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 land-forms. A mountain is any natural elevation of the earth surface.
2. A mountain is any natural elevation of the earth surface. A plateau is an elevated flat land.
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. The river plains are very suitable for human habitation. People get flat land for building houses and for cultivation. The soil of river plains is fertile. Hence people live here and cultivate land for their living.
5. The mountains are thinly populated because of harsh climate. The slopes are step and soil is lack. These conditions are not favourable for agriculture.
Ans 2: Mountain
A large natural elevation of the earths surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large stipp hill.
Plateau
An area of flat land that is higher than the land around it
Ans 3: Plains may have been formed from flowing lava, deposited by water, ice, wind, or formed by erosion by these agents from hills and mountains.
Ans 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.
Ans 5: The mountains arc 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.
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