The Andaman is separated from Nicobar by which water body?
(a) 11° channel
(b) 10° Channel
(c) Palk Strait
(d) Gulf of Mannar
Solution: (b)
The Ten Degree Channel is a channel that separates the Little Andaman and Car Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal. The two sets of islands together form the Indian Union Territory (UT) of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The channel is so named as it lies on the 10- degree line of latitude, north of the equator.
The longest sea beach in India is
(a) Chapora beach
(b) Diu beach
(c) Aksa beach
(d) Marina beach
Solution: (d)
Marina Beach, a natural urban beach in Chennai, is the longest beach of India with a length of 6.5 km. The beach runs from near Fort St. George in the north to Foreshore Estate in the south. It is the second longest beach in the world after Praia do Cassino beach of Brazil.
The Himalayas is an example of
(a) Fold mountains
(b) Block mountains
(c) Ancient mountains
(d) Residual mountains
Solution: (a)
The Himalayas is an example of Fold mountains that are created where two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates are pushed together. At these colliding, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded into rocky outcrops, hills, mountains, and entire mountain ranges. Besides, Andes, and Alps are all active fold mountains.
The continuous chain of mountains that rise abruptly more or less parallel to the coastline of India is
(a) Aravalli
(b) Satpura
(c) Eastern Ghats
(d) Western Ghats
Solution: (d)
Western Ghats (also known as Sahyadri) is a continuous mountain range that runs parallel to the western coast of the Indian peninsula. It abruptly rises as a sheer wall to an average elevation of 1,000 m from the Western Coastal Plain. But,they slope gently on their eastern flank and hardly appear to be a mountain when viewed from the Deccan tableland. They are steep-sided, terraced, hills presenting a stepped topography facing the Arabian Sea coast.
Which river originates from the Amarkantak plateau?
(a) Narmada river
(b) Son river
(c) Betwa river
(d) Godavari river
Solution: (a)
The source of the Narmada is a small bowl, known as the Narmada Kund, located at Amarkantak on the Amarkantak hill in the Anuppur District zone of eastern Madhya Pradesh.The river moves down from the Amarkantak range at the Kapildhara waterfalls and then flows in a rift valley between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges.
