar is the pebble belt at the foot of the Shiwaliks. Option D is wrong because Karewas are the lake deposits of the Kashmir valley on which saffron is grown.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich of the following is the northernmost and highest of the three parallel ranges of the Himalayas?
- A.Shiwalik
- B.Himachal or Lesser Himalaya
- C.Himadri or Greater Himalaya
- D.Purvanchal
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The Himadri is the innermost and northernmost of the three parallel Himalayan ranges, with an average height of about 6,000 metres.
Read the full explanation →The longitudinal valleys known as Duns lie between which two ranges?
- A.Greater Himalaya and Lesser Himalaya
- B.Shiwalik and Lesser Himalaya
- C.Karakoram and Ladakh range
- D.Zaskar and Greater Himalaya
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Duns are flat-floored longitudinal valleys formed where rivers coming out of the Lesser Himalaya were held up behind the rising Shiwalik and filled the depression with gravel and silt.
Read the full explanation →The Karewa deposits of the Kashmir valley are best known for the cultivation of which crop?
- A.Saffron
- B.Tea
- C.Rubber
- D.Jute
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Karewas are thick beds of glacial clay, silt and other lake sediments laid down in the Kashmir valley, which lies between the Pir Panjal and the Greater Himalaya.
Read the full explanation →Which belt of the Northern Plains is a narrow strip of pebbles at the foot of the Shiwaliks, in which streams disappear from the surface?
- A.Terai
- B.Bhabar
- C.Bhangar
- D.Khadar
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The Bhabar is a narrow belt about 8 to 16 kilometres wide, laid along the foot of the Shiwalik range, where the rivers leaving the hills drop their coarsest load.
Read the full explanation →The older alluvium of the Northern Plains, lying above the flood level and containing lime nodules called kankar, is known as:
- A.Khadar
- B.Bhabar
- C.Bhangar
- D.Terai
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Bhangar is the older alluvial deposit of the Northern Plains. It forms terraces that stand above the present flood level, so fresh silt no longer reaches it, and long leaching has left calcareous concretions called kankar in its profile.
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