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What do you understand by the term 'Doab'?

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

  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

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Correct Option: D
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.

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

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

  1. Computer virus

  2. Worm

  3. Denial-of-service attack

  4. None of the above

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Correct Option: C

From which river would the National River Project be started?

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

  1. Yamuna

  2. Gomati

  3. Ganga

  4. Krishna

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Correct Option: C
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. 

The intensive erosion activity is performed by the river in _____course.

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

  1. Lower

  2. Middle

  3. Upper

  4. Coast

  5. None of these

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Correct Option: C

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

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

  1. Dunes, corrosion, U-shaped valley.

  2. Bars, Lagoons, Atolls.

  3. Gorge, V-shaped valley, Cliff.

  4. Meanders, ox-bow lake and Delta

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

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

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.

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

  1. Only 1 is correct

  2. Only 2 is correct

  3. Both 1 and 2 are correct

  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is correct

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Correct Option: B

River system having the largest drainage system in the world is _______.

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

  1. Mississipi in America.

  2. Nile river in Egypt.

  3. Amazon river

  4. Yellow river in China.

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

River system having the largest drainage system in the world is Amazon river

Factors affecting work of river are ____________.

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

  1. Velocity of water

  2. Volume of water

  3. Load

  4. All of these

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Correct Option: D
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.

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

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

  1. mouth

  2. source

  3. course

  4. none of these

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Correct Option: A
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.

Erosion, transportation and deposition are factors of _________.

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

  1. River

  2. Soil

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these

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Correct Option: C
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.