Chapter 10 Life in the Deserts
Chapter 10 Life in the Deserts 1. Answer the following questions briefly: (a) What are the two types of deserts found in the world? (b) In which continent is the […]
Chapter 9 Life in the Temperate Grasslands
Chapter 9 Life in the Temperate Grasslands 1. Answer the following questions briefly. What are the Temperate Grasslands of North America called? What are the cattle farms in the North American Grasslands known as? Name the rivers that drain the velds. When is the rainy season in the Velds. What is the major occupation of […]
Chapter 8 Human Environment Interactions (The Tropical and the Subtropical Region)
Chapter 8 Human Environment Interactions (The Tropical and the Subtropical Region) 1. Answer the following questions briefly: Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin in located. What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin? Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rain forests of the Amazon. […]
Chapter 7 Human Environment–Settlement, Transport and Communication
Chapter 7 Human Environment–Settlement, Transport and Communication 1. Answer the following questions briefly. What are the four means of transport? What do you understand by the term ‘settlement’? Which are the activities practiced by the rural people? Mention any two merits of railways. What do you understand by communication? What is the mass media? Answer: […]
Chapter 6 Natural Vegetation and Wildlife
Chapter 6 Natural Vegetation and Wildlife 1. Answer the following questions briefly. Which are the two factors on which the growth of vegetation mostly depends? Which are the three broad categories of natural vegetation? Name the two hardwood trees commonly found in tropical evergreen forest In which part of the world is tropical deciduous forests […]
Chapter 5 Water
Chapter 5 Water Q. 1. Answer the following questions briefly. (a) What is precipitation? (b) What is the water cycle? (c) What are the factors affecting the height of the waves? (d) Which factors affect the movement of ocean water? (e) What are tides and how are they caused? (f) What are ocean currents? Ans. […]
Chapter 4 Air
Chapter 4 Air Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly. (i) What is atmosphere? (ii) Which two gases make the bulk of the atmosphere? (iii) Which gas creates greenhouse effect in the atmosphere? (iv) What is weather? (v) Name three types of rainfall (vi) What is air pressure? Answer: (i) Atmosphere is a thin blanket of […]
Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth
Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly: Why do the plated move? What are exogenic and endogenic forces? What is erosion? How are flood plains formed? What are sand dunes? How are the beaches formed? What are the ox-bow lakes? Answer: Plates move due to the movement in the molten magma […]
Chapter 2 Inside Our Earth
Chapter 2 Inside Our Earth Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly. What are the three layers of the earth? What is a rock? Name three types of rocks. How are extrusive and intrusive rocks formed? What do you mean by a rock cycle? What are the uses of rocks? What are metamorphic rocks? Answer: Three […]
Chapter 1 Environment
Chapter 1 Environment Question 1.Answer the following questions briefly. What is an ecosystem? What do you mean by the natural environment? Which are the major components of the environment? Give four examples of a human-made environment. What is the lithosphere? Which are the two major components of the biotic environment? What is the biosphere? Answer: […]