Natural Vegetation — Geography STD 10 — Question

What advantages do railways have over roadways?

Write in short about Coimbatore cane.

Human beings are responsible for soil erosion.

Name any two man-made and two natural features seen in gird square 6912.

Bhakra-Nangal, Hirakud are boon to India.

With reference to well irrigation, answer the following question:
Give two advantages and two disadvantages of wells.

Though India is agricultural country, land under irrigation is less than 37%. Explain.

Study the climatic data provided below and answer the questions that follow:

Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Station A (sea level)
Temperature (°C)	24.4	28.4	20.7	29.3	30.0	29.9	29.8	27.8	26.9	26.3	25.1	24.8
Rainfall (cm)	0.1	0.1	0.5	0.6	3.8	26.6	29.6	30.5	26.5	11.9	1.1	0.2
Station B (800 m above sea level)
Temperature (°C)	8.1	8.9	15.6	20.1.	25.2	24.3	24.1	22.7	20.6	18.4	14.1	9.6
Rainfall (cm)	0.4	0.3	0.3	1.1	1.3	3.2	7.7	1.3	5.8	0.7	0.4	0.3

(i) Calculate the annual range of temperature of Station A Suggest a reason why the range is small one.
(ii) Which of the two Stations has the lower temperature? Why?
(iii) Calculate the annual rainfall of Station B.

What does the following mean?
(i) Black vertical line between Eastings 29 and 30
(ii) Black horizontal line between Northings 03 and 04

What are the different modes of transport? Which among them is the most developed and the most underdeveloped?