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Rivers - class-VIII

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_______ is a place where river meets sea.

  1. Shore

  2. Connect

  3. Lake

  4. Estuary


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

An estuary is the area where a river meets the sea or ocean, where fresh water from the river meets salt water from the sea.

Young rivers usually form ______________.

  1. U-shaped valley

  2. V-shaped valley

  3. flood plains

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B

The soil in the delta regions are _______________.

  1. Black soil

  2. Red soil

  3. Alluvial soil

  4. Mountain soil


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The soil in the delta regions are Alluvial soil.

Largest delta in India is _______.

  1. Godavari delta

  2. Indus delta

  3. Sunderban delta

  4. Kaveri delta


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Largest delta in India is Sunderban delta.

Which of the following landforms is formed in the upper course of the river?

  1. Estuary

  2. Delta

  3. Alluvial fans

  4. Waterfalls


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

In the upper course of a river gradients are steep and river channels are narrow. Vertical erosion is greatest in the upper course of a river. As the result of this typical features include steep valley sides, interlocking spurs, rapids, gorges and waterfalls.

Which of the following is the largest delta in India?

  1. Delta of Gang-Brahmaputra River

  2. Delta of Mahanadi

  3. Delta of Indus River

  4. Delta of Godavari River


Correct Option: A

Afforestation in the catchment area of rivers helps in _______________.

  1. Making more water available for irrigation

  2. It increases rainfall

  3. It helps in the conservation of water and soil

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

The larger the volume of water, the greater is the power of ___________.

  1. Erosion

  2. Transportation

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Name the place where Blue and White Nile Rivers effect a confluence.

  1. Cairo

  2. Constantinople (except Greenland)

  3. Khartoum

  4. Teheran


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

C. Khartoum

Khartoum State is one of the eighteen states of Sudan. The city is located in the heart of Sudan at the confluence of the White Nile and the Blue Nile, where the two rivers unite to form the River Nile. The confluence of the two rivers creates a unique effect. As they join, each river retains its own color which is the White Nile with its bright whiteness and the Blue Nile with its alluvial brown color. These colors are more visible in the flood season.

The erosion of soil by river mainly depends upon its ________________.

  1. width

  2. length

  3. speed with which it flows

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

Kaveri is the source for an extensive irrigation system but is not used for hydroelectric power.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

What do you understand by the term 'Doab'?

  1. Where the delta of river begins

  2. Where two or more rivers meet

  3. Land between two separate river systems

  4. Land between two tributaries of a river


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Land between two tributaries of a river means 'Doab'. The place where two small streams join together and results in the formation of a big river is called a DOAB. The small streams might be the tributaries of a river also.


Doab. Doab is a term used in South Asia for the "tongue," or tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers. McGregor defines it as "(Persian do-āb: a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers.

What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes?

  1. Computer virus

  2. Worm

  3. Denial-of-service attack

  4. None of the above


Correct Option: C

From which river would the National River Project be started?

  1. Yamuna

  2. Gomati

  3. Ganga

  4. Krishna


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The National River Linking Project (NRLP) is designed to ease water shortages in western and southern India while mitigating the impacts of recurrent floods in the eastern part of the Ganga basin. 

The intensive erosion activity is performed by the river in _____course.

  1. Lower

  2. Middle

  3. Upper

  4. Coast

  5. None of these


Correct Option: C

The group of depositional features formed by the Himalayan rivers is _______.

  1. Dunes, corrosion, U-shaped valley.

  2. Bars, Lagoons, Atolls.

  3. Gorge, V-shaped valley, Cliff.

  4. Meanders, ox-bow lake and Delta


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The group of depositional features formed by the Himalayan rivers is Meanders, ox-bow lake and Delta.

River system having the largest drainage system in the world is _______.

  1. Mississipi in America.

  2. Nile river in Egypt.

  3. Amazon river

  4. Yellow river in China.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

River system having the largest drainage system in the world is Amazon river

Factors affecting work of river are ____________.

