This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Physical > Physical Features Of India – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Physical Features Of India Quiz 5 (57 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Name the Himalayas which lie between Satluj and Kali river A) Nepal Himalaya. B) Assam Himalaya. C) Punjab Himalaya. D) Kumaon Himalaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kumaon Himalaya. 2. What is Shiwalik range composed of A) Alluvial soil. B) Unconsolidated sediments. C) Alluminium. D) Sand dunes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconsolidated sediments. 3. What is the wet, swampy and marshy land called? A) Bhanger. B) Bhabhar. C) Terai. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Terai. 4. Black soil area is known as? A) Deccan trap. B) Deccan plateau. C) Northern trap. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deccan trap. 5. The western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats meet at the ..... hills. A) Nilgiri. B) Rajmahal. C) Jaintia. D) Mahadeo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nilgiri. 6. The soil containing calcareous deposits is locally known as A) Bhabar. B) Kankar. C) Khadar. D) Bhangar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kankar. 7. Which of the following physiographic divisions of India is considered to be an unstable zone? A) The Himalayan Mountains. B) The Peninsular Plateaus. C) The Indian Desert. D) The Islands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Himalayan Mountains. 8. Which of the following plateau is situated between the aravali and the Vindhya ranges? A) Bundelkhand. B) Bhagelhand. C) Malwa plateau. D) Deccan plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malwa plateau. 9. Thar desert covers the major parts of ..... A) Rajasthan. B) Kashmir. C) Punjab. D) Gujarat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rajasthan. 10. Which of the following rivers has the largest inhabited riverine island in the world? A) Narmada. B) Brahmaputra. C) Ganga. D) Yamuna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brahmaputra. 11. India has a land boundary of total ..... A) 7000 KM. B) 3.2 MILLION. C) 15200 KM. D) 7516.6 KM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15200 KM. 12. How many physiographic division are there in india A) 6. B) 8. C) 9. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 13. Plains on good for ..... A) Insects. B) Crops. C) Animals. D) Reptiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crops. 14. The Plain is about ..... Km long A) 5000. B) 2300. C) 62900. D) 2400. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2400. 15. A large areas where vegetation, wildlife and environment are conserved to preserve the biological diversity A) Wildlife sanctuary. B) Biosphere Reserve. C) National Park. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere Reserve. 16. The highest peak in the Eastern Ghats is A) Mahendragiri. B) Doda Betta. C) Ooty. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mahendragiri. 17. From the view point of geology, ..... form an unstable zone. A) Northern Plains. B) Himalayas. C) Coastal Plains. D) Peninsular Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Himalayas. 18. The arc made by himalayas covers how much distance? A) 2400 km. B) 1200 km. C) 2300 km. D) 2400 metre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2400 km. 19. THE INDIAN DESERT RECEIVES ..... A) 100mm. B) 200mm. C) 180mm. D) 150mm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150mm. 20. What are the 3 major climate zones in order from equator to the poles? A) Polar, temperate, tropical. B) Tropical, temperate, polar. C) Temperate, polar, tropical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tropical, temperate, polar. 21. According to the 'Theory of Plate Tectonics, ' what have been the effects of the movement of the plates? A) Change in position and size of continents. B) Formation of ocean basins. C) Evolution of the present land forms and relief of India. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 22. Which plateau is drained by the river damodar? A) Vindhya. B) Chotanagpur. C) Deccan. D) Malwa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chotanagpur. 23. The peninsular plateau is composed of ..... rocks A) Igneous. B) Metamorphic. C) Both a and b. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both a and b. 24. Which one of the following not the feature of Andaman and nicobar island A) Great diversity of flora and fauna. B) Equatorial climate. C) Coral reef. D) Thick forest cover. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coral reef. 25. Deccan Plateau lies to the South of the River A) Mahanadi. B) Narmada. C) Chambal. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narmada. 26. By which river the northernmost boundary of the Himalayas is formed? A) The Indus. B) The Brahmaputra. C) The Tista. D) The Ganga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Brahmaputra. 27. The five famous tributaries of Indus draining Punjab plains are Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and A) Sutlej and Beas. B) Son and Sutlej. C) Sutlej and Nubra. D) Zanskar and Beas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sutlej and Beas. 28. The two edges of the Peninsular Plateau are known as ..... A) Eastern Coastal Plains and Western Coastal Plains. B) Eastern Ghats and Mahendragiri. C) Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats. D) Western Ghats and Anaimudi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats. 29. In which state Garo, Khasi and Jaintia hills are located? A) Manipur. B) Meghalaya. C) Assam. D) Tripura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meghalaya. 30. Which is the northernmost range of the Himalayas? A) Shiwalik. B) Himachal. C) Hamadri. D) Purvanchal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamadri. 