Types of Rocks — Geography STD 7 — Question

Collect information about the Great Barrier Reef from encyclopedias or the Internet and write a diary describing all you have learned about it in your scrapbook.

In the outline map of Africa, mark the features, and answer the questions.

1. Colour dark green the area where equatorial forests are found. What difficulties were faced by the explorers because of rivers and natural vegetation of the region?
2. Mark the area that is called an ‘open-air zoo’. Name the vegetation of this region.
3. Mark the Sahara Desert. Name a plant that best survives in the climate of this region. What are the characteristic features of this plant that help it survive?
4. Mark the area north of the Atlas Mountains where the Mediterranean climate is found. Which crops does this climate support?

Why do we need industries?

State three causes that have led to an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Collect information and pictures of the albatross. Stick the pictures in your scrapbook and write the information alongside.

We often leave the lights switched on and fans running when we are not in the room. We switch on the air-conditioning even though we don’t really need it. We insist on being dropped to school in the car every day. Thus, we waste valuable energy which is generally produced by burning coal and petroleum. As you know, the burning of these fuels release gases that pollute the atmosphere.
Make a list of the similar things that we do without realizing that we are destroying the environment. Think of the ways that we can behave differently.

Give an account of the use of solar energy.

How are igneous rocks formed?

Collect information and pictures of the krill. Stick the pictures in your scrapbook and write the information alongside.

Which three ways are used to represent the scale of a map?