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question_answer1) What is the common characteristic of the Sambhar, Pulicat and Chilika lakes?
question_answer2) Which is the largest natural inland lake in India?
question_answer3) The Satluj is a tributary of which river?
question_answer4) What are other names given to the Brahmaputra river?
question_answer5) What is the Sunderban famous for?
question_answer6) Through which states in India does the river Satluj flow?
question_answer7) What is the major objective of the National River Conservation Plan (NRCP)?
question_answer8) Identify the rivers of which the following are tributaries: the Gandak, the Dibang, the Ganga and the Tungabhadra.
question_answer9) Which of the three rivers, the Chenab, the Ravi and the Beas, flows in India only through the state of Jammu and Kashmir?
question_answer10) List three salient features of inland salt lakes.
question_answer11) Is it true that the water in a delta is salty, as it is close to the sea?
question_answer12) Which river in South India receives water both in summer and winter?
question_answer13) Which of the rivers Beas, Ghaghara, Indus and Yamuna rises from a glacier in Uttarakhand?
question_answer14) Which is the highest waterfall in India?
question_answer15) Which river flows for the longest length in India?
question_answer16) Which of the lakes out of Nagaijuna Sagar, Loktak, Chilika and Gobind Sagar are artificial lakes?
question_answer17) Why has industrial development flourished along rivers?
question_answer18) Out of the tributaries Ghaghara, Son, Kosi and Yamuna, which ones join the Ganga from the South and which from the North?
question_answer19) What is the meaning of the word 'doab'?
question_answer20) The Kaveri basin covers parts of which Indian states?
question_answer21) Which is the longest river of peninsular India?
question_answer22) Which type of drainage pattern develops where the river channel flows the slope of the terrain?
question_answer23) What is the name of the drainage pattern which resembles the branches of a tree?
question_answer24) What do you understand by the term "Drainage Basin"?
question_answer25) Name the place where the Ganga emerges from the mountains on to the plains.
question_answer26) Name the Indian state where river Brahmaputra enters in India.
question_answer27) Which is the longest river of the peninsular plateau?
question_answer28) Which river is known as "Dakshin Ganga"?
question_answer29) Which is the largest freshwater lake of India?
question_answer30) Name the saline water lake located in Rajasthan,
question_answer31) Name the Indian states through which Kaveri river passes.
question_answer32) At which place do the Satluj, the Beas, the Ravi, the Chenab and the Jhelum rivers join together to enter the river Indus?
question_answer33) What is the origin of the River Krishna?
question_answer34) Which drainage pattern does the river Ganga forms?
question_answer35) Where does river Narmada has its source?
question_answer36) Which is the largest brackish water lake in India? Where it is located?
question_answer37) Make a comparison in tabular form between the East flowing and West flowing rivers of the Peninsular plateau. Or Differentiate between East flowing and West flowing rivers of Peninsular plateau. Mention their name also. Or Differentiate between the salient features of East flowing and West flowing rivers of Peninsular India.
question_answer38) Explain what life would be like if freshwater is not available.
question_answer39) Describe inland drainage, giving its main features.
question_answer40) Make a comparison in tabular form between a delta and an estuary.
question_answer41) List the differences between glaciers and rivers.
question_answer42) Distinguish between a tributary and a distributary.
question_answer43) Make a list of natural and artificial lakes with the help of the atlas.
question_answer44) Below are given names of a few lakes of India. Group them under two categories, natural and created by human beings. _____________________________ (a) Wular________ (b) Pal________ (c) Nainital_______ (d) Bhimtal______ (e) Gobind Sagar_____(f) Loktak_______ (g) Barapani_______ (h) Chilika_______ (i) Sambhar_______ (j) Rana Pratap Sagar (k) Nizam Sagar_____ (I) Pulicat_______ (m) Nagarjuna Sagar (n) Hirakud
question_answer45) Why are rivers important for the country's economy?
