can anyone give answers of the human environment - settlement transport and communication
it is of cbse class 7 geography
Answers
(i) The four main means of transport are roadways, railways, waterways and airways.
(ii) The term ‘settlement’ implies a place where humans construct their homes permanently or temporarily.
(iii) People in the rural hinterland engage in agriculture, forestry, fishing, trading, craftwork, etc.
(iv) Two important merits of the railways are as follows:
- Railways can transport people and goods faster and cheaper and that too over long distances.
- Railway networks are extensively developed in the plains and they also connect mountainous regions.
(v) Communication is the process of conveying and receiving messages between two or more participants.
(vi) Mass media is the collection of the modes of communication through which one can communicate with a large number of people. Radio, television, newspapers are examples of the phenomenon of mass media.