The Narmada river rises from which of the following?
- A.Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh
- B.Trimbakeshwar in Maharashtra
- C.Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra
- D.Brahmagiri range in Karnataka
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, the Amarkantak plateau in Madhya Pradesh, where the Narmada rises at about one thousand metres and begins its westward journey of some thirteen hundred kilometres through Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat to the Gulf of Khambhat; on the way it makes the Dhuandhar falls and the marble gorge at Jabalpur. Option B is wrong because Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district is the source of the Godavari. Option C is wrong because Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats is the source of the Krishna, and also of the Koyna and the Venna. Option D is wrong because the Brahmagiri range at Talakaveri in Kodagu district of Karnataka is the source of the Cauvery. These four source and river pairs appear together in matching questions almost every year, and the Amarkantak answer is doubly useful because the Son and the Mahanadi also begin from the same plateau country.
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Practice Questions
View allThe drainage pattern in which the tributaries of a river look like the branches of a tree is called
- A.Radial
- B.Dendritic
- C.Centripetal
- D.Trellis
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The word comes from the Greek for tree, and the pattern develops where the underlying rock is of uniform hardness and the slope is gentle, so the streams branch freely without being guided by lines of weakness; the tributaries of the Ganga in the northern plain are the standard Indian…
Read the full explanation →The Narmada, the Son and the Mahanadi flowing out in different directions from the Amarkantak plateau is an example of which drainage pattern?
- A.Radial
- B.Rectangular
- C.Parallel
- D.Deranged
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In a radial pattern the streams start from a dome, a volcanic cone or a high plateau and run outward in all directions like the spokes of a wheel.
Read the full explanation →Which is the largest river basin of India by area?
- A.Godavari basin
- B.Indus basin
- C.Ganga basin
- D.Brahmaputra basin
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The correct answer is C, the Ganga basin, which covers about 8.6 lakh square kilometres inside India, close to a quarter of the country, and takes in parts of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi.
Read the full explanation →Which river of peninsular India is known as the Dakshin Ganga and has the largest basin in the peninsula?
- A.Krishna
- B.Godavari
- C.Mahanadi
- D.Cauvery
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It rises at Trimbakeshwar in Nashik district of Maharashtra, runs about one thousand four hundred kilometres across Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to the Bay of Bengal, and drains about 3.1 lakh square kilometres, the largest catchment in the peninsula, which is why it is called the Ganga of the…
Read the full explanation →Centripetal drainage, in which streams flow inward from all sides, is best illustrated in India by the streams draining into
- A.Chilika lake
- B.Wular lake
- C.Loktak lake
- D.Sambhar lake
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Loktak lies in the floor of the Manipur valley, which is ringed by hills, so the streams of the valley run inward into it from every side, the classic shape of a centripetal pattern; the lake is also known for its floating phumdis and for Keibul Lamjao, the only floating…
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