WATER BODIES
EXERCISES
GEOGRAPHY-G
1. Answer the following questions in brief.
a. What are Oceans?
b. Where is the Mariana Beach? Describe it.
c. Where is the Indian Ocean? Which part is the Arabian Sea?
d. Explain two major causes of water pollution.
e. Name the various types of water features found on the earth's surface along
with two examples of each.
Answers
Answer:
1. The ocean is a continuous body of salt water that covers more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Ocean currents govern the world's weather and churn a kaleidoscope of life. ... Smaller ocean regions such as the Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the Bay of Bengal are called seas, gulfs, and bays.
2. The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.
3. The Arabian Sea is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran, and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Peninsula, on the southeast by the Laccadive Sea, on the southwest by the Somali Sea, and on the east by India.
4. Here are the few major causes of water pollution: Sewage And Waste Water: Sewage, garbage and liquid waste of households, agricultural lands and factories are discharged into lakes and rivers. Dumping: Dumping of solid wastes and litters in water bodies causes huge problems.
5. The world's water exists naturally in different forms and locations: in the air, on the surface, below the ground and in the oceans. Just 2.5% of the Earth's water is freshwater, and most is frozen in glaciers and ice sheets. About 96% of all liquid freshwater can be found underground.
A. An ocean is a body of water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean. These are, in descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans.
B. Marina beach in Chennai along the Bay of Bengal is India's longest and world's second longest beach. This predominantly sandy of nearly 12 kilometers extends from Beasant Nagar in the south to Fort St. George in the north.
C.(1) The Indian Ocean is bounded by Iran, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh to the north; the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands of Indonesia, and Australia to the east; Antarctica to the south; and Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to the west.
(2) Indian Ocean
D. The few major causes of water pollution: Sewage And Waste Water: Sewage, garbage and liquid waste of households, agricultural lands and factories are discharged into lakes and rivers. ... Dumping: Dumping of solid wastes and litters in water bodies causes huge problems.
E. Ocean- Atlantic ocean and pacific ocean; River- Nile river and Amazon river
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