2. What do you understand by "Mummies" of Egypt?
3. Why do the poles experience about six months day and six months night?
4. Distinguish between a map and a plan.
5. Brief about Bhimbetka?
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Answer:
1. A mummy is either a preserved dead body or a British person's mom, ideally not at the same time. In ancient Egypt, preserving a body as a mummy was part of a religious belief in an afterlife. ... Most mummies were wrapped in cloth and treated with chemicals, after having their internal organs removed.
2. The poles experience about six months of day and six months of night due to the tilt of the earth on its axis. Because of this tilt, each pole is tilted towards and away from the sun for about six months each. When the North Pole is tilted towards the sun, it experiences continuous daylight for six months.
3. A map is a representation or a drawing of the earth's surface or a part of it drawn on a flat surface according to a scale. A plan is a drawing of a small area on a large scale.
4. The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site in central India that spans the prehistoric Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, as well as the historic period. It exhibits the earliest traces of human life in India and evidence of Stone Age starting at the site in Acheulian times.