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(a) The Cauvery
(b) The Krishna ✔
(c) The Godavari
(d) The Mahanadi
No.-2. With which one of the
following rivers does Chambal river merge?
(a) Banas
(b) Ganga
(c) Narmada
(d) Yamuna ✔
No.-3. Which is the largest
of the peninsular rivers?
(a) Godavari ✔
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Krishna
(d) Cauvery
No.-4. The Baglihar
Hydropower Project, very frequently in the news, is located on which one of the
following rivers?
(a) Beas
(b) Chenab ✔
(c) Ravi
(d) Sutlej
No.-5. The Jog waterfalls are
on the river–
(a) Tunga Bhadra
(b) Sharavathi ✔
(c) Koyna
(d) Netravathi
No.-6. Recently Uttar Pradesh
and Madhya Pradesh Governments signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the
linking of two rivers as a link project. Which are these two rivers?
(a) Betwa and Chambal
(b) Betwa and Ken ✔
(c) Chambal and Son
(d) Ken and Narmada
No.-7. Which of the following
rivers has the largest catchment areas?
(a) Narmada
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Godavari ✔
(d) Krishna
No.-8. Which one of the
following rivers originates at Amarkantak?
(a) Damodar
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Narmada ✔
(d) Tapti
No.-9. Some of the rivers of
peninsular India are non-perennial mainly because :
(a) Rainfall is seasonal ✔
(b) Rainfall is low
(c) Rainfall varies from year
to year
(d) Water is derived to tanks
No.-10. Through which one
among the following groups of states does the river Narmada flow?
(a) Gujarat and Madhya
Pradesh
(b) Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
and Maharashtra ✔
(c) Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh
and Uttar Pradesh
(d) Gujarat, Rajasthan and
Uttar Pradesh
No.-11. The second largest
river basin in India is that of–
(a) Mahanadi
(b) Godavari ✔
(c) Narmada
(d) Krishna
No.-12. The Narmada and Tapti
rivers of peninsular India flow westwards–
(a) Along with old river
courses
(b) Along valleys carved by
erosion
(c) Along through bounded by
faults ✔
(d) Along joints
No.-13. Which one of the
following rivers flows into the Arabian Sea?
(a) Indravati
(b) Godavari
(c) Cauveri
(d) Narmada ✔
No.-14. Which one of the
following states has built the famous Gandhi Sagar across the Chambal river?
(A) Rajasthan
(B) Maharashtra
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Madhya Pradesh ✔
No.-15. Which one of the
following rivers originates in Brahmagiri range of Western Ghats?
(A) Pennar
(B) Cauveri ✔
(C) Krishna
(D) Tapti
No.-16. In the Cauvery river
water dispute, which one of the following groups of states is concerned?
(a) Kerala and Karnataka
(b) Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh
and Maharashtra
(c) Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil
Nadu and Union Territory of Puducherry ✔
(d) Kerala, Goa, Karnataka
and Tamil Nadu
No.-17. Which one of the
following rivers flows between the Vindhya Range and the Satpura Range of
mountains?
(a) Narmada ✔
(b) Tapti
(c) Son
(d) Chambal
No.-18. Tapti rivers are in–
(a) Satpura range ✔
(b) Vindhyachal
range
(c) Western Ghats
(d) the Eastern Ghats
No.-19. Which one is the
correct sequence of the following topographical features found from upper to
lower course of a river?
(a) Ox-bow
lake-Rapids-Estuary
(b) Rapids-Estuary-Ox-bow
lake
(c) Rapids-Ox-bow lake-Estuary
✔
(d) Estuary-Ox-bow
lake-Rapids
No.-20. At which one of the
following places do the rivers Alaknanda and Bhagirathi merge to form Ganga?
(a) Devprayag ✔
(b) Rudraprayag
(c) Karnaprayag
(d) Vishnuprayag
No.-21. Damodar river rises
in–
(a) Chota Nagpur plateau ✔
(b) Naga hills
(c) Satpura range
(d) Himalaya range
No.-22. The reservoir GB Pant
Sagar is located on which river?
(a) Betwa
(b) Ghaghara
(c) Kosi
(d) Rihand ✔
No.-23. River Luni originates
near Pushkar and drains into which one of the following?
(a) Rann of Kachchh
(b) Arabian Sea ✔
(c) Gulf of Cambay
(d) Lake Sambhar
No.-24. Mahanadi river rises
in–
(a) Amarkantak
(b) Satpura
(c) Vindhyachal
(d) Sihava ✔
No.-25. Which of the
following three rivers of Peninsular India have the Amarkantak region as their
source?
(a) Narmada, Krishna,
Godavari
(b) Son, Mahanadi, Narmada ✔
(c) Godavari, Krishna,
Cauveri
(d) Chambal, Betwa, Luni
No.-26. The city of Nasik is
situated on the banks of which one of the following rivers?
