Life in Desert

NCERT Solution

Answer: (i) – d, (ii) – f, (iii) – a, (iv) – c, (v) – b

Question 1: What are the two types of deserts found in the world?

Answer: Hot desert and cold desert.

Question 2: In which continent is the Sahara desert located?

Answer: Africa

Question 3: What are the climatic conditions of the Ladakh desert?

Answer: It is extremely cold and dry.

Question 4: What mainly attracts tourists to Ladakh?

Answer: Gompas, the meadows and glaciers; and the festivities and ceremonies.

Question 5: What type of clothes the people of the Sahara desert wear?

Answer: Heavy robes.

Question 6: Name the trees that grow in Ladakh.

Answer: Willows and poplars. During summers, trees of apple, apricots and walnuts grow well.

Question 1: There is scanty vegetation in the deserts.

Answer: Due to extreme heat, low rainfall and high rate of moisture evaporation.

Question 2: People of the Sahara desert wear heavy robes.

Answer: As a protection from the dust storms and hot winds.

Question 1: Sahara is located in which part of Africa

Answer: (c) Western

Question 2: Sahara is what type of desert

Answer: (b) Hot

Question 3: The Ladakh desert is mainly inhabited by

Answer: (b) Buddhists and Muslims

Question 4: Deserts are characterised by

Answer: (a) scanty vegetation

Question 5: Hemis in the Ladakh is a famous

Answer: (c) Monastery

Question 6: Egypt is famous for growing

Answer: (c) Cotton

(a) On the outline map of Africa, mark the Sahara desert and any four countries around it.

Answer:

(b) On the outline map of India, mark the Karakoram Range, Zanskar Range, Ladakh and Zozi La Pass

Answer: