Showing posts with label physical feature of India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label physical feature of India. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Coral reefs rings

 The Great Barrier Reef Australia is a good example of the first kind of coral reef. Atolls are circular or horse shoe shaped coral reefs.

Satpura Range

They are located in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. They are covered with forest. Rivers Narmada and Tapti flow through them before Falling In the Arabian Sea

Hill range of Deccan Plateau

Hill range of Deccan Plateau are:-
Sahyadri in Maharashtra and Karnataka Nilgiri and Anaimalai in Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu

Active volcano in India

Barren Island, situated in the Andaman and Nicobar group of island

Which place in India is located on three oceans

 Kanyakumari
The oceans are Arabian Sea Indian Bay of Bengal

Name two passes of the Eastern Himalayas


  1. Bomdi la Pass
  2.  Nathu la Pass

How was the Arabian Sea formed

 Thousand of years ago when the Himalayas were being formed by the movement of the tectonic plates and extensive volcano took place in the North Western part of the the peninsular plateau as a result of which the western part of the plateau subsided. Sun the Indian Ocean advanced to occupy this depression and in this way the Arabian Sea was formed

Island group of India having Coral origin

 Lakshadweep Island have Coral origin

Which plateau lies between the the Aravali and the Vindhyan range

The Malwa plateau lies between the Aravali and Vidya and range

Major division of the Himalayas from north to south

 The Himalayas are divided into following three division from the north to the south:-

  1.  The greater Himalayas or the inner Himalayas they are also called Himadri.
  2.   The middle Himalayas or Himachal.
  3.   The outer Himalayas or shivaliks

Which continents of today were part of the gondwana land

Asia Africa Australia South America and Antarctica

Tectonic plates types

 Tectonic plates are two types
Continental plates
Ocean plates

What are tectonic plates

 A tectonic plate it is part of of lithosphere which floats over dance semi molten Rock below it

The highest peak in the Eastern Ghat is

Mahindra Giri

The Western Coastal strip south of Goa is referred to as

Konkan

Mountain range in the Eastern part of India forming its boundary with Myanmar are collectively called as

 Purvanchal

A land mass bounded by sea on 3 side is referred to as

Peninsula