Test: Class 9 Geography NCERT Based - 1 - UPSC MCQ

A peninsula is a land almost surrounded by water but is connected to the mainland on one side.

The great Himalayas are also called Higher Himalayas or Great Himalaya Range, highest and Northernmost section of the Himalayan mountain ranges.

It extends southeastward across northern Pakistan, northern India, and Nepal before trending eastward across Sikkim state (India) and Bhutan and finally turning northeastward across northern Arunachal Pradesh state (India); throughout nearly all of its length, it adjoins to the north the southern Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

The north and north-eastern India comprises the Himalayas that separates India from the Tibetan plateau and the other Hindu Kush and Patkai at the north-eastern border with Burma.

These ranges include the world's tallest mountains that impact the climatic conditions of India. Some of the major Indian rivers originate from these ranges and flow through the plains, joining the ocean.

The Satpura and the Aravallis are also important mountain ranges running across parts of central and northern India. It is the world's highest mountain range bordering India at northeast that holds the tallest peak known as Mount Everest.

The Gujarat state on the west extends about 675 miles (1,086 km) across Madhya Pradesh state to abut on the Ganges (Ganga) River valley near Varanasi Uttar Pradesh.

The mountains form the southern edge of the Malwa Plateau. They then divide into two branches: the Kaimur Range, running north of the Son River into western Bihar state, and the southern branch, running between the upper reaches of the Son and Narmada rivers to meet the Satpura Range in the Maikala Range (or Amarkantak Plateau).

The entire southern peninsula of India south of the Narmada River marked centrally by a high triangular tableland.

The name derives from the Sanskrit Dakshina ("south"). The plateau is bounded on the east and west by the Ghats, escarpments that meet at the plateau's southern tip.

Its northern extremity is the Satpura Range. The Deccan's average elevation is about 2,000 feet (600 metres), sloping generally eastward. Its principal rivers— the Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri (Cauvery)—flow from the Western Ghats eastward to the Bay of Bengal. The plateau's climate is drier than that on the coasts and is arid in places.

Chota Nagpur, a plateau in eastern India, in northwestern Chhattisgarh and central Jharkhand states.

The plateau is composed of Precambrian rocks (i.e., rocks more than about 540 million years old).

Chota Nagpur is the collective name for the Ranchi, Hazaribagh, and Koderma plateaus, which collectively have 25,293 square miles (65,509 square km).

Its largest division is the Ranchi Plateau, which has an average elevation of about 2,300 feet (700 metres). In its entirety, the Chota Nagpur plateau lies between the basins of the Ganges (Ganga) and Son rivers to the north and the Mahanadi River to the south.

The Western Ghats are internationally recognized as a region of immense global importance for conserving biological diversity, besides containing areas of high geological, cultural and aesthetic values.

A chain of mountains running parallel to India's western coast, approximately 30-50 km inland, the Ghats traverse Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat. These mountains cover around 140,000 km² in a 1,600 km long stretch that is interrupted only by the 30 km Palghat Gap at around 11°N.

Older than the great Himalayan mountain chain, India's the Western Ghats are a geomorphic feature of immense global importance. The Outstanding Universal Value of the Western Ghats is manifested in the region's unique and fascinating influence on large-scale biophysical and ecological processes over the entire Indian peninsula.

The Eastern Ghats are a discontinuous range of mountains along India's eastern coast.

The Eastern Ghats run from the northern Odisha through Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu in the south passing some parts of Karnataka and Kerala's Wayanad district.

They are eroded and cut through by four major rivers of peninsular India, viz. Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Kaveri.

The mountain ranges run parallel to the Bay of Bengal. The Deccan Plateau lies to the west of the range, between the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats.

The Thar Desert, also called the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of rolling sandhills on the Indian subcontinent.

It is located partly in Rajasthan state, northwestern India, and partly in Punjab and Sindh (Sind) provinces, eastern Pakistan.

