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In which part of the continent of Asia is India located?Read the answer and worked solution →Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and which strait?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two island countries in the Indian Ocean are India's neighbours?Read the answer and worked solution →School Bhuvan, a map-based learning portal, is an initiative of which agency?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the passesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the subcontinentRead the answer and worked solution →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 →

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In which part of the continent of Asia is India located?

  1. South-central
  2. North-eastern
  3. Far western
  4. Central north
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Correct answer: A. South-central

1. India borders the Indian Ocean. 2. It lies in south-central Asia. 3. Its two arms are the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. _Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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Sri Lanka is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and which strait?

  1. Bering Strait
  2. Palk Strait
  3. Malacca Strait
  4. Hormuz Strait
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Correct answer: B. Palk Strait

1. Sri Lanka and Maldives are island neighbours. 2. The Palk Strait separates Sri Lanka from India. 3. The Gulf of Mannar lies to its south. _Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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Which two island countries in the Indian Ocean are India's neighbours?

  1. Indonesia and Brunei
  2. Madagascar and Comoros
  3. Sri Lanka and Maldives
  4. Mauritius and Seychelles
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Correct answer: C. Sri Lanka and Maldives

1. India's maritime location links it to neighbours by sea. 2. Sri Lanka and Maldives are the island neighbours. 3. The Palk Strait divides India and Sri Lanka. _Source: syllabus India Physical Environment, Chapter 1, India Location._

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