(a) Krishna
(b) Mandovi
(c) Godavari ✔
(d) Tapi
No.-27. Which is the largest
river in south India?
(a) Cauvery
(b) Krishna
(c) Godavari ✔
(d) Tapti
No.-28. Which one of the
following places is not located on the banks of river Ganga?
(a) Uttarkashi
(b) Kanpur
(c) Fatehpur ✔
(d) Bhagalpur
No.-29. The river Godavari
rises in the–
(a) Vindhyas
(b) Satpura range ✔
(c) Sahyadri
(d) Naga hills
No.-30. Deltas are common in
India for the East-flowing river systems, whereas they are nearly absent on the
West Coast, because of West-flowing rivers :
(a) are few
(b) have lesser water volume
and carry less run-off silt ✔
(c) originate in dry areas
(d) originate largely in the
Western Ghats and have a short distance to cover the sea
No.-31. Which is the correct
arrangement of the following rivers from North to South?
(a) Godavari, Pennar,
Cauveri, Periyar
(b) Pennar, Godavari,
Periyar, Cauveri
(c) Godavari, Cauveri,
Pennar, Periyar ✔
(d) Cauveri, Godavari,
Periyar, Pennar
No.-32. River Indus
originates from–
(a) Hindukush range
(b) Himalayan range
(c) Karakoram range
(d) Kailash range ✔
No.-33. Which among the
following is the correct sequence of rivers starting from North to South?
(a) Bhima – Godavari –
Penganga – Tungabhadra
(b) Godavari – Penganga –
Bhima – Tungabhadra
(c) Penganga – Godavari –
Bhima – Tungabhadra ✔
(d) Penganga – Bhima –
Godavari – Tungabhadra
No.-34. Which one among the
following rivers does not flow into the Bay of Bengal?
(a) Mahanadi
(b) Cauveri
(c) Tapti ✔
(d) Godavari
No.-35. The river with
highest tidal bore in India is :
(a) Cauvery
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Hoogli ✔
(d) Krishna
No.-36. Which one of the
following river flows between Vindhya and Satpura ranges?
(a) Narmada ✔
(b) Son
(c) Mahe
(d) Netravati
No.-37. Amravati, Bhavani,
Hemavati and Kabini are tributaries of which one of the following rivers?
(a) Mahanadi
(b) Godavari
(c) Cauveri ✔
(d) Krishna
No.-38. Who is the largest
river in India?
(a) Ganga ✔
(b) Brahmaputra
(c) Yamuna
(d) Godavari
No.-39. Which among the
following statements provides the best evidence that a river is flowing through
a rift valley?
(a) The Chambal Valley is
marked by bad land topography
(b) River Tapi does not have
delta but estuary ✔
(c) River Mahanadi flows
through a gorge at Satkosia
(d) River Colorado has the
Grand Canyon along its valley
No.-40. Shimsha, Hemavati,
Arkavati are the tributaries of which one of the following rivers?
(a) Tapti
(b) Tungabhadra
(c) Cauveri ✔
(d) Krishna
No.-41. which one of the
rivers forms an estuary in India?
(a) Narmada ✔
(b) Cauvery
(c) Krishna
(d) Mahanadi
No.-42. Chambal river is a
part of :
(a) Sabarmati basin
(b) Ganga basin
(c) Narmada basin ✔
(d) Godavari basin
No.-43. The river with
highest tidal bore in India is–
(a) Cauveri
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Hoogli ✔
(d) Krishna
No.-44. An important river of
the Indian desert is–
(a) Luni ✔
(b) Narmada
(c) Krishna
(d) Beas
No.-45. What is the correct
sequence of the rivers Godavari, Mahanadi, Narmada and Tapi in the descending
order of their lengths?
(ass) Godavari – Mahanadi –
Narmada – Tapi
(b) Godavari – Narmada –
Mahanadi – Tapi ✔
(c) Narmada – Godavari – Tapi
– Mahanadi
(d) Narmada – Tapi – Godavari
– Mahanadi
No.-46. The Nagarjunasagar
dam is constructed on the river–
(a) Krishna ✔
(b) Chambal
(c) Kosi
(d) Sutlej
No.-47. Which one of the
following East flowing rivers of India has rift valley due to down warping?
(a) Damodar ✔
(b) Mahanadi
(c) Son
(d) Yamuna
No.-48. The river also known
as Tsangpo is Tibet is–
(a) Ganga
(b) Brahmaputra ✔
(c) Indu
(d) Teesta
No.-49. On which one of the
following rivers is located Indo-Pak Bagalihar Project?
(a) Sutlej
(b) Jhelum
(c) Beas
(d) Chenab ✔
No.-50. The Alamatti is on
the river–
(a) Godavari
(b) Cauveri
(c) Krishna ✔
(d) Mahanadi
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