physiography geomorphology of india section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

The Aravalli Range, literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

It is one of the world's oldest mountain ranges. It dates back to the pre-Indian subcontinental collision with the mainland Eurasian Plate.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

All latitudes from 22.5 degrees North to 22.5 degrees South of the equator receive vertical or direct rays twice every year as the tilted earth circles the sun.

Tropic of Cancer is the determining line for finding out whether a city in India will get vertical rays of the Sun or not.

Since Srinagar lies to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, it never gets the vertical rays of the Sun.

Answer: (b)

The northern part of the west caost is known as Konkan Coast The Western Coastal Plain lies between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. The southern part of the west coast is known as Malabar Coast.

Answer: (b)

The Aravali Range (Aravali) literally meaning ‘line of peaks’, is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northwest to southwest across Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

The Aravali Range is the oldest fold mountains in India. The Aravali Range is the eroded stub of a range of ancient folded mountains.

The range rose in a Precambrian event called the Aravali-Delhi orogeny. The range joins two of the ancient segments that make up the Indian craton, the Marwar segment to the northwest of the range, and the Bundelkhand segment to the southeast.