CBSE Class 9 Social Science Physical Features of India MCQs Set 01

Answer: (b) Population density

Explanation:
1. Relief is shaped by geological formations and by processes such as weathering, erosion and deposition. Population density does not shape relief.

Teacher's Note:
1. Relief is a result of natural processes.
2. Human activities may modify it only locally.

Answer: (a) Seven

Explanation:
1. The crust has been formed out of seven major and some minor plates.

Teacher's Note:
1. Plates move slowly and cause folding, faulting and volcanic activity.
2. Plate boundaries are of three types.

Answer: (d) peninsula

Explanation:
1. A peninsula is a landmass surrounded by water on three sides, like peninsular India.

Teacher's Note:
1. An island is surrounded by water on all sides.
2. India's southern part is a peninsula.

Answer: (c) The Peninsular Plateau

Explanation:
1. The Peninsular Plateau is one of the ancient landmasses on earth's surface, a part of Gondwanaland.

Teacher's Note:
1. The Himalayas and Northern Plains are the youngest landforms.
2. The plateau is made of igneous and metamorphic rocks.

Answer: (b) Gondwanaland

Explanation:
1. The Peninsular Plateau was formed by the breaking and drifting of Gondwanaland.

Teacher's Note:
1. Gondwanaland was the southern part of Pangaea.
2. Angaraland was the northern part.

Answer: (a) Europe

Explanation:
1. Gondwanaland included India, Australia, South America, Africa and Antarctica; Europe was part of Angaraland (Laurasia).

Teacher's Note:
1. Gondwanaland was the southern supercontinent.
2. Europe was in the north.

Answer: (d) The Himalayas

Explanation:
1. Sediments in the Tethys were folded by the collision of the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates to form the Himalayas.

Teacher's Note:
1. The Indian plate drifted north after separating from Gondwanaland.
2. The collision created fold mountains.

Answer: (c) The Peninsular Plateau

Explanation:
1. The Peninsular Plateau is composed of ancient hard rocks and is one of the most stable land blocks.

Teacher's Note:
1. Stable means few earthquakes and little folding.
2. The Himalayas are still rising.

Answer: (b) The Himalayan Mountains

Explanation:
1. The Himalayas are young fold mountains with high peaks, deep valleys and fast flowing rivers, and form an unstable zone.

Teacher's Note:
1. Young fold mountains are still being uplifted.
2. They are prone to earthquakes and landslides.

Answer: (a) The Himalayas

Explanation:
1. The Himalayas are geologically young structurally fold mountains; the Aravalis are old, highly eroded hills.

Teacher's Note:
1. Fold mountains arise from compression of rocks.
2. The Aravalis are among the oldest mountains of India.

Answer: (d) The Himalayas

Explanation:
1. The Himalayas stretch along the northern borders and form one of the loftiest and most rugged mountain barriers of the world.

Teacher's Note:
1. They arc about 2,400 km from the Indus to the Brahmaputra.
2. They also shape India's climate.

Answer: (c) Great Himalayas or Himadri

Explanation:
1. The Himadri, the northernmost range, has the loftiest peaks and is perennially snow-bound with many glaciers.

Teacher's Note:
1. Himadri means abode of snow.
2. Its core is made of granite.

Answer: (b) Kanchenjunga

Explanation:
1. Kanchenjunga is the highest peak lying within India; Mt Everest lies in Nepal and Tibet.

Teacher's Note:
1. Do not confuse the world's highest peak with India's highest peak.
2. Kanchenjunga lies in Sikkim.

Answer: (a) Himachal

Explanation:
1. The range south of the Himadri is called the Himachal or Lesser Himalaya.

Teacher's Note:
1. Order from north to south is Himadri, Himachal, Shiwaliks.
2. Hill stations are located here.

Answer: (d) Kamet

Explanation:
1. Pir Panjal, Dhaula Dhar and Mahabharat are Himachal ranges; Kamet is a peak in the Himadri.

Teacher's Note:
1. Pir Panjal is the longest and most important range of the Himachal.
2. Use the order of ranges from the north.

Answer: (c) Purvanchal

Explanation:
1. Beyond the Dihang gorge the Himalayas bend south and spread as the Purvanchal, with the Patkai, Naga, Manipur and Mizo hills.

Teacher's Note:
1. Purvanchal means the Eastern hills.
2. These hills are of strong sandstones.

Answer: (b) Kannad Plain

Explanation:
1. North of Goa is the Konkan, south of Goa is the Kannad plain and then the Malabar coast.

Teacher's Note:
1. The Coromandel and Northern Circars are on the east coast.
2. Learn the west coast in order from north to south.

Answer: (a) Indira Point

Explanation:
1. Indira Point in the Great Nicobar Island is the southernmost point of the Indian Union; Kanyakumari is the southern tip of the mainland.

Teacher's Note:
1. Indira Point was earlier known as Pygmalion Point.
2. It was affected by the tsunami of 2004.

Answer: (d) Convergent, divergent and transform movements

Explanation:
1. Plates may come together (convergent), move apart (divergent) or slide past each other horizontally (transform).

Teacher's Note:
1. The three boundaries cause different features.
2. In a collision one plate may slide under the other.

Answer: (c) 6,000 metres

Explanation:
1. The Himadri is the most continuous range with an average height of about 6,000 metres.

Teacher's Note:
1. It contains all the prominent Himalayan peaks.
2. Its core is granite.