India: Our Motherland

 India : Our Motherland

Q.1. What is the location and size of India?

Q.2. How many states and Union Territories does India have?

Q.3. Name three recently formed states?

Q.4. Which states have a common boundary with Pakistan?

Q.5. Which states have a common boundary with China?

Q.6. Which states have a common boundary with Bangladesh?

Q.7. Which states are along the sea coast?

Q.8. Which states are known as seven sisters?

Q.9. Which countries share land boundaries with India?

Q.10. Which countries are included in the Indian subcontinent?

Q.11. Which are the five physiographic divisions of India?

Q.12. What is the east-west extent of the mountain ranges along the Northern boundary of our country?

Q.13. What does the word Himalayas mean?

Q.14. Which are the three parallel ranges of the Himalayas?

Q.15. Which is the northernmost range of the Himalayas?

Q.16. What are Purvanchal Hills?

Q.17. Name some hill stations of the Himachal Range?

Q.18. What are ‘duns’? Give an example?

Q.19. Describe the Northern plains?

Q.20. Which are the three parts of the Northern Plains?

Q.21. What is the origin of the Indus river?

Q.22. Where is Indus plain located?

Q.23. Name the tributaries of the Indus?

Q.24. Name the tributaries of the Ganga?

Q.25. Where is the origin of Brahmaputra?

Q.26. What is the name of Brahmaputra in Tibet?

Q.27. Name one tributary of Brahmaputra?

Q.28. Which kind of rocks are found in the Great Indian Plateau?

Q.29. The Narmada river divides the Great Indian Plateau into which two parts?

Q.30. What forms the boundaries of the Central Highlands?

Q.31. The western part of the Central Highlands are known as?

Q.32. What forms the Western Ghats?

Q.33. Name the highest peak in the Deccan plateau?

Q.34. Which rivers flow in the Eastern Ghats?

Q.35. Where do the Eastern and the Western ghats converge?

Q.36. Which region is covered by the Deccan trap?

Q.37. Which two rivers fall into the Arabian Sea?

Q.38. Which is the longest river of south India?

Q.39. What forms the western coastal plain?

Q.40. Name two natural harbors of India?

Q.41. What forms the eastern coastal plain?

Q.42. What is the name of the Indian desert?

Q.43. Name the two groups of islands of India?