Social Studies Question(1 Marks)

Men hunt and fish along the rivers and women take care of the crops.

Coffee, maize and cocoa.

Sugarcane and jute.

Toucans, humming birds and bird of paradise are the birds that likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazo.

The large apartment like houses called Maloca with a steepy slanting roof.

Dehang, Dahang, Jarnuna, Meghna, Padma etc.

The rivers that drain the Velds are Orange and the Limpopo.

The main crop is paddy. Wheat, maize, sorghum, gram and millets are the other crops that are grown. Cash crops like sugarcane and jute are also grown.

The one-horned rhinoceros is found in the Brahmaputra plain.

The Amazon basin is the largest river basin in the world.

Terraces are built on steep slopes to create flat surfaces on which crops are grown. The slope is removed so that water does not run off rapidly.

It means the number of persons living in one square kilometre of a given area.

Equador, Columbia and Brazil.

These are small rivers that join the main river. The main river along with all its tributaries that drain an area forms a river basin or the catchment area.

The tributaries of rivers Ganga and Brahmaputra together form the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin in the Indian subcontinent.

Equatorial.

The cities of Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata are located along the River Ganga.

Large apartment-like houses called “Maloca” with a steeply slanting roof.

The cities of Allahabad, Kanpur, Varanasi, Lucknow, Patna and Kolkata are famous cities of this basin.

They mainly grow tapioca, pineapple and sweet potato.

They grow tapioca, pineapple and sweet potato.

Amazon Basin is located in South America.

The place where a river flows into another body of water is called the river’s mouth.

Bromeliads are special plants that store water in their leaves. Animals like frogs use them for laying their eggs.

The countries of the basin through which the equator passes are Brazil, Ecuador and Columbia.

The populations density of west Bengal is 904 and that of Bihar is 880.

Animals like monkeys, sloth, ant-eating tapirs, crocodiles, snakes, pythons, anaconda, boa and flesh eating piranha fish are found here.

Kaziranga and Manas wild life sanctuaries are situated in Assam.

Only shade tolerant vegetation grow here.

Meghna, Padma, Dehang, Debang, Yamuna, etc.

The rainy season in the Velds is from November to February.

The cash crops grown by people of Amazon Basin are coffee, maize and cocoa.

Monkeys, sloth and ant-eating tapirs.

The place where a river flows into another water body is called the river’s mouth.

River Yamuna.

The tributaries of the River Ganga are the Ghaghra, the Son, the Chambal, the Gandak, the Kosi.

It means the number of persons that live in one sq. km. of area.

The population density of Uttarakhand is 189 while the density of West Bengal is 1029 and that of Bihar is 1102.

Francisco de Orellana was a Spanish explorer who discovered the Amazon River.

The basin lies in the sub-tropical region that is situated between 10°N to 30°N latitudes.

It is located on the banks of the River Yamuna.