(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?
(i) The four means of transport are such as:
- Roadways
- Airways
- Waterways
- Railways
(ii) Settlements are the places where people build their own homes which may be permanent or temporary.
(iii) Activities practiced by the rural are as given below:
- Hunting
- Gathering
- Shifting cultivation
- Agricultures
- Fishing, forestry
- Crafts work
- Transhumance (second migration)
(iv) Two merits of railways are as follows:
- Railways carry people over the long distance very rapidly and cheaply.
- They also carry heavy goods, a raw material in bulk, transported from mines to the industrial areas and from there to the markets or ports.
(v) Communication is the process of conveying messages from one to other.
(vi) The modes of communication by which we can communicate with a large number of people such as newspaper, radio and television, are known as mass media.
Popular Questions of Class 7 Social Science - Our Environment (Geography)
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Imagine an ideal environment where you would love to live. Draw the picture of your ideal environment.
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(i) There is scanty vegetation in the deserts.
(ii) People of the Sahara desert wear heavy robes. - Q:-
Observe the photographs given below. These are various features made by a river. Identify them and also tell whether they are erosional or depositional or landforms formed by both.
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(i) Wet clothes take longer time to dry on a humid day?
(ii) Amount of insolation decreases from equator towards poles? - Q:-
(i) Today’s world is shrinking.
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(i) Which is not a natural ecosystem?
(a) Desert (b) Aquarium (c) Forest
(ii) Which is not a component of human environment?
(a) Land (b) Religion (c) Community
(iii) Which is a human made environment?
(a) Mountain (b) Sea (c) Road
(iv) Which is a threat to environment?
(a) Growing plant(b) Growing population (c) Growing crops - Q:-
(i) Which of the following gases protects us from harmful sun vays?
(a) Carbon dioxide (b) Nitrogen (c) Ozone(ii) The most important layer of the atmosphere is
(a) Troposphere (b) Thermosphere (c) Mesosphere(iii) Which of the following layers of the atmosphere is free from clouds?
(a) Troposphere (b) Stratosphere (c) Mesosphere(iv) As we go up the layers of the atmosphere, the pressure
(a) Increases (b) Decreases (c) Remains the same(v) When precipitation comes down to the earth in the liquid form, it is called
(a) Cloud (b) Rain (c) Snow - Q:-
(i) Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin is located.
(ii) What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin.
(iii) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon.
(iv) What are the major cities located on the River Ganga.
(v) Where is the one-horned rhinoceros found? - Q:-
(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? - Q:-
(i) Ocean water is salty.
(ii) The quality of water is deterioting.
Recently Viewed Questions of Class 7 Social Science - Our Environment (Geography)
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(i) Which is not an erosional feature of sea waves?
(a) Cliff (b) Beach (c) Sea cave(ii) The depositional feature of a glacier is:
(a) Flood plain (b) Beach (c) Moraine(iii) Which is caused by the sudden movements of the earth?
(a) Volcano (b) Folding (c) Flood plain(iv) Mushroom rocks are found in:
(a) Deserts (b) River valleys (c) Glaciers(v) Ox bow lakes are found in:
(a) Glaciers (b) River valleys (c) Deserts - Q:-
(i) Mosses and Lichens are found in:
(a) Desertic Vegetation
(b) Tropical evergreen forest
(c) Tundra vegetation
(ii) Thorny bushes are found in:
(a) Hot and humid tropical climate
(b) Hot and dry desertic climate
(c) Cold polar climate
(iii) In tropical evergreen forest, one of the common animals is:
(a) Monkey (b) Girraffe (c) Camel
(iv) One important variety of coniferous forest is:
(a) Rosewood (b) Pine (c) Teak
(v) Steppe grassland is found in
(a) S. Africa (b) Australia (c) Central Asia - Q:-
(i) Toucans are a type of
(a) birds (b) animals (c) crops
(ii) Manioc is the staple food of
(a) Ganga Basin (b) Africa (c) Amazon
(iii) Kolkata is located on the river
(a) Orange (b) Hooghly (c) Bhagirathi
(iv) Deodars and firs are a type of
(a) Coniferous trees (b) Deciduous trees (c) shrubs
(v) Bengal tiger is found in
(a) mountains (b) delta area (c) Amazon - Q:-
(i) Which is NOT a means of communication?
