Short answer type questions.
1. What are the major landforms?
2. What is the difference between a mountain and plateau?
3. How are the plains formed?
4. Why are the river plains thickly populated?
5. Why are mountains thinly populated ?
Answers
Answer:
1) Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins. Tectonic plate movement under the Earth can create landforms by pushing up mountains and hills.
2) Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins. Tectonic plate movement under the Earth can create landforms by pushing up mountains and hills.
3) Plains form in many different ways. Some plains form as ice and water erodes, or wears away, the dirt and rock on higher land. Water and ice carry the bits of dirt, rock, and other material, called sediment, down hillsides to be deposited elsewhere. As layer upon layer of this sediment is laid down, plains form.
4) Plains are usually highly fertile and hence most ideal for cultivation. It is very easy to make transport network in the plains. ... Hence, plains are thickly populated.
5)The climate is harsh at the mountain areas. Slopes are steep at the mountains and that reduces the land available for farming.
Answer:
1. Mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains are the four major types of landforms. Minor landforms include buttes, canyons, valleys, and basins.
2. A mountain is any natural elevation of the earth surface. A plateau is an elevated flat land. It is considerably higher than the surrounding area.
3. Some plains form as ice and water erodes, or wears away, the dirt and rock on higher land. Water and ice carry the bits of dirt, rock, and other material, called sediment, down hillsides to be deposited elsewhere. As layer upon layer of this sediment is laid down, plains form.
4. Plains are usually highly fertile and hence most ideal for cultivation. It is very easy to make transport network in the plains. ... Hence, plains are thickly populated.
5. The mountains are thinly populated because of harsh climate. The slopes are steep and soil is lack. These conditions are not favourable for agriculture. So, the mountains are thinly populated.