Answer the following questions briefly, 

(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? 

(iv) Name the two head-streams of the Ganga. Where do they meet to form Ganga? 

(v) Why does the Brahmaputra in its Tibetan part have less silt, despite a longer course? 

(vi) Which two peninsular rivers flow through trough? 

(vii)State some economic benefits of rivers and lakes.


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