(a) Why is Lakshadweep known as a Coral island?
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What were the Questions that Upanishadic thinkers wanted to answer?
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Name the neighbouring countries of India.
What are the major landforms of India?
What are Biosphere?
Tell something about Harappan culture?
What is democracy?
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a. Lakshadweep islands are called as the coral islands, because they have been formed from corals. Corals are formed from the skeletons of tiny marine animals called polyps.
1. India shares borders with several sovereign countries; it shares land borders with China, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan in the north or north-west, and with Bangladesh and Myanmar in the east.
3. The biosphere is a global ecosystem composed of living organisms (biota) and the abiotic (nonliving) factors from which they derive energy and nutrients. Earth's environmental spheres. Earth's environment includes the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the lithosphere, and the biosphere.
4. The Indus River Valley Civilization, also known as Harappan civilization, developed the first accurate system of standardized weights and measures, some as accurate as to 1.6 mm. Harappans created sculpture, seals, pottery, and jewelry from materials, such as terracotta, metal, and stone.
5. The word democracy itself means rule by the people. A democracy is a system where people can change their rulers in a peaceful manner and the government is given the right to rule because the people say it may.
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