Indian Geography Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 5)

Brain drain means a region loses its skilled and educated people to other places. It is a loss for the place of origin. It is not the same as a general fall in population.

The EAC-PM paper notes that working-age males are more likely to migrate than other groups. Census 2011 counts 3.77 crore men and 0.73 crore women who moved for economic reasons. Migration is therefore not random across ages.

A remittance is money a migrant sends back to the family at home. The EAC-PM paper says labour remittances are a significant part of rural household income. The other options are not remittances.

Falling death rates combined with still-high birth rates is exactly the mechanism of Stage 2 (Early Expanding) in the demographic transition model, and India’s 1921 turning point is a dated real-world example of it.

India’s population is still increasing every year, but the pace has changed: each decade since 1981 has added a smaller percentage increase than the decade before it.

After 1921 death rates began to fall. Better sanitation, food transport and disease control did this.

Birth rates stayed high, so the gap pushed the population up.

After independence (1951-1981), death rates fell sharply thanks to better medicine, sanitation and food security, while birth rates stayed high for much longer, producing the fastest population growth in India’s history.

The 1901-1921 phase saw very little population growth, and even decline in some decades, due to frequent famines and epidemics, especially the 1918 influenza pandemic.

The answer is Ganga, which originates from the Gangotri glacier within the Himalayan range itself, unlike the Indus, Satluj, and Brahmaputra, which are antecedent rivers originating in Tibet, north of the main range.

The answer is 1, 2 and 3. Indian monsoon rainfall is shaped by topography, varies by region and season, and often comes as heavy downpours with high runoff — but its onset and withdrawal are notoriously irregular, not regular and on time.

The answer is Indravati, which is actually a tributary of the Godavari, not the Cauvery.

Penganga is not a Ganga tributary. It flows into the Wardha River, which joins the Wainganga to form the Pranhita, a major tributary of the Godavari. The other three pairs are correctly matched: Indravati feeds the Godavari, Bhima feeds the Krishna, and Sukri feeds the Luni. This is why Ganga and Penganga is the incorrect pairing.

The answer is A-3, B-4, C-1, D-2. Maithon is on the Barakar river, Salal on the Chenab, Rana Pratap Sagar on the Chambal, and Tehri on the Bhagirathi.

The answer is Sabarmati, whose basin is the smallest and shortest among these major Indian river systems.

The answer is Domestic workers. The Census actually uses Cultivators, Agricultural Labourers, Household Industrial Workers, and Other Workers as its four categories.

The answer is subtracting the death rate from the birth rate, giving the natural rate of population increase or decrease.

The answer is 1872, India’s first (non-synchronous) census attempt, with the first fully synchronous census following in 1881.

The answer is A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1. Bhabar consists of coarse gravels, Bhangar is old alluvium rich in kankar nodules, Khadar is fresh silty alluvium, and deltas are associated with marshy terrain.

The answer is Agartala. The Agartala-Akhaura rail link connects Tripura’s capital to Bangladesh under the Act East Policy.

The answer is 1 and 2 only. India’s first census attempt was in 1872, with regular decennial censuses since 1881; the census has always been a ten-year, not five-year, exercise.

The answer is Teesta. It actually flows into the Brahmaputra system (via the Jamuna in Bangladesh), not into the Ganga.

The correct answer is A-4, B-2, C-1, D-3. Sikkim’s real borders: Nepal lies to the west, China (Tibet) to the north, Bhutan to the southeast, and West Bengal to the south.

The answer is 2 and 3 only. Wheat needs a frost-free growing period of about 100 days and loamy soils, but its optimum growing temperature is actually much cooler, around 10-15°C, with warmer conditions only preferred at ripening.

The correct answer is A-3 B-4 C-1 D-2, based on each State’s real position: Tripura sits furthest west, Mizoram furthest south, Nagaland in the north-east corner, and Manipur to its south, matching the map’s marked locations.

The correct answer is A-3 B-2 C-1 D-4. Satpura stretches across Maharashtra/Madhya Pradesh; Vindhya runs across Madhya Pradesh to the Ganga valley; Aravalli runs through Rajasthan; Mahadeo sits in the northern part of the Satpura range, in southern Madhya Pradesh.