Answer the following questions
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.
Give Reasons
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.
Multiple Choice Questios:
Question 1: Sahara is located in which part of Africa
- Eastern
- Northern
- Western
Answer: (c) Western
Question 2: Sahara is what type of desert
- Cold
- Hot
- Mild
Answer: (b) Hot
Question 3: The Ladakh desert is mainly inhabited by
- Christians and Muslims
- Buddhists and Muslims
- Christians and Buddhists
Answer: (b) Buddhists and Muslims
Question 4: Deserts are characterised by
- scanty vegetation
- heavy precipitation
- low evaporation
Answer: (a) scanty vegetation
Question 5: Hemis in the Ladakh is a famous
- Temple
- Church
- Monastery
Answer: (c) Monastery
Question 6: Egypt is famous for growing
- Wheat
- Maize
- Cotton
Answer: (c) Cotton
Map Skills
(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:
