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Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

What do you understand by the term 'Doab'?

  1. Where the delta of river begins

  2. Where two or more rivers meet

  3. Land between two separate river systems

  4. Land between two tributaries of a river
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Land between two tributaries of a river means 'Doab'. The place where two small streams join together and results in the formation of a big river is called a DOAB. The small streams might be the tributaries of a river also.


Doab. Doab is a term used in South Asia for the "tongue," or tract of land lying between two converging, or confluent, rivers. McGregor defines it as "(Persian do-āb: a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers.

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

What floods a Web site with so many requests for service that it slows down or crashes?

  1. Computer virus

  2. Worm

  3. Denial-of-service attack

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack involves flooding a server with excessive traffic to make it unavailable to legitimate users.

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

From which river would the National River Project be started?

  1. Yamuna

  2. Gomati

  3. Ganga

  4. Krishna
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The National River Linking Project (NRLP) is designed to ease water shortages in western and southern India while mitigating the impacts of recurrent floods in the eastern part of the Ganga basin. 

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

The group of depositional features formed by the Himalayan rivers is _______.

  1. Dunes, corrosion, U-shaped valley.

  2. Bars, Lagoons, Atolls.

  3. Gorge, V-shaped valley, Cliff.

  4. Meanders, ox-bow lake and Delta
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The group of depositional features formed by the Himalayan rivers is Meanders, ox-bow lake and Delta.

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

Consider the following statements and select the  correct answer using the code given below:
1. In a trellis drainage pattern the tributaries of a river join approximately at right angles.
2. A rectangular drainage pattern develops on a strongly jointed rocky terrain.

  1. Only 1 is correct

  2. Only 2 is correct

  3. Both 1 and 2 are correct

  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is correct
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

Factors affecting work of river are ____________.

  1. Velocity of water

  2. Volume of water

  3. Load

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Factors affecting work of river are Velocity of water, Volume of water and Load.
The flow velocity, or speed of flow, can influence the shape and rate of erosion of a river system. The cross-sectional shape of a river dictates how much friction will impact the flow of water within a river. Finally, the sediment load, or the amount of rocks and soil in the river, impacts its flow velocity and shape.

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

A river enters the sea or disappears before joining the sea is called its _________.

  1. mouth

  2. source

  3. course

  4. none of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The last past of the river when it reaches the end of its journey, it is called an old river or the old stage. The end of the river is called the mouth. At the mouth, there is often a river delta, a large, silty area where the river splits into many different slow-flowing channels that have muddy banks. At this stage deposition is the only work of the river.

Multiple choice geography rivers rivers and their work exogenic forces exogenic processes part-1

Erosion, transportation and deposition are factors of _________.

  1. River

  2. Soil

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Erosion is the action of surface processes that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it away to another location. The particulate breakdown of rock or soil into clastic sediment is referred to as physical or mechanical erosion; this contrasts with chemical erosion, where soil or rock material is removed from an area by its dissolving into a solvent, followed by the flow away of that solution. Eroded sediment or solutes may be transported just a few millimeters, or for thousands of kilometers.

Natural rates of erosion are controlled by the action of geomorphic drivers, such as rainfall or bedrock wear in rivers or coastal erosion by the sea and waves or glacial plucking, abrasion, and scour; areal flooding; wind abrasion; groundwater processes; and mass movement processes in steep landscapes like landslides and debris flows.