Indian Geography Quiz 2

Gujarat state has the longest Coastline (1,600 km) in India, lies on the Kathiawar region and bounded by the Arabian Sea. Andhra Pradesh has the second-longest coastline in India after Gujarat with a length of 974 km, along with Coromandel Coast. Coastline of Tamil Nadu is part of Coromandel Coast and is the third-longest coastline (940 Km) in the country.

Loktak Lake is the largest freshwater lake in India as well as the largest lake in North East India. It is famous for the phumdis floating over it. The lake is located at Moirang in Manipur.

The Ranjit Sagar Dam (Thein Dam) is part of a hydroelectric project constructed by the Government of Punjab Punjab Irrigation Department on the Ravi River on the Border of two states of India Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab.

A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift. There are three rivers in India which flow through a rift valley. These rivers are Damodar, Tapti and Narmada.

The Tehri Dam is the tallest dam in India. It is a multi-purpose rock and earth-fill embankment dam on the Bhagirathi River near Tehri in Uttarakhand, India.

The river Godavari is often referred to as Vridha Ganga because of its large size and extent among the peninsular rivers.

Cyclones form due to very low air pressure above the warm tropical waters of an ocean. The Bay of Bengal is prone to cyclones because a lot of typhoons that originate in the southwestern Pacific ocean get carried northwest towards India (Andhra Pradesh and Orissa).

Most of the major rivers of the peninsula such as the Mahanadi, the Godavari, the Krishna and the Cauvery (Kaveri) flow eastwards and drain into the Bay of Bengal. West flowing rivers such as the Narmada, the Tapi drained into the Arabian Sea. Flowing into the Arabian Sea: Narmada, Tapi, Sindhu, Sabarmati, Mahi, Purna. Flowing into the Bay of Bengal: Brahmaputra, Yamuna, Ganga (with its main tributaries), Meghna, Mahanadi, Godavari, Krishna (and their main tributaries), Cauvery.

Diu Island is an island off the Southern coast of Gujarat's Kathiawar peninsula, separated from the mainland by a tidal creek.