Which district of Haryana normally receives the highest annual rainfall?
- A.Sirsa
- B.Bhiwani
- C.Panchkula
- D.Mahendragarh
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Panchkula. Panchkula lies in the Shivalik foothills at the north-eastern corner of the state. The monsoon current is lifted by the hills there, so the district receives well over a thousand millimetres in a good year, the highest in Haryana, and it is also the most forested district of the state for the same reason.
Option A, Sirsa, and Option B, Bhiwani, lie in the dry south-west towards the Rajasthan border and are among the driest districts, often under three hundred millimetres. Option D, Mahendragarh, in the Aravalli corner of southern Haryana, is drier still and is the district most often quoted for scarcity of water. A useful way to hold the fact is to pair the wettest and driest ends: Panchkula and Ambala at one end of the state, Sirsa and Mahendragarh at the other.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich hot and dry westerly wind blows over Haryana in May and June?
- A.Kalbaisakhi
- B.Loo
- C.Mango shower
- D.Norwester
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The loo is the hot, dry wind that blows from the west and north-west over the plains of Haryana, Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh in May and June.
Read the full explanation →Rainfall in Haryana decreases in which direction?
- A.From south-west to north-east
- B.From north-east to south-west
- C.From north to south evenly
- D.From east to west only along the Yamuna
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The Shivalik districts of Panchkula, Ambala and Yamunanagar in the north-east catch the first of the monsoon against the foothills and receive the heaviest rain of the state, while the south-western districts of Sirsa, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh lie towards the dry Thar margin and receive the least.
Read the full explanation →In Haryana, the loamy and most fertile soil is known locally by which name?
- A.Bhur
- B.Dakar
- C.Rausli
- D.Kallar
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Rausli is the loam of the central Haryana plain, a balanced mixture of sand, silt and clay.
Read the full explanation →The sandy soil of south-western Haryana is locally called:
- A.Bhur
- B.Rausli
- C.Dhankar
- D.Kandi
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Bhur is the light, loose, sandy soil found in Sirsa, Hisar, Bhiwani and Mahendragarh, where Haryana shades into the sandy tract of Rajasthan.
Read the full explanation →The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute is located in which city of Haryana?
- A.Hisar
- B.Karnal
- C.Ambala
- D.Rohtak
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The Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, a research institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, is at Karnal. It works on reclaiming salt-affected and alkaline land, on gypsum treatment and subsurface drainage, and on salt-tolerant crop varieties, all problems that Haryana's canal-irrigated districts face directly.
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