question_answer46) A recent newspaper report from Nagpur states: "The pollution in Nag river and the city's lakes has been increasing with every passing year. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) reportedly turned the Nag, Pilli and Pilli rivers flowing through the city into sewage drains. Even though the condition of the lakes has become even more serious, the NMC, with an annual budget of ? 1200 crore, did nothing for the conservation of water bodies as it was depending on the government." 'What should the NMC and NIT have done to prevent this pollution and why?
question_answer47) What is a river pattern? Name any four patterns formed by the rivers?
question_answer48) Explain any three features of peninsular rivers.
question_answer49) Describe any three features of the Himalayan rivers. Or Explain main features of rivers originating from the Himalayas.
question_answer50) Name the peninsular river that create many picturesque locations. Write any two features of it Or Where does river Narmada originate? Name any two picturesque location formed by it. Or Identify the drainage pattern of river Narmada. Describe the features of this drainage pattern. Or Describe the largest peninsular West flowing river with regard to its sources, flow and drainage basin.
question_answer51) Describe the Indus river system on the following heads (i) Source (ii) Any two tributaries (iii) Indus Water Treaty.
question_answer52) Why are the rivers of the Western coastal plains short?
question_answer53) Describe the three main features of the Ganga river system.
question_answer54) (i) How are the most of the freshwater lakes in the Himalayan region formed? Give two examples of freshwater lakes of this region. (ii) How is Sambhar lake useful?
question_answer55) Give four characteristics of the Ganga Brahmaputra delta.
question_answer56) Explain the use of salt water lakes in India with particular reference to Chilika and Sambhar lakes.
question_answer57) Discuss the significant difference between the Himalayan and the Peninsular rivers. Or Give any three differences between peninsular and Himalayan rivers.
question_answer58) Explain how pollution is caused to river water and what action the government is taking to minimise it.
question_answer59) Describe the various drainage patterns of rivers giving some examples of Indian rivers.
question_answer60) Explain the differences between the Indus basin and the Ganga basin in tabular form.
question_answer61) What are the causes of water pollution in rivers and lakes?
question_answer62) State some economic benefits of rivers and lakes.
question_answer63) The textbook states: "Imagine that if Srinagar, Nainital and other tourist places did not have a lake, would they have been as attractive as they are today? Have you ever tried to know the importance of lakes in making a place attractive to tourists?" Can you answer these questions?
question_answer64) Rivers are very important for development in India? Explain. Or Explain any three reasons for the significance of rivers for economy of a country. Or Rivers have been of fundamental importance throughout human history? How do rivers affect economy of a country? Explain Or Highlight the role of rivers in agricultural economy like India. Write any three points.
question_answer65) How lakes are of great value to human beings? State any six importance's, Or What is lake? Explain the importance of lakes. Or Describe any three benefits of lakes?
question_answer66) What are the causes of river pollution? Suggest some ways to overcome them? Or Analyse the causes that result into river pollution. Or Mention any three causes of increasing pollution in rivers. Or Why the water pollution is a significant danger? Explain.
question_answer67) Explain the 'National River Conservation Plan' (NRCP) in brief.
question_answer68) What is an ox-bow lake?
question_answer69) Name five tributaries of the river Ganga.
question_answer70) What is a water divide?
question_answer71) Name five man-made lakes and five natural lakes in India.
question_answer72) Name the river known as the 'Sorrow of West Bengal'. Why is it given this name?
question_answer73) What is the Indus Water Treaty?
question_answer74) What is a braided stream?
question_answer75) Name three famous waterfalls in India and the rivers on which they are situated.
question_answer76) Name five rivers rising in the Western Ghats.
question_answer77) In the radial drainage pattern, why do streams flow in all directions from a central point?
question_answer78) Name three major rivers of the subcontinent which originate beyond the Himalayas.
question_answer79) Which river has the largest basin in India?
question_answer80) Find out the name of the highest waterfall in India.
question_answer81) What is meant by a water divide? Give an example.
question_answer82) Which is the largest river basin in India?
question_answer83) Where do the rivers Indus and Ganga have their origin?
question_answer84) Name the two headstreams of the Ganga. Where do they meet to form the Ganga?
