Geography

Water

Question:

For Fun
Be a Detective
1. 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 estuaiy)
(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)    â€˜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.
TAns. eesta, (b) Padma, (c) Orange, (d) Niger, (e) Amazon, (f)    Indus, (g) Nile,
(h) Thames, (i) yellow,(j) Conga.

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Water

Q 1.

What is the significance of World Water Day?

Q 2.

What do you mean by salinity? [V. Imp.]

Q 3.

How are spring and neap tides formed.

Q 4.

What happened to the Indira point during the tsunami of 2004?

Q 5.

Answer the following questions briefly.
(a) What is precipitation?
(b) What is water cycle?
(c) What are the factors affecting the height of the waves?
(d) Which factors affect the movement of ocean water?
(e) What are tides and how are they caused?
(f) What are ocean currents?

Q 6.

Give reasons:
(a) Ocean water is salty.
(b) The quality of water is deteriorating.

Q 7.

Write a note on the importance of water. [V. Imp.]

Q 8.

What is the average salinity of the oceans?

Q 9.

What happens during low tide?

Q 10.

What happens during high Ode?        [Imp.]

Q 11.

What is terrarium?

Q 12.

Which type of water do the ocean bodies and the seas contain?

Q 13.

How are tides caused?

Q 14.

What is the salinity of Dead sea?

Q 15.

How do we classify ocean movements? Explain. [V. Imp.]

Q 16.

What is Tsunami? [V. Imp.]

Q 17.

Name one warm curreht and one cold current.

Q 18.

Why do swimmers float in Dead Sea?

Q 19.

Write a brief note on Tsunami.  

Q 20.

How are high tides important?[V. Imp.]

Q 21.

Explain water cycle with a neat and labelled diagram.

Q 22.

What are waves? Write a short note on it

Q 23.

Give an account of ocean currents. [Imp.]

Q 24.

For Fun
Be a Detective
1. The name of one river is hidden in each of the sentences below. Spot it. Example: Mandira, Vijayalakshmi and Surinder are my best friends