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Question 501. What is Dakshin Gangotri ?
  1.    Unmanned station located in Antarctica
  2.    Second source of River Ganga
  3.    Island in the Indian Ocean
  4.    River valley in Andhra Pradesh
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Unmanned station located in Antarctica
Answer: (a)
Dakshin Gangotri was the first scientific base station of India situated in Antarctica, part of the Indian Antarctic Program.
Established during the third Indian expedition to Antarctica in 1983–84, it was an unmanned station, set up using indigenous Indian equipment, powered by Solar energy. The station was entirely computerized to record all data that was researched.
Question 502. The Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy and Mekong Rivers originate in Tibet narrow and flow in parallel mountain ranges in their upper reaches. Of these rivers, Brahmaputra makes a ‘U’ turn in its course to flow into India. This ‘U’ turn is due to
  1.    Syntaxial bending of geologically young Himalayas
  2.    Geo-tectonic disturbance in the tertiary folded mountain chains
  3.    Both (A) and (B)
  4.    Uplift of folded Himalayan ranges
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Syntaxial bending of geologically young Himalayas
Answer: (a)
Question 503. Which of the following rivers has its source outside India?
  1.    Beas
  2.    Ravi
  3.    Jhclum
  4.    Brahmaputra
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Brahmaputra
Answer: (d)
Brahmaputra River, also called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, is a transboundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia. With its origin from Talung Tso Lake in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges (including the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) and into Arunachal Pradesh (India) where it is known as Dihang or Siang.
It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna ( not to be mistaken with Yamuna of India). In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Padma, the main distributary of the Ganges, then the Meghna, before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
Question 504. What is Kayal?
  1.    Ganges Delta
  2.    Regur of Deccan Plateau
  3.    Lagoon of Kerala
  4.    Terai Plain
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Lagoon of Kerala
Answer: (c)
Question 505. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?
  1.    Bhubaneswar - Mahanadi
  2.    Jabalpur - Narmada
  3.    Surat – Tapti
  4.    Kota - Chambal
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Bhubaneswar - Mahanadi
Answer: (a)
Question 506. Gandak river is associated with one of the following river systems
  1.    Indus
  2.    Ganga
  3.    None of the above
  4.    Brahmaputra
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Ganga
Answer: (b)The Gandak River, river in central Nepal and Northern India is a left bank tributary of the Ganges in India.
Question 507. River Ganga, after entering Bangladesh is known by which of the following names?
  1.    Padma
  2.    Kaliganga
  3.    Nabaganga
  4.    Lohit
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Padma
Answer: (a)River Ganga after entering Bangladesh is known by Padma.
Question 508. Which of the following pairs are correctly matched? Water Falls River
  1. Kapildhara Falls – Godavari
  2. Jog Falls – Sharavati
  3. Sivasamudram - Cauvery Falls
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  1.    Only 2 and 3
  2.    Only 1 and 3
  3.    1, 2 and 3
  4.    Only 1 and 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Only 2 and 3
Answer: (a)
Question 509. Which is the most well-developed and the oldest canal systems of the world in India?
  1.    Sikri Canal
  2.    Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojna
  3.    Krishna-Godavari Canal System
  4.    Ganga Canal
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Ganga Canal
Answer: (d)
Question 510. On which of the following rivers, the Tehri Hydro Power Project has been constructed?
  1.    Yamuna and Bhagirathi
  2.    Kali and Tons
  3.    Bhagirathi and Bhilangana
  4.    Bhagirathi and Alaknanda
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Bhagirathi and Bhilangana
Answer: (c)

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