  1. Velocity of water

  2. Volume of water

  3. Load

  4. All of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Factors affecting work of river are Velocity of water, Volume of water and Load.
The flow velocity, or speed of flow, can influence the shape and rate of erosion of a river system. The cross-sectional shape of a river dictates how much friction will impact the flow of water within a river. Finally, the sediment load, or the amount of rocks and soil in the river, impacts its flow velocity and shape.

A river enters the sea or disappears before joining the sea is called its _________.

  1. mouth

  2. source

  3. course

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The last past of the river when it reaches the end of its journey, it is called an old river or the old stage. The end of the river is called the mouth. At the mouth, there is often a river delta, a large, silty area where the river splits into many different slow-flowing channels that have muddy banks. At this stage deposition is the only work of the river.

Erosion, transportation and deposition are factors of _________.

  1. River

  2. Soil

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Erosion is the action of surface processes that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it away to another location. The particulate breakdown of rock or soil into clastic sediment is referred to as physical or mechanical erosion; this contrasts with chemical erosion, where soil or rock material is removed from an area by its dissolving into a solvent, followed by the flow away of that solution. Eroded sediment or solutes may be transported just a few millimeters, or for thousands of kilometers.

Natural rates of erosion are controlled by the action of geomorphic drivers, such as rainfall or bedrock wear in rivers or coastal erosion by the sea and waves or glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes; and mass movement processes in steep landscapes like landslides and debris flows.

Erosion and transportation are both maximum when ________ is high.

  1. Velocity

  2. Volume

  3. Density

  4. Temperature


Correct Option: A

The place of origin of a river is called ____________

  1. source.

  2. mouth.

  3. both a and b

  4. none of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The place of origin of a river is called Source of the river. The beginning of a river, when it flows quickly with lots of energy, is called the young stage or the source. This age is also called as upper age. The river here is smaller and usually has a rapid, tumbling flow that cuts a narrow channel through rocky hills or mountains.

Farakka issue was related to _________________.

  1. Boundary problem

  2. Infiltration ofBangladeshi people

  3. Smuggling of Narcolic drug

  4. Distribution of river water


Correct Option: D

A river depends on the degree of _________.

  1. Inclination

  2. Gradient of its course

  3. Both A and B

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C

A narrow valley that has a profile of the English alphabet 'V' is ____________.

  1. V-shaped valleys

  2. U-shaped valleys

  3. hanging valley

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The V-shaped valley is formed in the youthful stage of the fluvial cycle of erosion and in the initial stage of valley development. It is deep and steep-sided river valley, both the valley sides meet together at the valley floor and thus water always touches the valley sides. The V-shaped valley is the result of the accelerated rate of downcutting.

_______ is a term used in India for a tract of land lying between two confluent rivers. 

  1. Satvik

  2. Convergence

  3. Doab

  4. Dimtar


Correct Option: C

Which river is known as Jamuna in Bangladesh?

  1. Ganga

  2. Brahmaputra

  3. Meghna

  4. Teesta


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Brahmaputra river is known as Jamua in Bangladesh.

The Jamuna River is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh. It is the lower stream of the Brahmaputra River, which originates in Tibet as Yarlung Tsangpo, before flowing into India and then southwest into Bangladesh.

Sundarban delta is in which river basin?

  1. Godavari basin

  2. Krishna Basin

  3. Narmada Basin

  4. Ganga-Brahmaputra basin


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Ganga-Brahmaputra basin,
The Sundarban forest lies in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal formed by the super confluence of the Ganges, Hooghly, Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers across southern Bangladesh. The seasonally flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests on the coastal fringe.

What is the name of the Brahmaputra river in Tibet?

  1. Tsangpo

  2. Dihang

  3. Jamuna

  4. Huwang ho


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Brahmaputra River, also called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibetan language. The river originates on the Angsi Glacier located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet.

The Ganga and Brahmaputra basin has _____________.

