I. Answer the following questions.
a) What type of information does a map show?
b) Mention the maps according to the scale.
c) How do you find directions through the polar star?
d) Which country is the largest producer of Iron ore?
e) Why coal and petroleum are also called mineral fuels?
f) Why Iron is called the backbone of modern civilization?
g) Why Canada is sparsely populated?
h) Why do the trees in the coniferous forests have needle-shaped leaves?
i) Write the location of South America?
j) Give other name for La Plata river basin.
k) How do the tribes in the Amazon river basin obtain food in the forests?
1) Why do the tribes build huts on the stilts? What crops do they grow?
Answers
Answer:
a) A map shows all types of information
b) maps which have smaller scales usually denote larger areas and maps which have larger scales denote smaller areas.
d) china
e) Coal and petroleum are called fossil fuels because they are formed from the preserved remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago and are used as fuels. Fossil fuels and mineral fuels mean the same.
f) Iron ore is called as the backbone of the modern civilization because it provides raw materials ,all types of machinery to run other industries. this sector has helped in the generation of several small scale industries supporting power, transport and communication industries in India.
g) People want to live in areas where land is fertile. Canada does have areas that are very densely populated, like Toronto and Vancouver. Because of this: ... It's actually similar in the US and Russia; most of the population lives in a small number of population centers, with the rest of the country being less populated.
h)Conifers, or cone-bearing trees, evolved to have needles that retain more water and seeds that could hang out until there was enough moisture to take root. ... Needles have lower wind resistance than big, flat leaves, so they're less likely to make the tree fall over during a big storm.
i)South America is the fourth largest continent in size and the fifth largest in population. It is located primarily in the southern hemisphere. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
j)The Río de la Plata basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Plata, Portuguese: Bacia do Prata), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings[1], sometimes called the Platine basin[2] or Platine region,[3] is the 3,170,000-square-kilometre (1,220,000 sq mi)[4] hydrographical area in South America that drains to the Río de la Plata. It includes areas of southeastern Bolivia, southern and central Brazil, the entire country of Paraguay, most of Uruguay, and northern Argentina.
k)Fish: Fresh water dolphin, sting ray, catfish, piranha, eel, freshwater crab, mussels and various other small types of freshwater fish.
Fruit: ...
Grain: ...
Vegetables: ...
Meat: ...
Flavourings and other foods
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