Question

(i) What is meant by a water divide? Give an example.
(ii) Which is the largest river basin in India?
(iii) Where do the rivers Indus and Ganga have their origin?

Answer 1

(i) Any elevated area, such as a mountain or an upland, separates two drainage basins. Such an upland is known as a water divide.

(ii) Ganga River basin is the largest river basin in India.

(iii)

• Indus river origin – Near Manasarovar Lake, Tibet
• Ganga River origin – Gangotri glacier in Uttaranchal

Answer 2

Answer:

(I) Any elevated area, such as a mountain or an upland, separates two drainage basins. Such an upland is known as a water divide. example, Indus and the Ganga river.

(ll) Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna.

(lll) River Indus originates near lake Mansarowar in Tibet and Ganga originates from Gangotri glacier.

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