UPSC PYQ: Protected Areas and Hill Ranges (2013)
UPSC Prelims 2013 — pair matching, worked on the map
Consider the following pairs: 1. Nokrek Biosphere Reserve — Garo Hills 2. Logtak (Loktak) Lake — Barail Range 3. Namdapha National Park — Dafla Hills Which of the above pairs is/are correctly matched?
Correctly matched — Nokrek, in Meghalaya, sits within the Garo Hills and is the highest point of that range.
See Nokrek Biosphere Reserve on the map ↗Loktak Lake sits in the Manipur valley, not the Barail Range, which lies further west along the Assam–Nagaland–Manipur border.
See Loktak Lake on the map ↗Namdapha, in Arunachal Pradesh, is associated with the Patkai range, not the Dafla Hills further west near the Kameng/Subansiri region.
See Namdapha National Park on the map ↗Explore every pair yourself on the Protected Areas & Wetlands Map — switch to Recall mode once you've seen where each one actually sits.