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Drainage Systems in India

In this Class 9 Geography topic from the chapter Drainage, students learn how water flows across India through river systems, drainage basins, and networks. They explore the Himalayan and Peninsular river systems, compare their origins, courses, seasonal flow, and landforms, and understand patterns such as dendritic, trellis, and radial drainage. The topic also introduces the importance of rivers and lakes, along with concerns related to floods, pollution, and water management.

Hard · Level 6 · 25 questions

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  1. It creates strong seasonal variation in river flow
  2. Rivers get equal glacial water throughout the year
  3. All rivers dry permanently
  4. River directions reverse every year
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  1. They regulate river water for irrigation, power and flood control
  2. They always stop the river from reaching the sea
  3. They change the river source into a glacier
  4. They remove all tributaries
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  1. Surface runoff and soil erosion may increase
  2. Sediment in the river will completely disappear
  3. The water divide will become a sea
  4. The river will always become glacier-fed
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  1. Both glacier melt and rainfall
  2. Only sea tides
  3. Only underground hot water
  4. Only desert dew
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  1. Deposition will increase and the river may form bends
  2. Vertical erosion will always increase
  3. Water will become faster without sediment
  4. The river will immediately become a glacier
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  1. Low gradient and high sediment divide the main channel into branches
  2. Steep mountain slope keeps the river straight
  3. Glacier makes the river flow backward
  4. Sea water dries the river
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  1. Himalayan rivers are young and active while Peninsular rivers are more mature
  2. Both rivers are fed only by glaciers
  3. Both always flow westward
  4. Peninsular rivers form gorges in the Himalayas
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  1. Indus river system
  2. Godavari river system
  3. Kaveri river system
  4. Mahanadi river system
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  1. It flows by cutting deep valleys despite Himalayan uplift
  2. It ends only in the Rann of Kachchh
  3. It forms no valley
  4. It is a completely artificial canal
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  1. Fertile alluvial deposits brought by the river
  2. Continuous spread of sea salt
  3. Deposition of ice by glaciers
  4. Permanent dune of desert sand
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  1. Concrete surfaces reduce infiltration and increase surface runoff
  2. Cities always turn river water into glaciers
  3. Urban areas completely stop rainfall
  4. Concrete makes all river courses natural
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  1. Water quality declines and aquatic ecosystem weakens
  2. The river automatically becomes a mountain
  3. River water always becomes sweet and pure
  4. Tributaries disappear immediately
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  1. Trellis pattern
  2. Radial pattern
  3. Dendritic pattern
  4. Centripetal pattern
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  1. Where streams flow towards a central depression or lake
  2. Where all streams flow outward from a mountain
  3. Where a river directly enters the sea
  4. Where there is no low area
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  1. It helps plan water resources, floods and land use
  2. It fixes the colour of the river
  3. It makes all rivers flow in one direction
  4. It completely ends rainfall
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  1. High gradient and swift flow make energy generation possible
  2. Rivers are completely still and without flow
  3. Rivers end in deserts
  4. Rivers never contain water
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  1. Spreading and deposition of fine alluvium during floods
  2. Only glacial erosion in mountains
  3. Cutting rocks by sea waves
  4. Complete drying of groundwater
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  1. The river has strong vertical erosion power
  2. The river has no gradient
  3. The river is flowing only in a delta
  4. The river has no water source
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  1. Most rivers flow east because the general slope of the plateau is eastward
  2. All rivers flow towards the Himalayas
  3. All rivers flow only westward
  4. The plateau has no slope direction
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  1. Risk of erosion, flood and land loss
  2. Immediate formation of Himalayas
  3. Complete disappearance of the sea
  4. Permanent stoppage of rainfall
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  1. They can help in water storage, flow regulation and ecology
  2. They permanently stop all rivers
  3. They always make river water saline
  4. They end the river basin
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  1. They affect the water, sediment and basin area of the main river
  2. They never join the main river
  3. They only end separately in the sea
  4. They are not part of a river system
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  1. Diversity in relief, rock structure, climate and slope
  2. Same rock and slope throughout the country
  3. Same source of all rivers
  4. Complete absence of river water in the country
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  1. Because they always flow without sediment
  2. Because they enter flat plains with high discharge and heavy sediment
  3. Because they end only in desert areas
  4. Because they flow backward due to sea tides
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  1. It indicates slope, rock and geological structure
  2. It tells only river colour
  3. It tells only the number of boats
  4. It tells only weather temperature

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