Great Indian Desert Quiz 5 (20 MCQs)

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1. Areas in a desert where water is found and agriculture is carried out are called .....

Correct Answer: B) Oases.

2. What is the most prominent feature of the Indian desert?

Correct Answer: D) Barchan.

3. What is an important salt water lake in the Great Indian Desert.

Correct Answer: B) Sambha Lake.

4. Which is the only largest river in this desert?

Correct Answer: C) Luni river.

5. Villages in the desert come up .....

Correct Answer: B) Where there is water.

6. What has a property of losing and gaining heat quickly?

Correct Answer: C) Sand.

7. Identify a famous festival of Rajasthan.

Correct Answer: A) Teej.

8. Which hills do not allow moisture laden winds to enter the Thar Desert?

Correct Answer: D) Aravalli Hills.

9. WHICH OF THE FOLLOING IS TRUE THAR DESERT?

Correct Answer: C) Most of it lies in India.

10. Approximately how many mammals are found in the Thar desert?

Correct Answer: C) Over 40.

11. What Is Luni?

Correct Answer: A) The luni is the largest river in the Thar Desert of northwest India.

12. People who lead a nomadic life in desert are called .....

Correct Answer: C) Banjaras.

13. Which of the follwing is not a crop of Rajasthan state?

Correct Answer: B) Rice.

14. This is an unproductive land.

Correct Answer: B) Desert.

15. The only seasonal river that crosses the sandy desert is .....

Correct Answer: A) Luni.

16. A)what is the the amount of rainfall? (in normal)b)what type of climate does Thar desert have?

Correct Answer: A) 100-150mmb)arid and dry.

17. National park of Rajasthan is .....

Correct Answer: C) Bharatpur National Park.

18. The northern part of the western coastal plain is called

Correct Answer: A) Konkan coast.

19. Indian Desert lies in the ..... Aravali Range

Correct Answer: C) Eastern Margins.

20. What does a camel store inside its hump?

Correct Answer: B) Water.