Indian Geography MCQs

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A star-like pattern is found where a productive agricultural field is present with a dense road network. It is mainly found in the Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Upper Ganga Yamuna Doab region.

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The concentration of the Urban population is highest in the state of Maharashtra ( 13.48% of the total urban population of India). Maharashtra is followed by Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.

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Zone I and Zone II Agro-climatic zones of India are flood prone. Four main Agro-climatic zones have been identified in Bihar on the basis of  soil characterization, rainfall, temperature and terrain. Zone I is situated in the north-western part of the state  whereas Zone II is located in the north-eastern part. Agro Climatic Zones I and II are located north of the river Ganges. Zone-I is North Alluvial Plain and Zone-II is north East Alluvial Plain.

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Coal is the most important source of power in India. More than 65% of India’s electricity generation capacity comes from thermal power plants, with about 85% of the country’s thermal power generation being coal-based. India’s electricity sector consumes about 72% of the coal produced in the country.

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In the late Paleozoic period (542 – 250 million years ago) super continent Pangaea was formed that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. It first broke into Northern Laurasia (Angaraland) and Southern Gondwanaland. Gondwana was half of the Pangaea supercontinent, along with a northern superc-ontinent known as Laurasia. Later, the Laurasia and Gondwana drifted apart. Gondwana included present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica.

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The Neyyar River is 56 km long river which flows through the Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala in India. It flows from the Agastya Mala in the Western Ghats. The town Neyyattinkara in Thiruvananthapuram district, is situated on the banks of the river, is named after this river. It then finally empties into the Arabian Sea.

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The peninsular rivers are the rivers that originate from the peninsular plateaus and small hills of India. The peninsular Rivers in India include the Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery, Narmada, and Tapti or Tapi. Together they drain a significant portion of rural India. The Alaknanda is a Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism. 

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Kolleru Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes in India, is located in state of Andhra Pradesh. Kolleru spans into two districts – Krishna and West Godavari. The lake is fed directly by water from the seasonal Budameru and Tammileru streams. It is the largest shallow freshwaterlake in Asia.

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The land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km. India’s total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total geographical area of the world. India is the seventh largest country of the world. India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coastline of the mainland, including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep, is 7,516.6 km.

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Sundari tree is one of the most extensively found mangrove species in the Sundarbans. A mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. The Sundari tree (Heritiera fomes) comprises about 70% of the trees in the area.