Previous Year Questions (PYQs): Mountains - UPSC MCQ

All the above features can be said to be the evidence for the Himalayas being young fold mountains. Deep gorges, U- turn river courses, Parallel Mountain Ranges, and steep gradient causing land sliding are very common views on the Himalayas.

The Ten Degree Channel separates the South Andaman and Car Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal.

The two sets of islands together form the Indian Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

About 97.5% of the water on the earth’s surface is saltwater. That leaves only 2.5 % that is fresh water. Of that, about 69% is frozen fresh water in glacier and ice caps, 30% is ground water, and only 1% is surface water in lakes, rivers, and in the atmosphere.

Block Mountains are created when large areas or blocks of earth are broken and displaced vertically. The Great African Rift Valley (valley floor is graben), The Rhine Valley and the Vosges Mountain in Europe are examples.

In India specifically the mountain ranges Satpura and Vindhya found in the central- western part of the Indian sub continent are block mountains, having formed through cracks in the earth's crust, these ranges rose while the block of earth known as the Rift Valley depressed.

• The Nilgiri (Blue Mountains), form part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala states of south India.
• Nilgiri hill station is known as the blue mountains of Tamilnadu.

In Himalaya.
The pass is about 4 km (2.5 mi) south of Nathu La and although it is higher, Jelep has been used for centuries by traders because of its less rugged terrain.

• The range lying to the immediate south of the Himadri is called Shiwaliks is the wrong statement about the Himalayan Mountains.
  
  ► The range lying to the immediate south of the Himadri is Himachal and to the immediate south of Himachal is Shiwaliks.
   
• Dalfa, Miri, Mishmi, Abor and Patkai are in Arunachal Pradesh, Dhang range, Dundwa range, Churian and Muria Ghats are in Nepal, and Jammu hills are in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Himalayan mountain system belongs to fold mountain system.

Fold mountains are created where two of Earth's tectonic plates are pushed together.

Pachmarhi, also known as 'Satpura ki Rani' or 'The Queen of Satpura' sits perfectly surrounded by nature, history, and mythology amidst the Satpura range.

The northeastern state as commonly known as seven sisters, of which Tripura is the state which is being surrounded by the neighbour country Bangladesh on all three sides except one.