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UPSC CDS Indian Geography — practice questions — page 8

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Running water cutting deep channels makes gullies; in the Chambal basin such bad lands are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Top soil washed away by water flowing as a sheet down a slope is:Read the answer and worked solution →Ploughing along contour lines to slow water down a slope is:Read the answer and worked solution →Cutting steps on slopes to restrict erosion, common in the western and central Himalayas, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the black soil factsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the soil typesRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real soil termRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the soil wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Erosion or conservationRead the answer and worked solution →Which soilRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Soils bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A trekker crosses the Karakoram, Ladakh, Zaskar and Pir Panjal ranges. She is in the:Read the answer and worked solution →The cold desert of Ladakh lies between the Greater Himalayas and the:Read the answer and worked solution →The valley of Kashmir and Dal Lake lie between the Great Himalayas and the:Read the answer and worked solution →Pangong Tso and Tso Moriri are examples of:Read the answer and worked solution →Srinagar stands on the banks of the:Read the answer and worked solution →Longitudinal valleys like Jammu dun and Dehra Dun are called:Read the answer and worked solution →The largest of all the duns, 35 to 45 km long, is:Read the answer and worked solution →Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath lie in which Himalayan section?Read the answer and worked solution →Kanchenjunga and the fast-flowing Tista belong to the:Read the answer and worked solution →In the Darjiling and Arunachal Himalayas, Shiwaliks are absent and are replaced by:Read the answer and worked solution →Rivers like the Kameng, Subansiri and Lohit give the Arunachal Himalayas the country's highest:Read the answer and worked solution →Manipur's physiography is unique for the large central lake called:Read the answer and worked solution →The northern plains stretch about how many km from east to west?Read the answer and worked solution →Rivers from the Shiwaliks drop boulders and sometimes vanish in a narrow 8 to 10 km belt called:Read the answer and worked solution →Streams re-emerge to form marshy, swampy land south of the Bhabar, called the:Read the answer and worked solution →The largest delta in the world, formed at the mouth of the Ganga-Brahmaputra, is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The Peninsular plateau rises from 150 m to an elevation of:Read the answer and worked solution →The oldest and most stable landmass of India is the:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Running water cutting deep channels makes gullies; in the Chambal basin such bad lands are called:

  1. Ravines
  2. Terai belt
  3. Duars belt
  4. Sand dunes
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Correct answer: A. Ravines

1. Gullies make land unfit for farming. 2. Such land is called bad land. 3. In the Chambal basin it is ravines. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 1, Resources and Development._

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Top soil washed away by water flowing as a sheet down a slope is:

  1. Glacial erosion
  2. Sheet erosion
  3. Gully erosion
  4. Wind erosion
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Correct answer: B. Sheet erosion

1. Water spreads over a large area. 2. It removes the top layer evenly. 3. This is sheet erosion. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 1, Resources and Development._

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Ploughing along contour lines to slow water down a slope is:

  1. Terrace farming
  2. Shelter belting
  3. Contour ploughing
  4. Strip cropping
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Correct answer: C. Contour ploughing

1. Ploughing up and down makes channels. 2. Ploughing across the slope slows water. 3. That is contour ploughing. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 1, Resources and Development._

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