Question

Answer these questions.
1. What are the main types of relief features on the Earth?
3. Name at least one important feature in each part of a river valley,
2. How are mountains useful to human beings?
4. Why are lowlands thickly populated?
5. What is the importance of plateaus?
6. How are plains formed?

Answer 1

ANswer :

1. What are the main types of relief features on the Earth?

➳ The Major types of relief on the earth are  Mountains, Plateaus, and Plains.

2. How are mountains useful to human beings?

➳ Mountains are very useful to humans.

• The mountains are a  huge storehouse of water.

• Reservoirs are made and the water is utilized for the use of people.

• Mountain provides an idyllic site for tourists/sightseers.

• Several sports like paragliding, hang gliding,  river rafting, and skiing are done in the mountains.

• The forests in the mountains provide shelter, fuel, and other products like gum, raisins, etc.  

3. Name at least one important feature in each part of a river valley,

➳ One important feature of Rain Valley is :

• The river valleys are ideal for the cultivation of crops.

4. Why are lowlands thickly populated?

➳ The lowlands are thickly populated because the soil in lowlands Is very fertile and fertile soil provides an adequate place for cultivating crops.

5. What is the importance of plateaus?

➳ Plateaus are rich in  mineral deposits. Because of this feature, many plateaus are present in plateaus.

6. How are plains formed?

➳ Plains are formed by rivers, deposited by water, ice, wind, or formed by erosion by these factors from hills and/or mountains.

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Answer 2

Answer:

→1. Depending up on the elevation and shape landforms or relief feature are called mountains, plateaus and plains.

→2. The snow and the glacier from the mountains supply water to the rivers and lakes. The water is used for irrigation, generation of electricity, drinking, food, and other purposes.

→3. Valleys are defined as the low lying areas of land between hills or mountains, normally with a river or some sort of water course running through them. River valleys are commonly V-shaped, narrow and steeper near to the river's source but become U-shaped, wide and flatter as the river works its way down to sea level.

→4. Plains are thickly populated because the soils are very fertile and fertile soils provide a good place for cultivating crops. Also, the plains are surrounded by rivers and rivers are quite, quite useful.

→5. Plateaus are important because of the following reasons: Plateaus are storehouses of minerals.

→6. Plains are one of the major landforms on earth, where they are present on all continents, and would cover more than one-third of the world's land area.