Geography

Human Environment Interactions: The Tropical and Subtropical Region

Question:

Answer the following questions briefly:
(a) Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin in located.
(b) What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin?
(c) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rain forests of the Amazon.
(d) What are the major cities located on the river Ganga?
(e) Where is the one-homed rhinoceros found?

Answer:

(a) South America.
(b) The people of the Amazon Basin grow tapioca, pine apple and sweet potato. Cash crops such as coffee, maize and cocoa are also grown.
(c) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rain forests of the Amazon.
(d) The major cities located on the river Ganga are Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata.
(e) The one-homed rhinoceros is found in the Brahmaputra plain.

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Human Environment Interactions: The Tropical and Subtropical Region

Q 1.

What leads to the pollution of the rivers?

Q 2.

What do the people of the rainforest grow?

Q 3.

Name the river on which Taj Mahal is situated?

Q 4.

How can you say that the life of the people of the Amazon basin is changing?[Imp.]

Q 5.

What is the population density of West Bengal and Bihar? .

Q 6.

Name the cash crops that people of the rainforest grow.

Q 7.

Name the animals Found in the Amazon forest.

Q 8.

Give reasons:
(i) The rainforests are depleting.
(ii) Paddy is grown in the Ganga-Brahmaputra plains.

Q 9.

By what names is the river Brahmaputra known in different places.

Q 10.

What type of vegetation grows in the Amazon forest?

Q 11.

Write a short note on the climate of the Amazon Basin.

Q 12.

What do men and women of the rainforest do?

Q 13.

What do you know about the location of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin? Mention the climate of this Basin.

Q 14.

What is the main activity of the people of the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin? Give an account of it.

Q 15.

What do you know about the people of the rainforest?   [V- Imp.]

Q 16.

How and why are terraces built?

Q 17.

Answer the following questions briefly:
(a) Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin in located.
(b) What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin?
(c) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rain forests of the Amazon.
(d) What are the major cities located on the river Ganga?
(e) Where is the one-homed rhinoceros found?

Q 18.

How is the rainforest of the Amazon basin rich infauna?

Q 19.

What is susu? What does its presence indicate?

Q 20.

The Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin has varied topography. How does it affect the distribution of population there?   [V. Imp.]

Q 21.

How is tourism an important activity in the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin?

Q 22.

Name the cash crops grown in the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin.

Q 23.

What do you know about the wildlife of the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin?