Indian Geography Quiz 3

Shipki La is a mountain pass is located in Kinnaur district in the state of Himachal Pradesh, India and Ngari Prefecture in Tibet, China.

Chennai is the oldest artificial harbour on the East Coast of India. Chennai Port, formerly known as Madras Port, is the second-largest container port of India, behind Mumbai's Nhava Sheva.

The northern plains have intense deposits of alluvial soil. It is the result of deposition of sediments by the process of aggradation.

Nallamala Range, range of parallel hills and valleys of the Eastern Ghats in eastern Andhra Pradesh. Located south of the Krishna River, the hills run north to south, parallel to the Coromandel Coast on the Bay of Bengal.

The Indus is the western most River system in the subcontinent. Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Satluj are its main tributaries of Indus. It originates from the Bokhar Chu (glacier) of Mt. Kailash (6714m). It drains the largest number of glaciers and mountain slopes of the Karakorum, Ladakh, Zaskarand Himalayan Ranges.

Comets is an object in space that looks like a bright star with a tail and that revolves around the sun.

The Eden Canal was built in 1904 from Kanchannagar to Jamalpur and was linked to the Damodar canals. It provides irrigation to 10,000 hectares of land in Barddhaman district of West Bengal.

The three major rainforests in India lie mainly in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Western Ghats and the Northeast Himalayas. However, some smaller ones can even be found in remote locations like Odisha, Naga Hills Manipur, etc.

The Narmada, Periyar and Tapti are the only long rivers, which flow west and make estuaries.

The monsoon is caused by differing temperature trends over the land and ocean. In India, the southwest summer monsoon is attracted by a low-pressure area that's caused by the extreme heat of the Thar Desert in Rajasthan and adjoining areas during summer. During the monsoon, the wind direction reverses. The South West monsoon engulfs the entire India by 15th July.