Chapter-3[ Drainage]
1. In which of the following states is the Wular Lake located?
a) Rajasthan
b) Uttar Pradesh
c) Punjab
d) Jammu and Kashmir
Answer. d) Jammu and Kashmir.
Wular Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India and it is located in Jammu & Kashmir.
Wular Lake is formed due to tectonic origin and is situated on the banks of river Jhelum.
2. The river Narmada has its source at
a) Satpura
b) Brahmagiri
c) Amarkantak
d) Slopes of the Western Ghats
Answer. c) Amarkantak
- The origin of the Narmada River is in the Amarkantak hills in Madhya Pradesh.
- Satpura is the origin of the Tapi River.
- Brahmagiri is the source of the river Kaveri.
- The Godavari rivers originate from the slopes of the Western Ghats near Nashik.
- Krishna river originates from Mahabaleshwar.
3. Which one of the following lakes is a saltwater lake?
a) Sambhar
b) Dal
c) Wular
d) Gobind Sagar
Answer. a) Sambhar.
Sambhar Lake is the largest inland saltwater lake in India and it is located in Rajasthan.
Dal and Wular lakes are freshwater lakes and they are located in Jammu & Kashmir. Wular Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India.
Gobin Sager is also called Bhakhra Dam. It is located in Himachal Pradesh and built on the Sutlej River.
4. Which one of the following is the longest river in Peninsular India?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Mahanadi
Answer. c) the Godavari
- The Godavari River is the longest in peninsular India. It is about 1500 km long, and the Godavari River has its origin near Nasik in Maharashtra. The river is also called the Dakshin Ganga.
- The Narmada River originated in the Amarkantak hills of Madhya Pradesh. It has a length of around 1312 km.
- Krishna River rises in Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra. The river length is about 1400 km.
- Mahanadi river's length: 860 Km.
- Kaveri's river length: is 760 km. The river rises in the Brahmagiri hills of Western Ghats in Karnataka.
5. Which one of the following rivers flows through a rift valley?
a) Mahanadi
b) Tungabhadra
c) Krishna
d) Tapi
Answer. d) Tapi.
Narmada and Tapi rivers flow through a rift valley.
6. The area drained by a single river system is called a?
a) Catchment areas
b) Water divide
c) Drainage basin
d) Basin
Answer. c) Drainage basin
7. Any elevated area, such as a mountain or an upland, separates two drainage basins. Such an upland
is known as a?
a) Catchment areas
b) Water divide
c) Drainage basin
d) river system
Answer. b) Water divide
8. The world’s largest drainage basin is of which river?
a) Amazon
b) the Nile
c) Ganga
d) the Mekong
Answer. a) Amazon
9. Which river has the largest basin in India?
a) Indus
b) Ganga
c) the Brahmaputra
d) the Godavari
Answer. b) Ganga
10. Which of the following is an important feature of the upper course of a Himalayan river?
a) Deep gorge
b) Meanders
c) Oxbow lakes
d) Delta
Answer. a) Deep gorge
11. Which of the following is not an important feature of the middle and lower course of a Himalayan river?
a) Deep gorge
b) Meanders
c) Oxbow lakes
d) Delta
Answer. a) Deep gorge
12. Which of the following is an erosional feature of the river?
a) Deep gorge
b) Meanders
c) Oxbow lakes
d) Delta
Answer. a) Deep gorge
13. Which of the following is an important feature of the middle course of a river?
a) Deep gorge
b) Meanders
c) Oxbow lakes
d) Delta
Answer. b) Meanders
14. Which of the following is not true regarding the Himalayan and peninsular rivers?
a) Himalayan rivers have longer and deeper courses as compared to the peninsular rivers.
b) Peninsular rivers are perennial in nature.
c) Most of the rivers in peninsular India originate in the Western Ghats and flow towards the Bay of Bengal.
d) The two major Himalayan rivers, the Indus and the Brahmaputra originate from the north of the mountain ranges.
Answer. b) Peninsular rivers are perennial in nature.
15. A river along with its tributaries may be called a?
a) Catchment areas
b) Water divide
c) Drainage basin
d) River system
Answer. d) River system
16. the Zaskar, the Nubra, the Shyok, and the Hunza are the tributaries of which river?
a) Ganga
b) Indus
c) the Brahmaputra
d) Satluj
Answer. b) Indus
17. Which of the following tributaries of the Indus rises from north of the Himalaya?
a) The Satluj
b) the Beas
c) the Ravi
d) the Chenab
Answer. a) The Satluj
18. A little over a ----------- of the Indus basin is located in India Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Punjab.
a) Half
b) Third
c) Fourth
d) Fifth
Answer. b) Third
19. According to the regulations of the Indus Water Treaty (1960), India can use only ---------- percent of the total water carried by the Indus River system.