question_answer85) Why does the Brahmaputra in its Tibetan part have less silt, despite a longer course?
question_answer86) Which two peninsular rivers flow through a trough?
question_answer87) What you understand by the terms 'lagoon' and "estuary"?
question_answer88) (a) Two features are shown on the outline map of India. Identify these features and write their names on the lines marked on the map. 1. A man-made lake in Sonbhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. 2.A river on which the Krishna Raja Sagar Dam has been built. (b) On the map, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols 1. A brackish water lake in the State of Odisha. 2. The longer river having trellis type drainage system and flowing through Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
question_answer89) (a) Two features are shown on the outline map of India. Identify these features and write their names on the lines marked on the map. (i) A lake in Rajasthan from which salt is manufactured. (ii)This river originates from the highlands of Chhattisgarh. (b) On the map, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols 1. A salt water lake on the border between Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. 2. A river joining the Ganga from the South in Uttar Pradesh.
question_answer90) (a) Two features are shown on the outline map of India. Identify these features and write their names on the lines marked on the map. (a)The river flowing North of the Tapi and having its estuary in the Gulf of Khambat. (b) This river flows through three-countries. (b) On the map, locate and label the following with appropriate symbols 1. The river having the longest length in India. 2. This river flowing South of the Godavari has the largest river basin in South India.
question_answer91) What does the term 'Drainage' mean?
question_answer92) What is a 'drainage basin'?
question_answer93) Which part of the land is called 'water divide'?
question_answer94) Into which two major groups are Indian rivers divided?
question_answer95) Which rivers are called perennial?
question_answer96) What do Himalayan rivers do in their upper course?
question_answer97) What do Himalayan rivers do in the middle and lower course?
question_answer98) Which river has the largest basin in India?
question_answer99) How dendritic pattern is formed by the river?
question_answer100) How is Trellis Pattern developed by a river?
question_answer101) How is rectangular drainage pattern formed?
question_answer102) When does a Radial pattern of drainage develop?
question_answer103) Why are Peninsular rivers called seasonal?
question_answer104) Name the rivers which originate in Central Highlands & flow towards the west.
question_answer105) What is a river system?
question_answer106) From where does river Indus originate?
question_answer107) Name the tributaries which join Indus in Kashmir.
question_answer108) Which are the main tributaries of river Indus?
question_answer109) What is the total length of river Indus?
question_answer110) In which states of India, Indus Basin is located?
question_answer111) What are the regulations of Indus Water Treaty of I960?
question_answer112) From which place does river Ganga originate?
question_answer113) Name the main tributaries of the river Ganga.
question_answer114) Which rivers rise from Nepal Himalaya?
question_answer115) Which tributaries join Ganga from peninsulas uplands?
question_answer116) How is Sunderban Delta formed?
question_answer117) How is Sunderban Delta named?
question_answer118) What is the total length of the river Ganga?
question_answer119) Which place is located on water divide of river Ganga and the Indus?
question_answer120) From where does river Brahmaputra originate?
question_answer121) From where does river Brahmaputra enter India?
question_answer122) Which tributaries join Brahmaputra in Assam?
question_answer123) By what name is Brahmaputra known in Tibet and Bangladesh?
question_answer124) Why does river Brahmaputra carry less water in Tibet?
question_answer125) How does Brahmaputra river cause damage in Assam during rainy season?
question_answer126) Name the major Peninsular rivers.
question_answer127) Which two peninsular rivers form-estuaries?
question_answer128) Which Peninsular rivers form delta?
question_answer129) At what place Narmada river rises?
question_answer130) How does river Narmada create picturesque locations?
question_answer131) From which states Narmada river Hows?
question_answer132) From where does River Tapi originate?
question_answer133) Which are the main west flowing rivers of Western Ghats?
question_answer134) Which river is the largest Peninsular river?
question_answer135) The Godavari rises from which place?
question_answer136) In which states Godavari's basin lies?
question_answer137) Name the tributaries of river Godavari.
question_answer138) Which river is called 'Dakshin Ganga'?
