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Answer the following questions:
1. What is a peninsula ?
2. How do the western coastal plains differ from the eastern ones ?
3. How are Lakshadweep Islands different from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
4. Where is the Indira Point located ?
Answers
Answer:
1.an area of land that is almost surrounded by water.
2.Eastern Coastal Plain is in between the Bay of Bengal in the East and the Eastern Ghats to its West. Western Coastal Plain is between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats. No Deltas are formed in Western Coastal plains, by small rivers. ... Western Coastal plain is intersected by mountain ridges.
3.The Andman and Nicobar islands are originated from volcanic erruptions but Lakshadweep islands are originated from coral reefs(skeleton of sea anemones).
Andman and Nicobar islands stretched in bay of bengal and lakshadweep stretched in Arabian sea.
Total geographical area of andaman and nicobar islands is 8249 km and lakshdweep is 32 km.
4.Indira Point, southernmost point of India's territory,[1] is a village in the Nicobar district at Great Nicobar Island of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. It is located in the Great Nicobar tehsil.[2]