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प्रश्न
Answer the following question briefly.
What is meant by a water divide? Give an example.
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उत्तर
Any elevated area, such as a mountain or an upland, which separates two drainage basins is known as water divide; for example, the water divide between the Indus and the Ganga river systems. Ambala is located on this water divide. The Western Ghats form the main water divide in Peninsular India.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Give Reasons:
West flowing rivers do not form deltas.
The largest tributary of the Ganga is ______.
Ganga river reaches plain at ______.
River Ganga is known as the river ______ in Bangladesh.
Name the part of the Himalayas lying between the Kali and Tista rivers.
Name the largest river of the Indian Ocean.
On an outline map of India mark and label the following rivers: Ganga, Satluj, Damodar, Krishna, Narmada, Tapi, Mahanadi, and the Brahmaputra.
Answer the following in detail.
Name the water divide spanning from north to south in India. Which mountain ranges are a part of it ? How does this water divide affect the precipitation in India ?
Give geographical reason.
The peninsular rivers don't face the problem of flood.
Mark the following in the outline map of India. Write the names and given index.
- Lakshadweep Islands
- Coromandel Coast
- Gulf of Khambhat
- Any Major Port
- Thar Desert
- Palk Strait