The Thar Desert covers some 77,000 square miles (200,000 square km) of territory. The irrigated Indus River plain borders it to the west, the Punjab Plain to the north and northeast, the Aravalli Range to the southeast, and the Rann of Kachchh to the south.

Plate tectonics, theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth's outer shell—the lithosphere—that revolutionized Earth sciences by providing a uniform context for understanding mountain-building processes, volcanoes, and earthquakes as the evolution of Earth's surface and reconstructing its past continents and oceans.

A strait is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.

A fracture may form it in an isthmus, a narrow body of land that connects two bodies of water.

The Republic of India is located at 21.0000° N latitude and 78.0000° E longitude in Asia.

For India, the latitude of 22° 00' N and longitude of 77° 00' E denote its geographical alignment.

Kanyakumari at 8°4′41″N and 37°32′28″E is the southernmost tip of the Indian mainland, while the southernmost point in India is Indira Point on Great Nicobar Island.

In the year 2004, Indra Point submerged under the water. Located at Great Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indra Point is a village in the Nicobar district. R

The Suez Canal is a human-made waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Red Sea. It enables a more direct route for shipping between Europe and Asia, effectively allowing for passage from the North Atlantic to the Indian Ocean without circumnavigating the African continent.

The waterway is vital for international trade and, as a result, has been at the centre of conflict since it opened in 1869. The Suez Canal stretches 120 miles from Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt southward to Suez's city (located on the northern shores of the Gulf of Suez).

The Kavaratti is the capital of the Union Territory Lakshadweep in India.

The Island of Kavaratti lies 360Km of the State of Kerala's coast at 10.57°N 72.64°E is the closest major city on the Indian mainland at 404 km (218 mi).

Tropic of Cancer is an imaginary line, at an angle of 23.50 degrees North from the Equator, that passes through India's middle.

If you run this imaginary line around Earth (Yes, Flat-Earthlings, the Earth is spherical), it passes through 17 countries, India being one of them.

The Tropic of Cancer passes through eight states in India: Gujarat (Jasdan), Rajasthan (Kalinjarh), Madhya Pradesh (Shajapur), Chhattisgarh (Sonhat), Jharkhand (Lohardaga), West Bengal (Krishnanagar), Tripura (Udaipur) and Mizoram (Champhai).

IST stands for Indian Standard Time. Indian Standard Time is the time observed in India and Sri Lanka.

It passes through Allahabad. India has a time of GMT+5:30.

Its main importance is that it helps us schedule parties, functions, etc., which are connected throughout the country.

Coastal India has a coastline of 7516.6 km along the Arabian sea through the Bay of Bengal, The coastline of India starts from of the Gulf of Kutch across the Gulf of Khambhat then Konkan to Kanara and through the Malabar along the Arabian sea and goes along the Bay of Bengal through the Coromandel Coast, Puducherry, Utkala to Sunderbans in Coastal East India.

Temperature lag is an important factor in diurnal temperature variation: peak daily temperature generally occurs after noon, as air keeps net absorbing heat even after noon, and similarly minimum daily temperature generally occurs substantially after midnight, indeed occurring during early morning in the hour around dawn, since heat is lost all night long.

The analogous annual phenomenon is seasonal lag. High desert regions typically have the greatest diurnal-temperature variations, while low-lying humid areas typically have the least.

South West Monsoon is a major one which occurs from July -September .Majority of Indian states receives the rainfall from this Monsoon. Rain hits first the state of kerala and along the coastal areas of karnataka/Maharashtra ( Konken coastal area).

After it gains momentum it crosses the Western ghats downpours in all other states of India. The North East Monsoon mostly starts at the end of September. This monsoon wind gets obstructed by Eastern ghats and downpours at eastern coastal area (Coromandel Coast) along Andra pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The coastal area of Andhra Pradesh and majority of Tamil Nadu receives most rainfall from this Monsoon. It is Kerala which receives first rainfall. If Kerala receives first rainfall in June ( i guess) all the farmers will be revealed that monsoon is On-time.