Question

12. Which relief features of India has 30 percent of the total surface area of country? [1]
13. What method is used to break up the force of wind? [1]
14. In which states has mining caused severe land degradation? [1]
15. Mention the reason due to which red soils looks red

Answer 1

Explanation:

12.mountains

13.shelter belt

14.Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa deforestation due to mining have caused severe land degradation.

15.Their colour is mainly due to ferric oxides occurring as thin coatings on the soil particles while the iron oxide occurs as haematite or as hydrous ferric oxide, the color is red and when it occurs in the hydrate form as limonite the soil gets a yellow colour.

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