Ans: Young Fold Mountains
2. What is the average width of the Himalayan range?
Ans: 160-325 km
3. The Himalaya mountain range is ____ km long?
Ans: 2,500 km
4. What was the name of the sea which once occupied the place of Himalayas?
Ans: Tethys Sea
5. What is the height of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest?
Ans: 8,848 M
6. In which country is the Mount Everest situated?
Ans: Nepal
7. Which is world's second tallest and India's highest peak?
Ans: Mount Godwin Austin (Mount K2)
8. What is the height of the Mount K2?
Ans: 8,611 M
9. Which Is the world's third tallest peak situated in India?
Ans: Kanchenjunga (8,598 M)
10. Which are the three parallel belts of the Himalayan range?
Ans: Outer Himalayas, Lesser Himalayas & Greater Himalayas
11. Which Is the southern most Himalayan belt, consists of foothills?
Ans: Outer Himalayas
12. Which Himalayan belt is also known as 'Siwaliks'?
Ans: Outer Himalayas
13. Which Himalayan belt is heavily forested?
Ans: The Siwaliks
14. Which Himalayan belt is characterised by the 'duns'?
Ans: The Siwaliks
15. Dehradun Valley is situated in the _____ belt of the Himalayas?
Ans: The Siwaliks
16. Which Himalayan belt is composed of fluvial deposits of boulders, sand, silt and clay, which are prone to intense erosion?
Ans: Outer Himalayas (Siwalik)
17. The Lesser Himalayas belt, lie north of Siwaliks is also known as:
Ans: Himachal
18. In which Himalayan belt is the hill stations of Mussoorie, Nainital & Darjeeling are situated?
Ans: Lesser Himalayas
19. Which is the northern most belt of Himalayas?
Ans: Greater Himalayas
20. 'Himadri’ is the another name of _____:
Ans: Greater Himalayas
21. In which Himalayan belt is the highest peaks situated?
Ans: Himadri
22. Which belt of the Himalayas contain most of the glaciers from which the important rivers like Ganga & Yamuna originate?
Ans: Greater Himalayas
23. In which Himalayan belt is the passes like Nathu La, Jelep La & Shipki La are situated?
Ans: Greater Himalayas
24. The mountain ranges north of the Himalayas are called?
Ans: Trans or Tethyan Himalayas
25. In India, the Trans Himalayas are present only in the ____ region of Jammu & Kashmir?
Ans: Ladakh
26. The world's second tallest peak Mount K-2 situated in which mountain range?
Ans: The Karakoram range
27. The Northern Plains stretches from Punjab in the west to ____ valley in the east?
Ans: Assam valley
28. What is the average width of the Northern Plains?
Ans: 250-320 km
