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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:
North Indian Rivers are perennial.
Give a detailed account on the basin of the Ganga.
The largest tributary of the Ganga is ______.
India is connected with Europe through ______.
Name the part of the Himalayas lying between the Kali and Tista rivers.
Name the major west-flowing rivers in the peninsular plateau.
The deltaic region of lower Ganga, the uplands are known as ______.
The rivers passed their ways by eroding their ______ when Himalayas lifted themselves high.
On an outline map of India mark and label the following rivers: Ganga, Satluj, Damodar, Krishna, Narmada, Tapi, Mahanadi, and the Brahmaputra.
Give geographical reason.
The peninsular rivers don't face the problem of flood.
