Natural Vegetation — Geography STD 10 — Question

Name any three trees found in monsoon deciduous forests and state one use of each of these trees.

Pulses so widely grown all over India.

Name the major agro-based and mineral based industries in India.

What is the most important feature of the tropical monsoon type of climate?

Mention one advantage and one disadvantage each of inland waterways.

What is dibbling method of sowing seeds? State any one merit and one demerit of this method.

What are mango showers? Why are they called so?

Western Rajasthan receives no rain from the Arabian Sea branch of the South West Monsoon winds.

The road transport ministry has sanctioned around Rs 16,000 crore for construction of over 600km of the 1,748- km Frontier Highway in Arunachal Pradesh, indicating govt's priority to improve connectivity and infrastructure along the border, reports Dipak Dash. The greenfield highway (NH 913) will run close to the India-Tibet-China- Myanmar border-barely 20 km from it at several locations.
(a) Why has India decided to make this project on urgent basis?
(b) Why road transport developed better than other mode of transport in India?

Give the location of the Bhilai Steel Plant? With which country's help it was started?