Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 70 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) What are the temperate grasslands of North America called? (ii) What are the cattle farms in the North American grasslands known as? (iii) Name the rivers that drain the Velds. (iv) When is the rainy season in the Velds? (v) What is the major occupation of the people of the South African grasslands? Answer : (i)The temperate grasslands of North America are called the Prairies. (ii)The cattle farms in the North American grasslands are known as ranches. (iii)The rivers Orange and Limpopo drain…
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Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 54 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) What are the four means of transport? (ii) What do you understand by the term ‘settlement’? (iii) Which are the activities practised by the rural people? (iv) Mention any two merits of railways. (v) What do you understand by communication? (vi) What is mass media? Answer : (i) The four major means of transport are roadways, railways, waterways and airways. (ii) Settlements are places where people build their homes – either permanent or temporary. (iii) In rural areas, people are engaged in activities…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 45 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) Which are the two factors on which the growth of vegetation mostly depends? (ii) Which are the three broad categories of natural vegetation? (iii) Name the two hardwood trees commonly found in tropical evergreen forest. (iv) In which part of the world are tropical deciduous forests found? (v) In which climatic conditions are citrus fruits cultivated? (vi) Mention the uses of coniferous forest. (vii) In which part of the world is seasonal grassland found? Answer : (i) Temperature and moisture are the two…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 37 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) What is precipitation? (ii) What is water cycle? (iii) What are the factors affecting the height of the waves? (iv) Which factors affect the movement of ocean water? (v) What are tides and how are they caused? (vi) What are ocean currents? Answer : (i)Sun’s heat causes water to evaporate. When the water vapour rises, it begins cooling. The condensing water vapour forms droplets of water. Masses of such water droplets form clouds and float in air. When these droplets become too heavy…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 27 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (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)The huge blanket of air surrounding the Earth is called atmosphere. (ii)Nitrogen and oxygen make the bulk of the atmosphere. (iii)Carbon dioxide creates greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. (iv)Weather refers to the short-term changes in the atmosphere. It is the hour-to-hour, day-to-day condition of…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 17 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) Why do the plates move? (ii) What are exogenic and endogenic forces? (iii) What is erosion? (iv) How are flood plains formed? (v) What are sand dunes? (vi) How are beaches formed? (vii) What are ox-bow lakes? Answer : (i)The Lithospheric plates move around because of the movement of the molten magma inside the Earth. (ii)Earth’s movements are divided on the basis of the forces which cause them. The ones that work on the Earth’s surface are called exogenic forces while the ones…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 10 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) What are the three layers of the Earth? (ii) What is a rock? (iii) Name three types of rocks. (iv) How are extrusive and intrusive rocks formed? (v) What do you mean by a rock cycle? (vi) What are the uses of rocks? (vii) What are metamorphic rocks? Answer : (i)The three layers of the Earth are the crust, the mantle and the core. (ii)A rock refers to any natural mass of mineral matter that makes up the Earth’s crust. (iii)Igneous, sedimentary and…
Exercise : Solutions of Questions on Page Number : 6 Q1 : Answer the following questions. (i) What is an ecosystem? (ii) What do you mean by natural environment? (iii) Which are the major components of environment? (iv) Give four examples of human-made environment. (v) What is lithosphere? (vi) Which are the two major components of biotic environment? (vii) What is biosphere? Answer : (i)Plants, animals and human beings depend on their immediate surroundings. They are often interdependent on each other as well. These relations of dependence and interdependence together constitute an ecosystem. In other words, an ecosystem is the…
Answer the following Questions Q1. Read and discuss the following description of the living conditions of workers who come to the labour chowk. Most workers that we find at the labour chowk cannot afford permanent accomodation and sleep on pavements near the chowk, or they pay Rs. 6 a night for a bed at a nearby night shelter run by the Municipal Corporation. To compensate for the lack of security, local tea and cigarette shops function as banks, moneylenders and safety lockers, all rolled into one. Most workers leave their tools at these shops for the night for safe keeping…
Answer the following Question Q1.You have probably noticed that people in Kalpattu are engaged in a variety of nonfarm work. List five of these. Ans: (i) Making baskets, utensils, pots, bricks bullock-carts etc. (i)Teaching (ii)Washing clothes (iii)Weaving (iv)Repairing cycle. Q2. List the different types of people you read about in Kalpattu who depend on farming. Who is the poorest among them and why? Ans: These people are Thulasi, Sekar and Ramalingam. Thulasi is the poorest among them. It is because she has no land of her own. She works on Ramalingam’s field and earns Rs. 40 per day. Although she…