SSC
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Himilaya Mountains
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Yellow River
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Gobi Desert
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Taklimakan Desert
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Gobi Desert. The Gobi is a desert and semidesert region of Central Asia. The Gobi (from the Mongolian Gobi, meaning “waterless place”) stretches across huge portions of both Mongolia and China.
Detailed explanation-2: -Prominent landforms include sand hills and dunes, dry mountain slopes, gravelly steppes, rocky hills, saxaul forests, dry riverbeds, and more. Situated to the north and high up around 1500m above sea level, the Gobi is a cold desert with extreme weather conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Gobi desert covers the southern part of Mongolia, northern and northwestern parts of China. The Gobi desert area covers 1.3 million square kilometers, the fifth-largest desert in size, and is elevated approximately 1500 m above sea level.
Detailed explanation-4: -It is divided politically and geographically by the Gobi (desert) into the independent state of Mongolia (also called Outer Mongolia) in the north and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China in the south.