Geography - Class 9

Drainage

Q17. What is a gorge?

 

Q18. Which city is located on the water divide between the Indus and the Ganga river systems?

Or

Which place is located on the water divide between the Indus and the Ganga river systems?

 

Q19. What controls the drainage system of India?

Or

How are drainage systems of India mainly controlled?

 

Q20. Name some fresh water lakes of India.

 

Q21. Name the main water divide in Peninsular India.

 

Q22. Name the two west flowing peninsular rivers which make estuaries.

 

Q23. Name the tributaries of Godavari river.

 

Q24. Write the major tributaries of river Ganga.

 

Q25. What are perennial rivers?

 

Q26. Which is the northernmost point of Ganga Delta?

 

Q27. Where did the Brahmaputra River originate?

 

Q28. Name the tributaries that join the river Indus in the Kashmir.

 

Q29. What are the main tributaries of river Indus?

 

Q30. What is drainage and drainage basin?

 

Q31. Name the two headstreams of the Ganga. Where do they meet to form the Ganga?

 

Q32. At which place do the Satluj, Beas, Ravi, Chenab and the Jhelum rivers join together to enter the Indus?

 

Q33. In which two major groups Indian rivers are divided into?

 

Q34. Which type of drainage pattern is formed by Narmada river?

Or

Identify the drainage pattern of river Narmada.

 

Q35. What is the similarity between river Damodar and Kosi?

Or

What is the common between river Damodar and Kosi?