Tag: human environment - settlement, transport and communication

Questions Related to human environment - settlement, transport and communication

Marmagao port is linked to the interior of rivers ___________________.

  1. Zuari and Mandovi

  2. Bhima and Kalinadi

  3. Varada and Malaprabha

  4. Gangawali and Savitri


Correct Option: A

Which of the following is the deepest landlocked protected port?

  1. Kandla

  2. Vishakhapatnam

  3. Haldia

  4. Tuticorin


Correct Option: B

Match the following inland waterways and the areas served by them:

List-I List-II
A. Backwaters 1. Goa
B. Buckingham Canal 2. Kerala
C. Cumbarjua Canal 3. Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh
  1. A - 1, B - 2, C - 3

  2. A - 2, B - 3, C - 1

  3. A - 2, B - 1, C - 3

  4. A - 1, B - 3, C - 2


Correct Option: B

The four important ports of the West Coast of India, from South to North __________.

  1. Kandla, Mumbai, Goa, Cochin

  2. Goa, Mumbai, Cochin, Kandla

  3. Mumbai, Kandla, Goa, Cochin

  4. Cochin, Goa, Mumbai, Kandla


Correct Option: D

The land-locked natural harbour along the east coast of India is _______.

  1. Visakhapatnam

  2. Chennai

  3. Kolkata

  4. Paradeep


Correct Option: A

The Buckingham Canal runs through ________.

  1. Tamil Nadu and Karnataka

  2. Kerala and Andhra Pradesh

  3. Tamil Nadu and Kerala

  4. Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The Buckingham Canal is a 796 kilometres long freshwater navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India from Kakinada in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu.