Indian Rivers, Lakes And Water MCQ Question and Answer | Geography MCQ Question

Godavari is sometimes referred to as "Dakshin Ganga".

Narmada river after originating from Amarkantak Plateau flows through a rift valley bounded by Vindhyas in North and Satpura in south.

Tapti is a west flowing river. It flows through a rift valley of Igneous rocks so it is not able to collect much sediments and hence it forms an Estuary instead of a Delta.

The Hirakud Project harnesses the water of the Mahanadi river. The multi-purpose Hirakud Dam constructed across the river Mahanadi. The aim of this project was to control flood, supply water for irrigation purpose and hydropower power generation. The construction of dam was started as in 1940's. The first notification for the land acquisition was issued on 13 September 1946.

Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers build a common delta. Ganges Delta also known as Sunderbans Delta or Ganges Brahmaputra Delta in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. This Green Delta is largest delta in the world and empties into the Bay of Bengal with combined Brahmaputra and the Ganges river.

River basins are defined by the total area drained by a river and its tributaries.

In the Southern Peninsula of India, the Godavari River has the largest river basin, with an area of about 312,812 square kilometers.

The Krishna River has the second largest river basin in the Southern Peninsula, covering approximately 258,948 square kilometers.

Cauvery has a smaller basin, around 81,155 square kilometers.

Mahanadi, although significant, lies partly in central-eastern India and has a basin area of about 141,589 square kilometers, which is smaller than that of Krishna.

Therefore, the river in the Southern Peninsula with the second largest river basin is the Krishna River, making Option B the correct answer.

The following are the features of the Himalayan rivers are They are of youthful nature, forming deep gorges and performing intense erosional activity, They are free to form their courses and follow a dendritic pattern and They have very large basins.

Amarkantak, Mandla, Jabalpur and Bharuch are four places situated on the banks of the Narmada from the source of the river to its mouth.

Godavari - Narmada - Mahanadi - Tapi is the correct sequence of the rivers in the descending order of their lengths.

Mahanadi is an east flowing river of the Peninsula. Major peninsular rivers flow from west to east due to the gradient of land but narmada and tapi flows in the opposite direction because they do not flow on the plateau surface but in rift valleys and these valleys happen to have an opposite gradient.