Match List – I (Lake) with List – II (Location) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List – I (Lake): A. Sala Lake, B. Badkhal Lake, C. Loktak Lake, D. Kaliveli Lake
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Match List – I (Lake) with List – II (Location) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists:
List – I (Lake): A. Sala Lake, B. Badkhal Lake, C. Loktak Lake, D. Kaliveli Lake
List – II (Location): 1. Arunachal Pradesh, 2. Haryana, 3. Manipur, 4. Tamil Nadu

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Correct — (a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4. Sala (Sela) Lake sits high beside Sela Pass in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh (1); Badkhal Lake is a natural lake in Faridabad, Haryana (2); Loktak Lake — the largest freshwater lake in North-East India, famous for its floating phumdis — lies in Manipur (3); and Kaliveli Lake, a brackish coastal lagoon north of Puducherry, is in Tamil Nadu (4). It is the only option that pairs every lake with the right state.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Swaps the first two: it places Sala Lake in Haryana and Badkhal Lake in Arunachal Pradesh. In fact Badkhal is the Haryana (Faridabad) lake and Sela/Sala is the Arunachal one.  (c) Puts Badkhal Lake in Manipur (3) and Loktak Lake in Haryana (2). Loktak, with its phumdis and the Keibul Lamjao floating national park, is unmistakably in Manipur, not Haryana.  (d) Sends Badkhal to Tamil Nadu, Loktak to Haryana and Kaliveli to Manipur — three wrong pairings. Kaliveli is the Tamil Nadu coastal lagoon, not a Manipur lake.

Concept: This is a lake-to-state matching item spanning very different physiographic regions: a high-altitude snow-fed lake in the Eastern Himalaya (Sela/Sala), a semi-arid Aravalli-foothill lake near Delhi (Badkhal), a large freshwater tectonic lake in the north-east (Loktak) and a coastal brackish lagoon on the Coromandel coast (Kaliveli). Recognising even two or three anchors solves it.

State PCS 2020 Q56 — Geography PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q56 — Geography PYQ with Answer