physiography geomorphology of india section 7 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 31 BPSC (Pre) 2016]

At which of the following hills the Eastern Ghats join the Western Ghats?

a) Anamudi Hills

b) Nilgiri Hills

c) Shevaroy Hills

d) Palani Hills

Answer: (b)

Question : 32 [UPPCS 2008]

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists.

List I List II
(Sea Beach) (State)
A. Deegha 1. Tamil Nadu
B. Gopalpur 2. West Bengal
C. Calangute 3. Orissa
D. Marina 4. Goa
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 3 4 1

b) 2 1 3 4

c) 4 3 2 1

d) 1 2 4 3

Answer: (a)

Question : 33 [SSC CML 2002]

An example of ‘horseshoe’ shaped coral islands in the neighbourhood of India is

a) Maldives

b) Lakshadweep

c) Sri Lanka

d) Andaman and Nicobar is lands

Answer: (b)

The Lakshadweep islands are formed of coral deposits called atolls. Atolls are circular or horseshoe shaped coral reefs.

Question : 34

The Mt. Everest is situated in the region of

a) Kumaon Himalayas

b) Nepal Himalayas

c) Punjab Himalayas

d) Assam Himalayas

Answer: (b)

Question : 35 [SSC CISF 2011]

The sea which existed in the place of the Himalayas was

a) Arabian Sea

b) Tethys Sea

c) Dead Sea

d) Red Sea

Answer: (b)

The Tethys Ocean was an ocean that existed between the continents of Gondwana and Laurasia during much of the Mesozoic era, before the opening of the Indian and Atlantic oceans during the Cretaceous period.

Today, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the Indian Ocean cover the area once occupied by the Tethys Ocean, and Turkey, Iraq, and Tibet sit on Cimmeria. What was once the Tethys Sea has become the Mediterranean Sea.

Geologists have found fossils of ocean creatures in rocks in the Himalayas, indicating that those rocks were once underwater, before the Indian continental shelf began pushing upward as it smashed into Cimmeria.

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