(a) telephone (b) books (c) table
(ii) Which type of road is constructed under the ground?
(a) fly over (b) expressways (c) subways
(iii) Which mode of transport is most suitable to reach an island?
(a) ship (b) train (c) car
(iv) Which vehicle does not pollute the environment
(a) cycle (b) bus (c) aeroplane - Q:-
(i) Ocean water is salty.
(ii) The quality of water is deterioting. - Q:-
(i) The name of one river is hidden in each of the sentences below. Spot it. Example:Mandira, Vijayalakshmi and Surinder are my best friends Answer: Ravi
(a) The snake charmer’s bustee, stables where horses are housed, and the piles of wood, all caught fire accidentally. (Hint: Another name for River Brahmputra)
(b) The conference manager put pad, material for reading and a pencil for each participant (Hint: A distributary on the Ganga-Brahmputra delta)
(c) Either jealousy or anger cause a person’s fall (Hint: Name of a juicy fruit!)
(d) Bhavani germinated the seeds in a pot (Hint: Look for her in West Africa)
(e) “I am a zonal champion now” declared the excited athlete. (Hint: The river that has the biggest basin in the world)
(f) The tiffin box rolled down and all the food fell in dusty potholes. (Hint: Rises in India and journeys through Pakistan)
(g) Malini leaned against the pole when she felt that she was going to faint. (Hint: Her delta in Egypt is famous)
(h) Samantha mesmerised everybody with her magic tricks. (Hint: London is situated on her estuary)
(i) “In this neighbourhood, please don’t yell! Owners of these houses like to have peace”. Warned my father when we moved into our new flat”. (Hint: colour!)
(j) ‘Write the following words, Marc!’ “On”, “go”, “in”........ said the teacher to the little boy in KG Class. (Hint: Rhymes with ‘bongo’) Now make some more on your own and ask your classmates to spot the hidden name. You can do this with any name: that of a lake, mountains, trees, fruits, school items etc. - Q:-
(i) Sahara is located in which part of Africa
(a) eastern (b) northern (c) western
(ii) Sahara is what type of desert
(a) cold (b) hot (c) mild
(iii) The Ladakh desert is mainly inhabited by
(a) Christians and Muslims
(b) Buddhists and Muslims
(c) Christians and Buddhists
(iv) Deserts are characterised by
(a) scanty vegetation
(b) heavy precipitation
(c) low evaporation(v) Hemis in the Ladakh is a famous
(a) temple (b) church (c) monastery
(vi) Egypt is famous for growing
(a) wheat (b) maize (c) cotton - Q:-
(i) Today’s world is shrinking.
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FOR FUN
Desert Game
This is a class room activity involving all the students. The teacher will create a list of desert creatures. The number of the creatures should be same as the number of students in the class. The creatures can be picked up from the categories of mammals, birds and reptiles. Mammals can include – camel, yak, fox, sheep, goat, antelope... Birds – raven, eagle, vulture, turkey... Reptiles – snakes ... Assign one desert creature to each student. Ask the student to write three characteristics of the creature on plain sheet of paper. (students can use index cards of size 10 cm × 15 cm). Questions such as - in what type of deserts it is
found? Major adaptation? Use to man? These characteristics will be used as clues in the guessing game. On the board make three columns – mammals, birs and reptiles. Paste a sheet of paper in the column under the particular category. The class can be divided in three to four groups. They will compete against each other in the ‘desert game’. Each group now
takes turn in guessing the correct answer. Explain to the class that they have to guess what animal matches the characteristics listed on the paper. For example:
• Animal of hot desert
• Has double set of eyelashes to keep away the sand
• The hide is used for making water bottles
The correct answer is ‘camel’. Within the group there will be a student who has prepared the card. That student should not answer. Ten points are awarded for the correct answer. This game will enable students to understand the desert. You can play the same game by taking different types of fruits, flora and the clothes the people wear. - Q:-
(i) Oasis (a) Libya
(ii) Bedouins (b) monastery
(iii) Oil (c) glacier
(iv) Gangri (d) depressions with water
(v) Lamayuru (e) cold desert
(f) Sahara
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