Geography

Our Changing Earth

Question:

Name the three types of earthquake waves.

Answer:

 

  1. P waves or longitudinal waves
  2. S waves or transverse waves
  3. L wave or surface waves.
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Our Changing Earth

Q 1.

How do the lithospheric plates move?

Q 2.

Name some coastal landforms.

Q 3.

Which earthquake is classified as a major earthquake?

Q 4.

What is a delta?

Q 5.

Name the scale on which the magnitude of the earthquake is measured.

Q 6.

Define focus' and epicentre'. [Imp.]

Q 7.

Name the two processes which wear away the landscape.

Q 8.

Name the three types of earthquake waves.

Q 9.

How are glacial moraines formed?

Q 10.

Answer the following questions briefly:
(i)  Why do the plated move?
(ii)  What are exogenic and endogenic force?
(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 11.

What does the process of erosion and deposition create?

Q 12.

What is a seismograph? [V. Imp.]

Q 13.

Give an account of the work of wind. [V. Imp.]

Q 14.

Give an account of earthquake preparedness.

Q 15.

What do you know about the lithospheric plates?

Q 16.

Mention the work of ice.

Q 17.

What is a volcano?

Q 18.

Give reasons:
(i) Some rocks have a shape of a mushroom.
(ii) Flood plains are very fertile.
(iii) Sea caves are turned into stacks.
(iv) Buddings collapse due to earthquakes.

Q 19.

What is earthquake? What are some common earthquake prediction methods?[V. Imp.]

Q 20.

Where is Victoria Falls located? [Imp.]

Q 21.

Name a few rivers of the world that form a delta?

Q 22.

Activity
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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Q 23.

Explain the work of a river.