Geography

Water

Question:

How are tides caused?

Answer:

The strong gravitational pull exerted by the sun and the moon on the earth's surface causes tides.

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Questions and Answers

Water

Q 1.

What is the significance of World Water Day?

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Q 2.

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

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Q 3.

How are spring and neap tides formed.

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Q 4.

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

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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?

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Q 6.

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

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Q 7.

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

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Q 8.

What is the average salinity of the oceans?

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Q 9.

What happens during low tide?

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Q 10.

What happens during high Ode?        [Imp.]

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Q 11.

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

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Q 12.

What is terrarium?

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Q 13.

How are tides caused?

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Q 14.

What is the salinity of Dead sea?

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Q 15.

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

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Q 16.

What is Tsunami? [V. Imp.]

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Q 17.

Name one warm curreht and one cold current.

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Q 18.

Why do swimmers float in Dead Sea?

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Q 19.

Write a brief note on Tsunami.  

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Q 20.

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

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Q 21.

Explain water cycle with a neat and labelled diagram.

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Q 22.

What are waves? Write a short note on it

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Q 23.

Give an account of ocean currents. [Imp.]

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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

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