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Run the numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the riversRead the answer and worked solution →Land or seaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the measuresRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →India location bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Continents cover what share of the earth's surface?Read the answer and worked solution →Who, in 1596, first proposed that the Americas, Europe and Africa were once joined?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener named the single supercontinent:Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's mega-ocean, meaning all water, was called:Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea began to split about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →Pangaea first broke into Gondwanaland and which northern mass?Read the answer and worked solution →Bullard's 1964 computer fit of the Atlantic margins was tried at which depth line?Read the answer and worked solution →The gold placer deposits of the Ghana coast are believed to come from the:Read the answer and worked solution →Mesosaurus fossils are found only in South Africa and which other country?Read the answer and worked solution →Wegener's polar-fleeing force relates to the:Read the answer and worked solution →Who in the 1930s suggested convection currents operating in the mantle?Read the answer and worked solution →Rocks of the oceanic crust are nowhere older than:Read the answer and worked solution →Hess proposed the sea floor spreading hypothesis in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →Plate Tectonics was put forward in 1967 by McKenzie, Parker and independently by:Read the answer and worked solution →Plate tectonics divides the lithosphere into how many major plates?Read the answer and worked solution →The Nazca plate lies between the Pacific plate and:Read the answer and worked solution →The best-known example of a divergent boundary is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The place where one plate sinks under another is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Which ridge has the slowest plate movement, under 2.5 cm a year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Tethys Sea separated India from Asia until about:Read the answer and worked solution →India collided with Asia about how many million years ago?Read the answer and worked solution →The outpouring of Deccan Trap lava began around:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the minor platesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the drift evidenceRead the answer and worked solution →

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Run the numbers

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Questions
  1. Correct
    12
    Choices
    1. 12
    2. 21.9
    3. 30
  2. Correct
    21.9
    Choices
    1. 12
    2. 21.9
    3. 30
  3. Correct
    30
    Choices
    1. 12
    2. 21.9
    3. 30
  4. Correct
    3214
    Choices
    1. 3214
    2. 2933
    3. 6100
  5. Correct
    2933
    Choices
    1. 3214
    2. 2933
    3. 6100
  6. Correct
    6100
    Choices
    1. 3214
    2. 2933
    3. 6100
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right figure for each fact.
_Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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Slice the rivers

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Does not match the category
  1. Khyber
  2. Nathula
  3. Bolan
  4. Palk
Matches the category
  1. Ganga
  2. Mahanadi
  3. Krishna
  4. Godavari
  5. Kaveri
Instructions
Slice only the large rivers named for India.
_Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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Land or sea

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Upper category
Land
Lower category
Sea
Items
  1. Category
    Land
    Item
    Himalaya
  2. Category
    Land
    Item
    Hindukush
  3. Category
    Land
    Item
    Purvachal
  4. Category
    Land
    Item
    Khyber
  5. Category
    Sea
    Item
    Palk
  6. Category
    Sea
    Item
    Mannar
  7. Category
    Sea
    Item
    Lakshadwp
  8. Category
    Sea
    Item
    12 n miles
Instructions
Send each feature to India's land frontier or its sea frontier.
_Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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