indian drainage irrigation rivers & projects section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Masonry dams are dams made out of masonry; mainly stone and brick. They are either the gravity or the arch type.

The largest masonry dam in the world is Nagarjunasagar Dam in India which is built across Krishna River at Nagarjunasagar in Guntur and Nalgonda districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Answer: (c)

West-flowing rivers in India such as Narmada and Tapti do not form deltas. They flow through the fault region created by the mountains Vindhya and Satpura which is rocky and devoid of any alluvial material.

Thus they don’t carry many sediments to form deltas.

Answer: (a)

The Kaveri, also spelt Cauvery in English, is a large Indian river.

The origin of the river is traditionally placed at Talakaveri, Kodagu in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, flows generally south and east through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and across the southern Deccan plateau through the southeastern lowlands, emptying into the Bay of Bengal through two principal mouths. Rising in southwestern Karnataka, it flows southeast some 800 km to enter the Bay of Bengal.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The Luni is a river of western Rajasthan state, India. It originates in the Pushkar valley of the Aravalli Range, near Ajmer and ends in the marshy lands of Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, after travelling a distance of 530 km.

It is first known as Sagarmati, then after passing Govindgarh, it meets its tributary Sarsuti, which originates from Pushkar Lake, and from then on it gets its name Luni.

Answer: (b)