Fri. Jan 10th, 2025

Drainage System and Patterns

  1. What is a herringbone drainage pattern also known as?

    Options:
    1. Trellised drainage pattern
    2. Annular drainage pattern
    3. Rib pattern
    4. Pinnate drainage pattern

    Option: C

  2. What is the herringbone drainage pattern?

    Options:
    1. A pattern of rivers that flow in a straight line
    2. A pattern of rivers that follow the regional slope
    3. A pattern of rivers that flow in a sinuous course
    4. A pattern of rivers that join at acute angles

    Option: D

  3. Where does the herringbone drainage pattern occur?

    Options:
    1. In uniformly sloping and dipping rock beds
    2. In newly emerged coastal plains
    3. In east-west trenches in the Himalayas
    4. In parallel to each other and follow the regional slope

    Option: C

  4. What is the name of the river that forms a herringbone drainage pattern in the Vale of Kashmir?

    Options:
    1. Tamar Kosi
    2. Upper Rapti
    3. Rapti
    4. Jhelum

    Option: D

  5. What kind of drainage pattern is more frequently developed on uniformly sloping and dipping rock beds?

    Options:
    1. Herringbone drainage pattern
    2. Dendritic drainage pattern
    3. Trellis drainage pattern
    4. Parallel drainage pattern

    Option: D

  6. Which region represents several examples of parallel drainage patterns in India?

    Options:
    1. The western coastal plains
    2. The Eastern Coastal Plains
    3. The Himalayas
    4. The Deccan Plateau

    Option: A

  7. What is river capture?

    Options:
    1. The process of forming a river
    2. The process of diverting the course of a river by another river
    3. The process of drying up a river
    4. The process of merging two rivers into one

    Option: B

  8. What is the river which captures the course of another river called?

    Options:
    1. Captive river
    2. Captured river
    3. Captor river
    4. Capturing river

    Option: C

  9. What is the part of the stream which has been divested of its course and water called?

    Options:
    1. Captive stream
    2. Captured stream
    3. Captor stream
    4. Capturing stream

    Option: B

  10. Which stage of valley development is more active in river capture?

    Options:
    1. Youthful stage
    2. Mature stage
    3. Senile stage
    4. None of the above

    Option: A

  11. What are the four major evidences of river capture?

    Options:
    1. Waterfalls, meanders, oxbow lakes, and riverbanks
    2. Elbow of capture, cols or wind gaps, water gaps, and misfit or underfit streams and valleys
    3. Deltas, estuaries, rapids, and pools
    4. Floodplains, levees, meander scars, and alluvial fans

    Option: B

  12. What is the point where the course of the captured stream has been diverted to the course of the captor stream called?

    Options:
    1. Elbow of capture
    2. Water gap
    3. Wind gap
    4. Misfit stream

    Option: A

  13. What is the dry portion of the beheaded stream just below the elbow of capture called?

    Options:
    1. Elbow of capture
    2. Water gap
    3. Wind gap
    4. Misfit stream

    Option: C

  14. What are the conditions required for river capture to occur?

    Options:
    1. Steep channel gradient, narrow valley, high water volume, soft rocks, deep valley, and low sediment loa
    2. Wide channel gradient, narrow valley, low water volume, hard rocks, shallow valley, and high sediment loa
    3. Steep channel gradient, wide valley, high water volume, hard rocks, deep valley, and high sediment loa
    4. Narrow channel gradient, wide valley, low water volume, soft rocks, shallow valley, and low sediment loa

    Option: A

  15. Which of the following is the most powerful geomorphological process of river capture?

    Options:
    1. Vertical erosion
    2. Lateral erosion
    3. Headward erosion
    4. Intersection of meanders

    Option: C

  16. During which stage of river development is headward erosion more effective in terms of river capture?

    Options:
    1. Mature stage
    2. Youthful stage
    3. Old stage
    4. None of the above

    Option: B

  17. What are the three broad categories of river capture forms?

    Options:
    1. Capture through headward erosion, capture through lateral erosion, and capture through intersection of meanders.
    2. Capture through headward erosion, capture through vertical erosion, and capture through lateral erosion.
    3. Capture through lateral erosion, capture through intersection of meanders, and capture through vertical erosion.
    4. Capture through intersection of meanders, capture through headward erosion, and capture through deposition.

    Option: A

  18. What is the primary factor that determines the nature and intensity of headward erosion?

    Options:
    1. The volume of water
    2. The type of rocks
    3. The height of the water divide
    4. The depth of the valley

    Option: C

  19. What is the name of the stream that was captured by C stream?

    Options:
    1. B stream
    2. A stream
    3. D stream
    4. E stream

    Option: C

  20. What is the name of the portion of the former B consequent stream that has become a beheaded stream?

    Options:
    1. H-B
    2. B-E
    3. C-D
    4. A-B

    Option: A