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A boatman on the northern plains sees rivers branching like a tree. This drainage pattern is:Read the answer and worked solution →Rivers spread out in all directions from the Amarkantak range. The pattern is:Read the answer and worked solution →A line separating one drainage basin from the next is the:Read the answer and worked solution →What share of India's drainage area drains into the Bay of Bengal?Read the answer and worked solution →Himalayan rivers flow all year because they are fed by rain and:Read the answer and worked solution →A Bihar farmer dreads the river that keeps shifting its course, the sorrow of Bihar. It is the:Read the answer and worked solution →In Tibet the Indus is called Singi Khamban, meaning:Read the answer and worked solution →The Panjnad joining the Indus is made of the Satluj, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Jhelum rises from a spring at Verinag and flows through Srinagar and which lake?Read the answer and worked solution →Chandra and Bhaga join at Tandi to form which largest tributary of the Indus?Read the answer and worked solution →The Satluj feeds the canal system of which project?Read the answer and worked solution →At Devprayag the Bhagirathi meets the Alaknanda and the river is then called the:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A boatman on the northern plains sees rivers branching like a tree. This drainage pattern is:

  1. Dendritic
  2. Radial one
  3. Trellis one
  4. Centripetal
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Correct answer: A. Dendritic

1. Dendritic means tree-like. 2. The rivers of the northern plain show it. 3. So the pattern is dendritic. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 3, Drainage System._

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Rivers spread out in all directions from the Amarkantak range. The pattern is:

  1. Centripetal
  2. Radial flow
  3. Dendritic
  4. Trellis flow
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Correct answer: B. Radial flow

1. The rivers start from one hill. 2. They flow outward in every direction. 3. That is a radial pattern. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 3, Drainage System._

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A line separating one drainage basin from the next is the:

  1. Watershed
  2. Delta line
  3. Estuary
  4. Gorge line
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Correct answer: A. Watershed

1. Each river drains its own basin. 2. A boundary separates neighbouring basins. 3. That boundary is the watershed. _Source: syllabus Geography, India Physical Environment, Chapter 3, Drainage System._

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