Class 7 Geography
Question 1: The rainforests are depleting.
Answer: Due to developmental activities, the forests are being destroyed. This is the reason for depletion of rainforests.
Question 2: Paddy is grown in the Ganga-Brahmaputra plains.
Answer: Because rice requires sufficient amount of water to grow.
Question 3: Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin is located.
Answer: South America
Question 4: What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin.
Answer: Tapioca, pineapple, sweet potato, coffee, maize, cocoa.
Question 5: Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon.
Answer: Toucans, humming birds and bird of paradise.
Question 6: What are the major cities located on the River Ganga.
Answer: Allahabad, Kanpur, Lucknow, Varanasi, Patna and Kolkata.
Question 7: Where is the one-horned rhinoceros found?
Answer: Brahmaputra plain.
Question 8: Toucans are a type of
Answer: (a) Birds
Question 9: Manioc is the staple food of
Answer: (c) Amazon
Question 10: Kolkata is located on the river
Answer: (b) Hooghly
Question 11: Deodars and firs are a type of
Answer: (a) Coniferous trees
Question 12: Bengal tiger is found in
Answer: (b) Delta area
Column I | Column II |
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(i) Cotton textile | (a) Assam |
(ii) Maloca | (b) Terrace farming |
(iii) Piranha | (c) Sericulture |
(iv) Silkworm | (d) Slanting roof |
(v) Kaziranga | (e) Ganga plain |
(f) Varanasi | |
(g) Fish |
Answer: (i) f, (ii) d, (iii) g, (iv) c, (v) a
(a) On an outline map of the Indian subcontinent, draw the rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra from the source to the mouth. Also show the important tributaries of both the rivers.
Answer:
(b) On the political map of South America, draw the equator. Mark the countries through which the equator passes.
Answer:
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