Question

Q. 4 A) Mark and name the following in the outline map given below and
prepare Index. (Any Four)

1) Largest Delta in the world.
2) Habitat of One-horned rhino.
3) Coniferous forests.
4) Habitat of Indian Bustard.
5) Wettest place in the world,
6) Hot desert region.​

Answer 1

Answer:

. 4 A) Mark and name the following in the outline map given below and

prepare Index. (Any Four)

1) Largest Delta in the world.

2) Habitat of One-horned rhino.

3) Coniferous forests.

4) Habitat of Indian Bustard.

5) Wettest place in the world,

6) Hot desert region.

Answer 2

Explanation:

1) Sundarban delta 350 km wide .

2)The preferred habitat of an Indian rhinoceros is alluvial flood plains and areas containing tall grasslands along the foothills of the Himalayas. Formerly, extensively distributed in the Gangetic plains, today the species is restricted to small habitats in Indo-Nepal terai and northern West Bengal and Assam.

3) Coniferous forest, vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in areas that have long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation. The northern Eurasian coniferous forest is called the taiga or the boreal forest.

4) The great Indian bustard inhabits dry grasslands and scrublands on the Indian subcontinent; its largest populations are found in the Indian state of Rajasthan

5) Mawsynram

The quiet, sleepy, yet mesmerising village of Mawsynram trounced Cherrapunji to become the wettest place in the world. Mawsynram receives over 10,000 millimetres of rain in a year.

6)Rajasthan

Hot deserts are mainly found around the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The hot deserts of the world are located between 15° and 30° north or south of the equator, where the air is subsiding or sinking air (find out why deserts are found along the tropics here).