Indian Geography MCQs with Answers & Explanations

Sadhu Bet island is located in:

• Goa
• Tamilnadu
• Gujarat
• West Bengal

In this method, a piece of forest land is cleared by felling and burning and crops are grown:

• Mixed farming
• Jhuming
• Intensive subsistence farming
• Extensive commercial farming

Which State of India has the highest Buddhist population ?

• Maharashtra
• Himachal Pradesh
• Sikkim
• Tripura

Which State of India is one of the homes of the major Dravidian languages ?

• Kerala
• Assam
• Punjab
• Uttar Pradesh

Its upper catchment receives rainfall during summer by the south-west monsoon and the lower catchment during winter season by the retreating north-east monsoon:

• The Mahanadi River
• The Godavari River
• The Krishna River
• The Cauvery River

Which river of the Indus basin lies entirely within the Indian teritory ?

• The Jhelum
• The Chenab
• The Ravi
• The Beas

This soil is also called regur:

• Red soil
• Alluvial soil
• Black soil
• Laterite soil

The nature of Indian agriculture is:

• shifting
• extensive commercial
• intensive subsistence
• plantation

Blue Revolution is related to the

• Dairy industry
• Aquaculture industry
• Rubber industry
• Petro-chemical industry

The areas under Green Revolution technology are facing the problem of:

• gradual loss of soil fertility
• increasing alkalinity and salinity of soils
• chemical poisoning of soils
• All of the above