Where is Lakshadweep located?
- A.Bay of Bengal
- B.Pacific ocean
- C.Arabian sea
- D.Atlantic ocean
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Arabian sea. Lakshadweep is a group of small coral islands, atolls and reefs lying off the Malabar coast of Kerala in the Arabian Sea, built on a submarine ridge. It is the smallest union territory of India by area, and Kavaratti is its administrative headquarters.
Option A, the Bay of Bengal, holds India's other island group, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are of volcanic and tectonic origin rather than coral, so the two are easy to swap in a hurry. Option B, the Pacific Ocean, lies far to the east of Asia and washes no part of India. Option D, the Atlantic Ocean, lies on the other side of Africa and has no Indian territory in it at all. Remember the simple pair: coral Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea in the west, volcanic Andaman and Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal in the east.
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Practice Questions
View allThe narrow, pebble-studded belt at the foot of the Shiwaliks, where the streams descending from the mountains disappear underground, is called the
- A.Terai
- B.Bhabar
- C.Bhangar
- D.Khadar
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Where the rivers leave the hills they drop their coarsest load, and the resulting belt of gravel and pebbles is so porous that the smaller streams sink into it and vanish.
Read the full explanation →Which of the following is the highest peak of peninsular India?
- A.Doda Betta
- B.Anaimudi
- C.Mahendragiri
- D.Guru Shikhar
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Anaimudi stands in the Anaimalai hills of Kerala, where the Anaimalai, Palani and Cardamom hills meet, and rises to about 2,695 metres.
Read the full explanation →The Narmada and the Tapi are unusual among peninsular rivers because they
- A.rise in the Himalaya
- B.flow through rift valleys and drain into the Arabian Sea
- C.form large deltas on the eastern coast
- D.are entirely seasonal streams
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Both rivers flow westward along faulted troughs, or rift valleys, that lie between the Vindhya and the Satpura ranges, and both empty into the Arabian Sea through estuaries instead of deltas.
Read the full explanation →The Palghat Gap, an important break in the Western Ghats, lies between which two hill groups?
- A.Nilgiri and Anaimalai hills
- B.Cardamom and Palani hills
- C.Satpura and Maikal hills
- D.Javadi and Shevaroy hills
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The Palghat Gap is a wide trough about thirty kilometres across, and it is the principal natural break in the otherwise continuous wall of the Western Ghats.
Read the full explanation →Which range is regarded as the oldest fold mountain system in India?
- A.Satpura
- B.Aravalli
- C.Shiwalik
- D.Vindhya
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The Aravalli was folded in the Precambrian era, hundreds of millions of years before the Himalaya rose, and long erosion has reduced it to a chain of low residual ridges running north-east from Gujarat through Rajasthan towards Delhi.
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