geomorphology & earth landforms section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Geostrophic wind results from an exact balance between the choleric force and generated due to earth’s rotation and the pressure gradient.

Answer: (d)

The Limpopo River cuts through the Tropic of Capricorn twice. It rises in Transvaal and flows through South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.

The Limpopo is the second largest river in Africa that drains to the Indian Ocean, after the Zambezi River.

Answer: (c)

Mount Everest is the highest peak of the Himalayas and is the world’s highest peak with an elevation of 29,035 feet (8,850 meters).

K2 is the second-highest peak of the Himalayan mountain range and also the second-highest peak on earth with an elevation of 28,251 feet (8,611 meters).

Other famous peaks include Kailash, Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna, and Manasklu. The Himalayas includes more than 110 peaks rising to elevations of 24,000 feet (7,300 meters) or more above sea level.

Answer: (b)

The Himalayas, geologically young and structurally fold mountains stretch over the northern borders of India. These mountain ranges run in a west-east direction from the Indus to the Brahmaputra.

The Brahmaputra marks the easternmost boundary of the Himalayas. Beyond the Dihang gorge, the Himalayas bend sharply to the south and spread along the eastern boundary of India.

Answer: (b)

Uneven distribution of insolation on the earth is mainly due to the Earth’s tilted axis and the nearly spherical shape. The length of time that the Earth’s surface is exposed to solar radiation also changes throughout the year, depending on the season.

Another factor that affects the solar radiation on the Earth is the rotation of the Earth itself. All these factors lead to the unequal distribution of heat on the Earth, creating what is called a heat gradient.

Answer: (a)

Doab is a term used in India and Pakistan for the “tongue,” or tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary,

R. S. McGregor defines it as “a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers (esp. that between the Ganges and Jumna).