CBSE Questions for Class 9 Geography Physical Features Of India Quiz 5 - MCQExams.com

• Doab is made up of two words-'do' meaning two and 'ab' meaning water.
  
• Doab is the area lying between two rivers flowing in the same direction.
  
• Doab refers to the riverine island where two rivers meet. 
  
• Doab is a term used in India and Pakistan for the "tongue," or tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers.
  

The Eastern Ghats or Purbaghaṭa are a discontinuous range of mountains along India’s eastern coast. They run from West Bengal through Orissa and Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu in the south passing some parts of Karnataka. They are eroded and cut through by the four major rivers of southern India, the Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Kaveri.

Jindhagada is the highest mountain in the Eastern Ghats situated in Araku, district Vishakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh with a height of 1,690 meters.

• A series of mountain ranges radiate from the Pamir Knot, including the Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Ladakh and Zaskar ranges.
  
• The Pamir Knot is known as "the Roof of the World" as it is at the convergence of the high mountain ranges.
  

• A body of land surrounded by water on three sides is called a peninsula. 
  
• The word comes from the Latin paene insula, meaning “almost an island.
  
•  In the United States Florida is the most obvious peninsula .
  
• A peninsula is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.
  

• Majuli has shrunk as the river surrounding it has grown. However, it is recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as World's Largest River Island. 
  
• The island is formed by the Brahmaputra river in the south and the Kherkutia Xuti, another branch of the Brahmaputra, joined by the Subansiri River in the north.
  
• The island is inhabited by Mising tribes, Deori and Sonowal Kachri tribes. 
  
• At the world's largest inhabited riverine island, ancient cultural traditions and nature blend into everyday life seamlessly.
  

The Western Coastal Plains is a thin strip of coastal plain 50 kilometers in width between the west coast of India and the Western Ghats hills, which starts near the south of river Tapi. They are bodied between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. The plains begin at Gujarat in the north and end at Kerala in the south. It also includes the states of Maharashtra, Goa and Karnataka. It consists of three sections. The Northern part of the coast is called the Konkan (Mumbai-Goa) whereas the central stretch is called the Kanara, while the southern stretch is referred to as the Malabar Coast.

• Chilka lake is a brackish water lagoon, spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha state on the east coast of India, at the mouth of the Daya River, flowing into the Bay of Bengal, covering an area of over 1,100 km². 
  
• It is the largest wintering ground for migratory birds on the Indian sub-continent.
  
• One of India’s largest saltwater lakes, it is 40 miles (65 km) long, 5 to 13 miles (8 to 20 km) wide, and about 6 feet (2 metres) deep. 

• Udhagamandalam (also Ootacamund ) and abbreviated as Udhagai and Ooty  is a town and municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
  
•  It is located 80 km north of Coimbatore and is the capital of the Nilgiris district  where the two ghats meet.
  
• Udhagamandalam (Ooty ) Popularly referred as the 'Queen of Hill Stations',
  
•  Udhagamandalam better known as Ooty is the most popular hill station in the South. Located in the Western ghats at a height of 2240 m.
  

• The eastward extensions of Peninsular Plateau are locally known as Bundelkhand and. Baghelkhand.
  
•  The Chhota Nagpur Plateau is the eastern extension of the Central Highlands.
  
•  The Damodar is an important river that drains this region.
  

• The Coromandel Coast is the southeastern coast region of the Indian Subcontinent, between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal.
  
•  The coastline runs between False Divi Point in the north to Kanyakumarii in the south.
  
•  It also has been known since ancient times as the “land of the temples,” for the many temples that are located .
  

• The Terai region in Northern Plains of India consists of wet, swampy and marshy land.
  
• Geologically, we find great physical variations on earth re-emerge and create a wet, swampy and marshy region known as the Terai.
  
• Terai region lies between Yamuna and Brahmaputra rivers.
  

• The Indus receives its most-notable tributaries from the eastern Punjab Plain.
  
•  These five rivers—the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej—give the name Punjab (“Five Rivers”) to the region divided between Pakistan and India. 
  
• The Ravi River is a river in Kashmir and Pakistan. 
  
•  It is also one of the major five rivers/tributaries of Indus.
  

• The Eastern Coastal Plains refers to a wide stretch of landmass of India, lying between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal.
  
•  It is wider and leveled than the western coastal plains and stretches from Tamil Nadu in the south to West Bengal in the north through Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
  
•  It is locally known as Northern Circars in the northern part between  Mahanadi and Krishna rivers and Coromandel Coast in the southern part between Krishna and Kaveri rivers.
  

Indonesia is the largest archipelago with the fourth population country in the world. It consists of five main islands Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua. It has a total of 17508 islands out of which 6000 are inhabited. It stretches 5,150 km between the Australian and Asian continental mainland. It divides the Pacific and Indian Oceans at the Equator.

• A barchan or barkhan dune is a crescent-shaped dune. 
  
• These are also called Crescent dunes.
  
•  A Barchan dune is an arc-shaped sand ridge, comprising of well-sorted sand grains.
  
• Barchans face the wind, appearing convex and are produced by wind action predominately from one direction.
  
•  They are a very common landform in sandy deserts all over the world and are arc-shaped, markedly asymmetrical in cross section, with a gentle slope facing toward the wind sand ridge, comprising well-sorted sand.

• The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula spread over 1,250,006 square miles. 
  
• The Arabian Peninsula is connected to the mainland Asian continent and surrounded on all sides by the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea.
  
• It is located in middle east and comprises of 7 countries including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar.
  

• Kamet lies in the Chamoli District of Uttarakhand, close to the border with Tibet. 
  
• It is the third highest mountain in India and it is the 29th highest in the world.
  
• In appearance, it resembles a giant pyramid topped by a flat summit area with two peaks.

• Length of coastline of India including the coastlines of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal and Lakshwadweep Islands in the Arabian Sea is 7517 km.
  
• Length of Coastline of Indian mainland is 6100 km.
  
•  Length of coastline (in km) (i) Gujarat 1214.7 (ii) Maharashtra 652.6(iii) Goa, Daman and Diu 160.5 (iv) Karnataka 280.0 (v) Kerala 569.7 (vi) Tamil Nadu 906.9 (vii) Pudducherry 30.6 (viii) Andhra Pradesh 973.7 (ix) Odisha 476.4 (x) West Bengal 157.5 (xi) Lakshadweep Islands 132.0 (xii) Andaman & Nicobar Islands 1962.0Total Coastline 7516.6.
  

• The Nilgiri (Blue Mountains), form part of the Western Ghats in western Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and kerala states of south India.
  
• Nilgiri hill station is known as blue mountains of Tamilnadu.
  
•  With Nilgiri hills travel tour and tourism explore best hotels,resort and places to visit in Nilgiri India.
  
• At least 24 of the Nilgiri mountains' peaks are above 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), the highest peak being Doddabetta, at 2,637 metres (8,652 ft).
  

• Matheran is a hill station and a municipal council in the Raigad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
  
•  It is a hill station in Karjat Tahsil and is also the smallest hill station in India.
  
•  It is located on the Western Ghats range at an elevation of around 800 m.

• The longitudinal valleys lying between the Himachal and Shiwaliks are called 'Dun'. These are s filled with alluvial deposits.
  
• Major duns found in the region are Dehra, Kothri, Chaukham, Patli and Kota.