Indian Geography Questions and Answers

Answer: C

The Tharparkar breed comes from the Jaisalmer region.

The Tharparkar is named after the Tharparkar district of Sindh and is native to the adjoining Thar desert of western Rajasthan, including Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur. It is a hardy dual-purpose breed, valued for milk and as a draught animal in dry conditions.

Bikaner is the home tract of the Rathi breed, while Kota and Banswara lie far from the Thar, so none of them is the breed's origin.

Answer: B

The area that is not a beneficiary is Kota.

The Indira Gandhi Canal carries Sutlej-Beas water from the Harike barrage into north-western Rajasthan. Its command covers districts such as Sriganganagar, Hanumangarh, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Churu, Jodhpur and Barmer, the last reached through the canal's extension and lift schemes.

Kota, in the south-east, is irrigated from the Chambal system through the Kota barrage canals, not by the Indira Gandhi Canal.

Answer: A

The Rajasthan-Pakistan border is 1070 km long.

Rajasthan's international border with Pakistan, part of the Radcliffe Line, runs for about 1,070 km through the districts of Sri Ganganagar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer, with Jaisalmer having the longest stretch.

876 km, 448 km and 1232 km are not the length of this border.

Answer: B

The Hadoti Plateau covers about 9 percent of Rajasthan.

The south-eastern plateau, or Hadoti, comprising Kota, Bundi, Baran and Jhalawar districts, is usually put at about 9.6 percent of the state's area, so 9 percent is the nearest option. It is a region of black and alluvial soils drained by the Chambal and its tributaries.

6 percent understates its extent, while 15.8 and 17 percent are well above any figure given for the Hadoti region.

Answer: C

The river associated with inland drainage is the Sabi.

A river of inland drainage does not reach the sea but ends in the land. The Sabi (Sahibi) rises in the Sewar hills near Jaipur, flows through Alwar into Haryana and is lost in the plains there, so it belongs to the inland drainage system, like the Ghaggar and the Kantli.

The Chambal and Banas belong to the Yamuna-Ganga system and so drain to the Bay of Bengal, and the Mahi flows into the Gulf of Khambhat in the Arabian Sea.

Answer: B

The region without a humid climate is Bikaner.

Bikaner lies in the Thar desert in north-western Rajasthan, with very low rainfall and an arid climate.

Udaipur and Sirohi in the south (Sirohi includes Mount Abu) and Kota in the south-east receive the state's highest rainfall and are classed among its humid and sub-humid climatic regions, so all three are wrong.

Answer: C

The incorrect statement is This soil is found only in North districts of Rajasthan.

Alluvial soil in Rajasthan is found mainly in the eastern plains, in districts such as Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Tonk, Sawai Madhopur and Kota, deposited by the Banas, Chambal and their tributaries, as well as in the Ghaggar plain of the north. It is not confined to the northern districts.

The other statements describe it as the key accepts: it is fertile, light brown to reddish, and well suited to wheat, mustard and cotton.

Answer: D

Bamboo forests in Rajasthan are a sub-type of Tropical Deciduous Forest.

In the classification of Rajasthan's forests, bamboo occurs within the tropical dry deciduous forests of the south and south-east, in districts such as Banswara, Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Baran and Kota, where rainfall is higher.

Tropical thorn forests cover the dry west, sub-tropical mountain forest is confined to the Mount Abu area, and Rajasthan has no tidal (mangrove) forests, since it has no coastline.

Answer: D

The Indira Gandhi Canal is linked with the problem of Soil Salinity.

Heavy canal irrigation in the desert, with poor drainage, has raised the water table in parts of the command area. Water evaporating from the waterlogged surface leaves salts behind, so waterlogging and soil salinity are the canal's main environmental side effects.

The canal does not cause air or noise pollution. It has encouraged settlement in the desert rather than being an environmental issue of human migration.

Answer: D

The incorrect statement is It can absorb and hold the water much.

Desert soil is sandy, with large particles and little clay or humus, so water drains through it quickly and it has very poor water-holding capacity. That is why it needs frequent irrigation.

The other statements are true: the loose sand is shifted by wind into dunes, the soil is often saline because evaporation draws salts up, and it covers western Rajasthan.