Q5. Answer in one sentence.
1. How many types of natural vegetation of Asia can be classified? Mention them.
2. What is disaster?
3. Write any two countries where Tropical monsoon type of climate is found?
4. What is the full form of NDMF?
5. Where does Malay Archipelago lie?
Answers
Answer:
1) Vegetation regions can be divided into five major types: forest, grassland, tundra, desert, and ice sheet. Climate, soil, the ability of soil to hold water, and the slope, or angle, of the land all determine what types of plants will grow in a particular region.
Answer 1
Following natural vegetables found in Asia.
- The Tundra
- The Taiga
- Temperate Grasslands, the Steppes
- Mediterranean Scrubland and Forest
- Desert Vegetation
- Monsoon Region
- Tropical Rainforest
- Vegetation in the Mountains
Answer 2
A Disaster is an event or series of events, which gives rise to casualties and damage or loss of properties, infrastructure, environment, essential services or means of livelihood on such a scale which is beyond the normal capacity of the affected community to cope with.
Answer 3
The tropical monsoon climate is usually found within countries in the south and southeast Asia region between the latitude of 10 degrees north and the Tropic of Cancer. These regions include India, Philippines, the northern coast of Australia and Hainan Island of China.
Answer 4
Full form of NDMF is
NATIONAL DISASTER-MITIGATION-FUND
Answer 5
Malay Archipelago, largest group of islands in the world, consisting of the more than 17,000 islands of Indonesia and the approximately 7,000 islands of the Philippines. The regional name “East Indies” is sometimes used as a synonym for the archipelago.