Biomes — Geography STD 11 Commerce / Arts — Question

(i) Name the Gulf countries
(ii) In which direction do they lie in the Asian continent?

Find out famous examples of gorges and canyons.

Rehabilitation after Earthquakes

Write the names of the major countries that lie in this biome.

Find out examples of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes.

There is a shift of materials in mass movement as well as in transportation from one place to the other. So, why can’t both not be treated as one and the same?

Find out more differences between an ecosystem and a biome. You can use the following points: scale of area occupied, types, flow of nutrients and energy, examples, etc.

Preparedness for Floods

Do you know that India has got the right to mine manganese nodules from the bed of the Indian Ocean from that area which lies beyond the exclusive economic zone. Identify some other resources which are international in nature.

Look at figure 6.1 and answer the following question.
(1)What does the figure show?
(2)In which part of the figure is the ocean shallow? Which human activities can be carried out here?
(3)In which part does deposition of sediments occur?
(4)Where in the figure do you find islands formed due to submerged mountains?
(5)Label the figure with correct names of landforms.
(6)Compare these features with the landforms on the earth.