(i) There is scanty vegetation in the deserts.
(ii) People of the Sahara desert wear heavy robes.
(i) There is low vegetation in the deserts due to the unfavourable climatic conditions for the flora world to grow there. The desert either have extreme heat or extreme cold climate and receives low amount of rainfall which is not suitable for the vegetation to grow.
(ii) People of the sahara desert wear heavy robes for the protection against dust storms and hot winds. Sahara is a hot desert therefore dust storms and hot winds of containing sand is common there. It also help them in the protection from sun rays or heat.
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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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
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(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) 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) Ocean water is salty.
(ii) The quality of water is deterioting. - 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
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(i) Man modifies his environment
(ii) Plants and animals depend on each other
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(i) Collect pictures and photographs of forests and grasslands of different parts of world. Write one sentence below each picture.
(ii) Make a collage of rainforest, grassland and coniferous forests. - 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) 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.
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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) Caspian Sea (a) Largest lake
(ii) Tide (b) Periodic rise and fall of water
(iii) Tsunami (c) Strong seismic waves
(iv) Ocean currents (d) Streams of water moving along definite paths(e) Water cycle
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(i) On an outline map of the Indian Sub-continent, draw the rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra from the source to the mouth. Also show the important tributaries of both the rivers.
(ii) On the political map of South America, draw the equator. Mark the countries through which the equator passes. - Q:-
(i) Today’s world is shrinking.
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(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
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