Landforms By Running Water

Question 1

Name largest canyon in world
Largest gorge in india

Answer 1

Yarlung tsangpo grand canyon, tibet
Gorge of gandikota, pennar river, andhra

Question 2

Name two waterfalls formed due to fault line in path

Answer 2

Victoria falls on zambezi
Angel falls on churun river (part of orinoco)

Question 3

Name two waterfalls formed due to hard and soft rock lying transversally to each other

Answer 3

Niagara falls ( niagara river)
Kaieteur falls(guyana)

Question 4

Name a waterfall down a plateau

Answer 4

Livingstone waterfall, river congo

Question 5

Name waterfall produced by hanging valley

Answer 5

Yosemite fall (merced river , california)

Question 6

Name an ox bow lake in india which is also a ramsar site
By which river it is formed and in which state

Answer 6

Kanwar jheel bihar by meandering of gandhak
In bihar