The activities of Ganga Action Plan $(\text{GAP})$ initiated in which year?
✓
$1985$
B
$1995$
C
$1975$
D
$2005$
Answer
Correct option: A.
$1985$
Ganga Action Plan $(\text{GAP})$ is being implemented since $1985$ for undertaking pollution abatement activities in the identified polluted stretches of river Ganga through implementation of works like interception and diversion of sewage, setting up of sewage treatment plants, low cost sanitation works, crematoria work etc.
The rivers perform intensive erosional activities in which course?
A
Middle course.
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Upper course.
C
Lower course.
D
All of these.
Answer
Correct option: B.
Upper course.
The Himalayan Rivers in their upper course are supposed to carry glaciers and snow along with little sediments and cutting and eroding rocks and mountains.
Which of the following rivers has the largest drainage basin in the world?
A
River Nile.
B
River Ganga.
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River Amazon.
D
River Mississippi.
Answer
Correct option: C.
River Amazon.
The Amazon Basin, in northern South America, is the largest in the world. The Amazon River and all of its tributaries drain an area more than $7$ million square kilometers $($about $3$ million square miles$).$ Structural basins are formed by tectonic activity.
Choose the right answer from the four alternatives given below.Which one of the following describes the drainage patterns resembling the branches of a tree?
Which of the following river is also known as the 'Dakshin Ganga'?
✓
Godavari.
B
Tapi.
C
Krishna.
D
Kaveri.
Answer
Correct option: A.
Godavari.
Godavari river is known as Dakshin Ganga because it is the longest river of south India and hence more useful, like Ganga river for north India, than any other south Indian river.