  1. plains

  2. plains and mountains

  3. plains and plateaus

  4. plateaus


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Ganga and Brahmaputra basin has plans and mountains.
The basin comprises semi-arid valleys in the rain shadow north of the Himalaya, densely forested mountains south of the highest ranges, the scrubby Shiwalik foothills and the fertile Gangetic Plains.

Which feature is seen in the plain areas of Ganga-Brahmaputra basin?

  1. Pot holes

  2. Ox-bow lakes

  3. Waterfalls

  4. Sand bars


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Ox-bow lakes are seen in the plains of Ganga- Brahmaputra basin.

The main features of this river basin are:
A fertile belt that includes most of north and east India
Rich source of alluvial soil
Number of ox-bow lakes over the plains
Bounded on the north by the mountains and foothills of the Himalayas
On east, lies the famed Sundarbans delta

What type of climate prevails in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin?

  1. Temperate climate

  2. Tropical climate

  3. Monsoon climate

  4. Equatorial climate


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The Ganga-Brahmaputra river basin region experiences a monsoon type of climate. As is the case for a monsoon climate area, the summers are hot and the winters cool. The Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is the largest river basin in the country.

Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is situated between _________ latitudes.

  1. $20^0N-35^0S$

  2. $10^0N-30^0S$

  3. $10^0S-30^0N$

  4. $10^0N-5^0S$


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The Ganga Brahmaputra basin is situated at $10^0N$ to $30^0N$ in the sub-tropical region. The basin is formed as a result of the many tributaries from Ganga and Brahmaputra river. Some of the tributaries of Ganga or the Ganges joining the basin are the Ghaghra, the Son, the Gandhak, the Chambal, and the Kosi. The tributaries of the Brahmaputra joining the basin are Teesta and Meghna.

State whether these sentences are true (T) or False (F).
The rivers Narmada and Brahmaputra flowed through Magadha.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

False.

State whether the sentences is true(T) or false(F).
The Magadha Kingdom was set up near the Ganga river.

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The earliest reference to the Magadha people occurs in the Atharvaveda, where they are found listed along with the Angas, Gandharis and Mujavats. The core of the kingdom was the area of Bihar south of the Ganges.its first capital was Rajagriha (modern day Rajgir), then Pataliputra (modern Patna).

Which of the following is true with regard to the, characteristics of the Himalayan rivers?
$1$. Many of them have their sources in the Inner Himalayas
$2$. They have a perennial flow
$3$. They have a great capacity for erosion
$4$. They do not form gorges.

  1. I and II

  2. I, IV and III

  3. III and IV

  4. II and IV


Correct Option: B

What type of soil is available in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin?

  1. Red soil

  2. Black soil

  3. Alluvial soil

  4. Laterite soil


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Ganga-Brahmaputra is a river basin. As a result, it gets flooded every now and then. Therefore the bulk of the soil present in the basin region will be alluvial soil.

Choose the correct option to complete the statements given below:
Brahmagiri archeological site is in modern _______.

  1. Karnataka

  2. Kerala

  3. Uttar Pradesh

  4. Bihar


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Brahmagiri archaeological site is located in the Chitradurga district in the state of Karnataka.

In the first century B.C., Sringaverapura near Allahabad had a sophisticated water harvesting system channelling the flood water of the river _______.

  1. Gandak

  2. Kosi

  3. Satluj

  4. Ganga

  5. None of these


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

At Sringaverapura near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, India, there exists an extraordinary example of hydraulic engineering dating back to the end of the 1st century BC. It comprises three percolation-cum-storage tanks, fed by an 11 m wide and 5 m deep canal that used to skim the floodwaters off the monsoon-swollen Ganga.

Choose the correct option to complete the statements given below:
The Ghod is a tributary of the ________.

  1. Ganga

  2. Narmada

  3. Krishna

  4. Bhima


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Ghod River is located in Pune District, Maharashtra, western India. It is a tributary of the Bhima River. The Ghod originates on the eastern slopes of the Western.

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