Geography chap 3

what was commonly practiced to store drinking eater, particularly in Rajasthan?

• water harvesting system

• rooftop rain water harvesting

• underground tanks

In hill and mountainous regions, people built diversion channels like

• kuls and Guls

• Tankas

• palar pani

In Arid and semi-Arid regions, agricultural fields were converted into rain fed storage structures that allowed the water to stand and moisten the soil like the ______ in Jaisalmer.

• tankas

• palar pani

• Khadins

Rain falling on rooftops would travel down the pipe and was stored in these under ground

• Tankas

• palar pani

• Johads

choose the correct statement

• Shillong receive the highest rainfall in the world yet faces acute shortage of water

• Shillong receive the lowest rainfall in the world yet faces acute shortage of water

• Shillong receive the highest rainfall in the world yet faces more shortage of water

what is palar pani?

• purest form of natural water

• tap water

• mud water

nearly ____ per cent of total water requirement of the household comes from roof top water harvesting

• 1-8 %

• 15-25%

• 30-40%

• 45-50%

____ is the first state of India which has made rooftop rainwater harvesting structure compulsory to all the houses across the state

• Rajasthan

• Kerala

• New-Delhi

• Tamil Nadu

choose the correct statement

• During the time of Chandragupta Maurya, Dams , lake and irrigation systems were extensively built

• During the time of Chandragupta Maurya, Dams , lake and irrigation systems were extensively damaged

• none of the above

In the first century B.C, Sringaverapura near Allahabad had sophisticated water harvesting system channelling the flood water of the river Ganga

• True

• False