Indian Geography Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 15)

The Yamuna rises at the Yamunotri Glacier, near Banderpoonch peak in Uttarkashi district, at about 6,387 m elevation.

Heavy upstream rain forced the Ukai Dam to release nearly 9 lakh cusecs of water in early August 2006, overflowing the Tapi and flooding 80-95% of Surat.

Ukai is Gujarat’s second-largest reservoir after the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada, and supplies both power and water to Surat.

NCERT says the Tapi flows in a trough fault and has no deltaic deposits. The Surat Municipal Corporation says the stretch below the Rander weir is now a tidal zone that fills and drains with each tide. So it ends in an estuary, not a delta.

The Tapi, Narmada, and Mahi are the three major west-flowing rivers of Peninsular India; all others drain into the Bay of Bengal.

The Tapi originates near Multai in Betul district, at about 752 m elevation in the Satpura Range.

Full-country coverage was reached on 9 July 2026, just one day later than the normal date of 8 July — a near-normal pace overall.

The IMD announced on 9 July 2026 that the Southwest Monsoon had covered all of India, one day later than the normal full-coverage date of 8 July.

The December 1992 find in the Tatrot Formation may be the world’s most ancient known early hominid fossil, found in a geologically young mountain range.

The Shiwaliks are famous for rich fossil beds of extinct apes and other primates, including species like Sivapithecus sivalensis.

A dun is a long valley between the Lesser Himalaya and the Shiwaliks. Dehra Dun is the largest dun.

The Shiwalik Hills are the southernmost and youngest range of the Himalayas, running parallel to the main range.

The Wildlife Institute of India and the NTCA brief note describe tropical dry deciduous forest with bamboo and grass below. Of the options, tropical dry deciduous fits best.

The Krishna flows through the reserve for about 270 kilometres, says the reserve’s website. The tiger report of 2022 says 130 kilometres run through the critical habitat.

The Nagarjunasagar-Srisailam Tiger Reserve (NSTR), covering about 3,728 square kilometres, is India’s single largest tiger reserve by area.

The Sardar Sarovar Dam, one of India’s largest dams, is built on the Narmada near the town of Kevadia in Gujarat.

Near Jabalpur, the river carves through white marble cliffs at Bhedaghat, plunging over the Dhuandhar Falls.

The valley formed along the Narmada-Son Lineament, a Precambrian-age rift where the Narmada flows west and the Son flows east.

The Narmada is one of the few major Indian rivers that flows west, into the Arabian Sea, rather than east.

The Narmada Valley is bounded by the Vindhya Range to the north and the Satpura Range to the south.

The Nilgiri tahr population fell from about 3,122 in 2015 to about 2,655 in 2025, mainly due to grassland loss to agriculture, tourism, and invasive species.

Some scholars argue the Ghaggar-Hakra’s course doesn’t fully match the Rigveda’s description, and instead link the Saraswati to the Helmand river in Afghanistan.

Sediment studies suggest the perennial, Himalayan-fed phase ran until around 2500 BCE, when tectonic shifts and weaker monsoons reduced it to a seasonal river.

Satellite imagery has revealed a broad paleochannel beneath the Ghaggar-Hakra basin, showing the buried course of a once-mighty river.

Most Indian archaeologists identify the Saraswati with the now largely dry Ghaggar-Hakra system, running through Haryana and Rajasthan toward the Rann of Kutch.