1. What is the east-west extent of India?
2. How does the local time change?
3. What is a peninsula?
4. Name the two important hill ranges that lie in the peninsula plateau.
5. What are called polyps?
6. What is the difference between the western coastal plains and the eastern coastal plains?
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(a) Major physical divisions of India:
The Himalayas
The Northern Great Plains
The Peninsular Plateau
The Coastal Plains
The Islands
(b) Countries sharing land boundaries with India:
Pakistan
Afghanistan
China
Nepal
Bhutan
Myanmar
Bangladesh
(c) (i) Narmada
(ii) Tapi (Tapti)
(d) Delta formed by Ganga and Brahmaputra: Sunderban.
(e) States: 28, Union Territories: 07.
States of Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory of Chandigarh have a common capital at Chandigarh.
(f) Large number of people live in the Northern plains because of the following reasons:
Fertile land provides facilities for agriculture. It sustains more people.
Means of transport and communication are developed here. They provide mobility to people.
Opportunities for employment exist in the plains.
Water is easily available.
Industries provide employment (Agro-based industries)
(g) Lakshadweep is a coral island because of the following reasons:
Climate and seawater is suitable for the growth of polyps.
Their skeletons pile up and form islands.
Answer:
1. From east-west India extents between 68°7E and 97°25E longitude.
2. The local time changes by four minutes for every one degree of longitude.
3. A piece of land surrounded by water is called as peninsula.
4. The two important hill ranges that lie in the peninsula plateau are: The Aravali range
The vindhyan range.
5. Polyps are tissue growths that most often look like small, flat bumps or tiny mushroom- like stalks.
6. Eastern coastal plains is between the bay of bengal in the east and the Eastern ghats to it's west . Western coastal plain is between the Arabian sea and the Western ghats .
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