a) 10
b) 20
c) 40
d) 80
Answer. b) 20
20. The headwaters of the Ganga, called the?
a) Bhagirathi
b) Alaknanda
c) Ghaghra
d) Sunadarban
Answer. a) Bhagirathi
21. What is the Origin of the Bhagirathi river?
a) Gangotri glacier
b) Yamunotri River
c) Nanda Devi
d) Hemu Glacier
Answer. a) Gangotri glacier
22. Bhagirathi and Alaknanda joined at?
a) Devaprayag
b) Nandaprayag
c) Rudraprayag
d) Mahaprayag
Answer. a) Devaprayag
23. Which of the following lakes is located in Rajasthan?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Pulicat Lake
Answer. a) Sambhar Lake
24. Which of the following is the largest salt lake in India?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Pulicat Lake
Answer. a) Sambhar Lake; Salt Lake contains more than 3 % salt
25. Which of the following is the largest brackish lake in India?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Pulicat Lake
Answer. b) Chilika Lake; 1.5 to 3 % salty water-brackish lake
26. Which of the following is a freshwater lake?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Pulicat Lake
Answer. c) Kolleru lake
27. Which of the following lakes is located in Andhra Pradesh?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Wular Lake
Answer. c) Kolleru Lake
28. The largest freshwater lake in India is?
a) Sambhar Lake
b) Chilika Lake
c) Kolleru Lake
d) Wular Lake
Answer. d) Wular Lake
29. Penganga is a tributary of which river?
a) Godavari
b) Krishna
c) Kaveri
d) Ganga
Answer. a) Godavari
30. Tungabhadra is a tributary of which river?
a) Godavari
b) Krishna
c) Kaveri
d) Ganga
Answer. b) Krishna
31. Which of the following rivers does not rise in Nepal Himalaya?
a) Yamuna
b) Ghaghara
c) Gandak
d) Kosi
Answer. a) Yamuna;
32. The Namami Gange Programme is an Integrated Conservation Mission approved as a ‘flagship program’ by the Union Government in June ----?
a) 2013
b) 2014
c) 2015
d) 2016
Answer. b) 2014
33. Which of the following is not another name for the Brahmaputra river?
a) Tsangpo
b) Dihang
c) Jamuna
d) Meghana
Answer. d) Meghana
34. the world’s largest riverine island was formed by which river?
a) Amazon
b) the Nile
c) Ganga
d) the Brahmaputra
Answer. d) the Brahmaputra
35. Which of the following rivers make estuaries?
a) Godavari
b) Krishna
c) Narmada
d) Kaveri
Answer. c) Narmada
36. Which of the following rivers originated from Amarkantak hills?
a) Narmada
b) Tapi
c) the Godavari
d) Son
Answer. a) Narmada
38. Dhuadhar Falls are located on which river?
a) Narmada
b) Tapi
c) the Godavari
d) Son
Answer. a) Narmada
39. Which of the following rivers originated from the Satpura range?
a) Narmada
b) Tapi
c) the Godavari
d) Son
Answer. b) Tapi
40. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
River: Drainage Basin
a) Sabarmati River: Rajasthan, Gujarat
b) Mahi River: Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat
c) Bharathpuzha: Karnataka
d) Periyar: Tamil Nadu and Kerala
Answer. c) Bharathpuzha: Karnataka( It is in Tamil Nadu and Kerala)
41. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
River: Origin
a) Narmada: Amarakantak Hills
b) Tapi: Satpura Range
c) Sabarmati: Sahyadri
d) Godavari river: Nashik district of Maharashtra
Answer. c) Sabarmati: Sahyadri/ Aravali range
42. the Purna, the Wardha, the Pranhita, the Manjra, the Wainganga, and the Penganga are tributaries of which river?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Kaveri
Answer. c) the Godavari
43. Which of the following rivers originated near Mahabaleshwar?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Kaveri
Answer. b) Krishna
44. The Tungabhadra, the Koyana, the Ghatprabha, the Musi, and the Bhima are tributaries of which river?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Kaveri
Answer. b) Krishna
45. Amravati, Bhavani, Hemavati, and Kabini are tributaries of which river?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Kaveri
Answer. d) Kaveri
46. Shivasamudram Falls is the second biggest waterfall in India and it is on which river?
a) Narmada
b) Krishna
c) the Godavari
d) Kaveri
Answer. d) Kaveri
47. The name of the biggest waterfall in India?
a) Dhuadhar water
b) Dudh Sagar
c) Jog
d) Kunchikal Falls
Answer. d) Kunchikal Falls( Karnataka)
Jog waterfall: Sharavati river, Karnataka.
Dudh Sagar: Goa on Mandovi river.
Hundru falls: Subarnrekha in Ranchi.
48. What is the nature of the origin of Wular Lake?
a) Man-made
b) Tectonic origin
c) Ox-bow Lake, is the result of the river's meandering
d) It is the result of landslides
Answer. b) Tectonic origin
49. Guru Gobind Sagar or Bhakra Nangal Dam is on which river?
a) Satluj
b) Beas
c) Both Satluj and Beas rivers are connected
d) Ravi
Answer. c) Both Satluj and Beas rivers are connected
50. Nizam Sagar dam on which river?
a) Ravi
b) Krishna
c) Manjira
d) Godavari
Answer. c) Manjira is a tributary of the Godavari River.
51. Nagarjuna Sagar dam on which river?
a) Rihand
b) Krishna
c) Manjira
d) the Godavari
Answer. b) Krishna
52. Krishnaraja Sagar dam on which river?
a) Rihand
b) Krishna
c) Kaveri
d) the Godavari
Answer. c) Kaveri
53. Govind Ballabh Pant Sagar on which river?
a) Rihand
b) Mahanadi
c) Kaveri
d) the Godavari
Answer. a) Rihand
54. Hirakund Dam on which river?
a) Rihand
b) Mahanadi
c) Kaveri
d) the Godavari
Answer. b) Mahanadi
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Chapter Wise class 9 geography NCERT MCQ
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Click here for commentsAnswer of Q 24 is wrong it must be chilika lake
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