question_answer139) From where the Mahanadi river rises?
question_answer140) What is length of river Mahanadi?
question_answer141) From which states river Mahanadi passes?
question_answer142) From which region River Krishna rises?
question_answer143) What is the length of river Krishna?
question_answer144) Name the major tributaries of River Krishna.
question_answer145) In which states the basin of river Krishna lies?
question_answer146) From which place river Kaveri originates and at which place it merges?
question_answer147) What is the total length of river Kaveri?
question_answer148) Name the tributaries of river Kaveri?
question_answer149) Which regions of India are drained by river Kaveri?
question_answer150) What is 'Shivasamudram'? What is its use?
question_answer151) How are lakes formed?
question_answer152) How ox-bow lakes are formed?
question_answer153) How lagoons are formed?
question_answer154) How lakes become seasonal?
question_answer155) What are fresh water lakes?
question_answer156) Name some of the fresh water lakes of India.
question_answer157) How man-made lakes are formed?
question_answer158) What is the importance of lakes?
question_answer159) How rivers help in an agricultural country like India?
question_answer160) How growing demand of water from rivers, affects the quality of water?
question_answer161) What does 'drainage' mean? What is a 'drainage basin'?
question_answer162) What is meant by 'water divide'? Give an example.
question_answer163) From where does the river Indus originate and which tributaries join the main river?
question_answer164) From where does the river Ganga originate and which tributaries join it?
question_answer165) Prepare a short note on the 'Sunderban Delta'.
question_answer166) How does the Brahmaputra river enter India? Which are its tributaries?
question_answer167) From where does the river Narmada originate? How is the Narmada basin formed?
question_answer168) Prepare a short note on the river Tapti.
question_answer169) Give a brief description of 'Dakshin Ganga'.
question_answer170) What do you know about the Mahanadi river?
question_answer171) From where does the river Krishna originate and name its tributaries?
question_answer172) State some economic benefits of rivers and lakes.
question_answer173) Discuss the significant differences between the Himalayan and the Peninsular rivers.
question_answer174) Compare the East flowing and West flowing rivers of the Peninsular plateau.
question_answer175) Define the following drainage patterns: Dendritic, Trellis, Rectangular and Radial.
question_answer176) What are the main causes of pollution of Indian rivers?
question_answer177) What types of lakes are found in India? Give suitable examples.
question_answer178) What are the benefits of lakes to human beings?
question_answer179) Give characteristics of the Ganga-Brahmaputra River System.
question_answer180) Write main features of Indus Basin.
question_answer181) Give main characteristics of the Ganga River System.
question_answer182) What are the main characteristics of the mighty river Brahmaputra?
question_answer183) Write down the differences between a delta and an estuary.
question_answer184) Give main characteristics of the largest peninsular river.
question_answer185) How Indian lakes differ from each other?
question_answer186) Which one of the following describes the drainage patterns resembling the branches of a tree? (a) Radial (b) Dendritic (c) Trellis (d) Rectangular
question_answer187) Which one of the following lakes is a salt water lake? (a) Sambhar (b) Wular (c) Dal (d) Pushkar
question_answer188) In which of the following places do the Bhagirathi and Alaknanda rivers join? (a) Devaprayag (b) Sanguan (c) Brahmagiri (d) Hrishikesh
question_answer189) At what place do the Ganga and Yamuna rivers have their confluence? (a) Allahabad (b) Haridwar (c) Kolkata (d) Dehradun
question_answer190) Brahmapurta enters India in the state of: (a) Assam (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Sikkim (d) Manipur
question_answer191) Which river is known as 'Dakshin Ganga'? (a) Godavari (b) Krishna (c) Kaveri (d) Gandak
question_answer192) Describe the journey of river Ganga in India and which rivers join it en route.
question_answer193) Have you heard about'Dakshin Ganga'? Give an account of its course.
question_answer194) Define the role of rivers in Indian economy.
question_answer195) What are the main causes of the pollution in the rivers of India? How can we prevent this kind of pollution?
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