If in the east it is Guhar Moti, in north it is Siachen Glacier, then in south it is:
(a) Kuttanad
(b) Kanyakumari
(c) Rameshwaram
(d) Indira point
Solution: (d)
Guhar Moti is the western-most inhabited village in India, in Kutch district in Gujarat. Siachen Glacier, located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, marks the northern extremity of India. Similarly, Indira Point located in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Island, marks the southernmost point of India’s territory.
The Himalayas are also known by the name
(a) ancient mountains
(b) fold mountains
(c) valley mountains
(d) Indus mountains
Solution: (b)
The Himalayas are examples of fold mountains that are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together. The Himalayan mountain ranges were formed as result of a continental collision or orogeny along the convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.
The outermost range of Himalaya is called
(a) Kali
(b) Shiwalik
(c) Dehradun
(d) Kumaon
Solution: (b)
The Sivalik Hills is the outermost range of the Himalayas. Also known as Manak Parbat, it located in between the Great Plains and Lesser or Middle Himalayas. This range is about 2,400 km long enclosing an area that starts almost from the Indus and ends close to the Brahmaputra, with a gap of about 90 kilometres between the Teesta and Raidak rivers in Assam.
India shares longest international boundary with which country?
(a) Bangladesh
(b) China
(c) Nepal
(d) Bhutan
Solution: (a)
Bangladesh and India share a 4,096-kilometer-long international border, the longest border that India shares with any country. It is fifth-longest land border in the world, including 262 km in Assam, 856 km in Tripura, 180 km in Mizoram, 443 km in Meghalaya, and 2,217 km in Bengal. The border demarcates the six divisions of Bangladesh and the Indian states.
Which of the following areas or regions is most prone to earthquakes?
(a) Deccan Plateau
(b) Ganga-Brahmaputra Valley
(c) Plains of northern India
(d) Western Ghats
Solution: (b)
The Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is a high earthquake risk zone. It comes under Zone 5 covers the areas with the highest risks zone that suffers earthquakes of intensity MSK IX or greater. Experts warn that as many as a million deaths could be expected on the Ganges and Brahmaputra plain, as the south ern flank of the Himalayas has not been active enough over past centuries to release the energy accumulated by the upward movement of the Indian plate.