31. Which island has a bird sanctuary? A) Kavaratti. B) Maldives. C) Pitti. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pitti. 32. Capital of Tamilnadu is A) Mumbai. B) Patna. C) Kolkata. D) Chennai. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chennai. 33. The peninsular plateau is composed of? A) Igneous rocks. B) Sedimentary rocks. C) Metamorphic rocks. D) Igneous and metamorphic rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Igneous and metamorphic rocks. 34. In which river is Majuli island situated? A) Indus. B) Ganga. C) Brahmaputra. D) Krishna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brahmaputra. 35. What is the largest peak in India? A) The Himalayas. B) The Kanchenjunga. C) Mt. Everest. D) Mt. Kilimanjaro. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Kanchenjunga. 36. Himalayan Mountain Ranges run in ..... direction from Indus A) South West. B) South East. C) West East. D) North East. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West East. 37. Name the mountain range that separates China from India A) The Himalayas. B) The Rocky Mountains. C) The Ganges River. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Himalayas. 38. The northern plains are divided into ..... sections. A) 2. B) 3. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 39. Which is the river flowing in Deccan plateau? A) Godavari. B) Ganga. C) Brahmaputra. D) Yamuna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Godavari. 40. Which of the following coastal plains lie south of Goa A) Northern Circar. B) Malabar. C) Kannad. D) Konkan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kannad. 41. Which of the following is the administrative headquarters of lakshadweep A) Andaman and nicobar island. B) Malabar coast. C) Pitti island. D) Kavaratti island. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kavaratti island. 42. Which river flows through the Indian desert? A) Luni. B) Kaveri. C) Mahanadi. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Luni. 43. Peninsular Plateau consists of ..... A) Old crystalline rock. B) Old crystalline, igneous rock. C) Old crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks. D) Old crystalline, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks. 44. The Himalayan Mountain Ranges run in a ..... direction from the Indus to Brahmaputra. A) South-East. B) North-West. C) West-East. D) North-South. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) West-East. 45. The Northern Plain is formed of ..... A) Sand. B) Alluvial Soil. C) Snow. D) Black Lava Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alluvial Soil. 46. The Northern Plains spread over an area of ..... lakh sq.cm A) 7. B) 5. C) 3. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 47. The plain is about ..... km to ..... km broad A) 100, 200. B) 500, 600. C) 300, 400. D) 240, 320. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 240, 320. 48. Which of the following is not a Tributaries of River Indus A) Ravi. B) Jhelum. C) Satluj. D) Chambal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chambal. 49. What are the features of the Western coastal plains? What is the Third sentence in the audio? A) The western coast is sandwiched between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea. B) It is a narrow plain. C) It consists of three sections. D) The northern part of the coast is called the Konkan (Mumbai-Goa), the central stretch is called the Kannad Plain while the southern stretch is referred to as the Malabar coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It consists of three sections. 50. Consider the following statements. Identify the right ones.I. Western Ghats act as a perfect water divide.II. Western Ghats are comparatively higher in elevation and more continuous than the Eastern Ghats. A) I only. B) II only. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 51. Peninsular Plateau rivers have formed the following features ..... A) Estuaries by the East Flowing Rivers and Deltas by West Flowing Rivers. B) Estuaries by Narmada and Tapi and Deltas by Mahanadi and Kaveri. C) Estuaries only. D) Deltas only. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Estuaries by Narmada and Tapi and Deltas by Mahanadi and Kaveri. 52. The Palk Strait connects which two countries? A) North America, South AMerica. B) India, Sri Lanka. C) India, Malasia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India, Sri Lanka. 53. FILL IN BLANKSThe Great Northern Plains can be divided into ..... (a) ..... in centre, Punjab Plains in ..... (b) ..... and ..... (c) ..... in east A) -Brahmaputra Valley, (b)-West, (c)-Ganga Plains. B) -Ganga Plains, (b)-West, (c)-Brahmaputra Valley. C) -Brahmaputra Valley, (b)-Ganga Plains, (c)-West. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -Ganga Plains, (b)-West, (c)-Brahmaputra Valley. 54. The northern part of the western coast is called the A) Konkan. B) Kannad plain. C) Malabar coast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kannad plain. 55. Which soil can be found in khader belt? A) Newer alluvial soil. B) Old alluvial soil. C) Kanker. D) Pebbles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newer alluvial soil. 56. What is the width of Himalayas in Arunachal Pradesh? A) 100KM. B) 300KM. C) 250KM. D) 150KM. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150KM. 57. A part of Himalayas lying between ..... & ..... Rivers are known as Punjab Himalaya A) Teesta & Dihang. B) Kali & Teesta. C) Indus & Satluj. D) Satluj & Kali. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indus & Satluj. ← PreviousRelated QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesPhysical Features Of India Quiz 1Physical Features Of India Quiz 2Physical Features Of India Quiz 3Physical Features Of India Quiz 4Evolution Of India S Geological Structure QuizLocation And Structure Of India QuizPhysical Geography QuizPhysiographic Division Of India Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books