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Chapter 1 – Environment
The environment is everything surrounding us. It can be living or non-living things and includes physical, chemical and other natural forces. Balance in nature is maintained by the interaction between biotic components with that of abiotic components. The environment is divided into two broad parts, the Natural environment and the Human environment.
Answer the following questions briefly.
a. What is an ecosystem?
b. What do you mean by the natural environment?
c. Which are the major components of the environment?
d. Give four examples of a human-made environment.
e. What is the lithosphere?
f. Which are the two major components of the biotic environment?
g. What is the biosphere?
Tick the correct answer.
a. Which is not a natural ecosystem?
(a) Desert
(b) Aquarium
(c) Forest.
b. Which is not a component of the human environment?
(a) Land
(b) Religion
(c) Community.
c. Which is a human-made environment?
(a) Mountain
(b) Sea
(c) Road.
d. Which is a threat to the environment?
(a) Growing plant
(b) Growing population
(c) Growing crops.
Give reasons:
a. Man modifies his environment
b. Plants and animals depend on each other.
Very Short Answer Type Questions
a. What is the environment?
b. Why is our environment changing?
c. What are the basic components of the natural environment?
d. What does the lithosphere provide us?
e. Name different types of water bodies.
f. How is the atmosphere important for us?
g.What do you see in the deserts? Name some animals.
h. What is the barter system?
i. Distinguish between the biotic and abiotic environments with examples.
j. How is the environment important for us?
Chapter 2 – Inside Our Earth
Inside Our Earth Geography covers topics such as the Interior of the Earth, Rocks and Minerals, Types of Rocks, Types of Minerals, etc. For students, it is essential to know the facts about the planet on which we live. Each topic is explained beautifully with proper illustrative examples.
Answer the following questions briefly.
a. What are the three layers of the earth?
b. What is a rock?
c.Name three types of rocks.
d. How are extrusive and intrusive rocks formed?
e. What do you mean by a rock cycle?
f. What are the uses of rocks?
g.What are metamorphic rocks?
Tick the correct answer.
(i) The rock which is made up of molten magma is
(a) Igneous
(b) Sedimentary
(c) Metamorphic.
(ii) The innermost layer of the earth is
(a) Crust
(b) Core
(c) Mantle.
(iii) Gold, petroleum and coal are example of
(a) Rocks
(b) Minerals
(c) Fossils.
(iv) Rocks which contain fossils are
(a) Sedimentary rocks
(b) Metamorphic rocks
(c) Igneons rocks.
(v) The thinnest layer of the earth is
(a) Crust
(b) Mantle
(c) Core.
Give reasons:
a. We cannot go to the centre of the earth.
b. Sedimentary rocks are formed from sediments.
c. Limestone is changed into marble.
Very Short Answer Type Questions
a. What is called the uppermost layer of the earth?
b.What is the special feature of this layer?
c.Name the main mineral constituent of the continental mass.
d.Name the constituents of the oceanic crust.
e.What is the radius of the core?
f.What are the main constituents of the core?
g.What is the earth’s crust made of?
h.What are called igneous rocks?
i.What are fossils?
j.What happens when igneous and sedimentary rocks go under great heat and pressure?
Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth
Our Changing Earth Chapter 3 of Class 7 Geography helps students understand the earth’s movements, how it is related to force, and how an earthquake happens and explains terms like a volcano, focus, epicentre, etc. It further teaches concepts related to sea waves, rivers, ice and wind.
Answer the following questions briefly:
a.Why do the plated move?
b.What are exogenic and endogenic forces?
c.What is erosion?
d.How are flood plains formed?
e.What are sand dunes?
f.How are the beaches formed?
g.What are the ox-bow lakes?
Tick the correct answer:
(i) Which is not an erosional feature of sea waves?
(a) Cliff
(b) Beach
(c) Sea cave.
(ii) The depositional feature of a glacier is
(a) Flood plain
(b) Beach
(c) Moraine.
(iii) Which is caused by the sudden movements of the Earth ?
(a) Volcano
(b) Folding
(c) Flood plain.
(iv) Mushroom rocks are found In
(a) Deserts
(b) River valleys
(c) Glaciers.
(v) Ox bow lakes are found In
(a) Glaciers
(b) River valleys
(c) Deserts.
Give reasons:
a. Some rocks have the shape of a mushroom.
b.Flood plains are very fertile.
c.Sea caves are turned into stacks.
d.Buddings collapse due to earthquakes.
Very Short Answer Type Questions
a. What do you know about the lithospheric plates?
b.How do the lithospheric plates move?
c.What is a volcano?
d.Define focus’ and ‘epicentre’.
e.Name the three types of earthquake waves.
f.What is a seismograph?
g.Name the scale on which the magnitude of the earthquake is measured.
h.Which earthquake is classified as a major earthquake?
i.Where is Victoria Falls located?
j .What is delta?
Chapter 4 – Air
Air is the generic name for the mixture of gases that makes up the Earth’s atmosphere. This gas is primarily nitrogen, mixed with oxygen, water vapour, argon, carbon dioxide and trace gases. Air is essential for all living beings for survival. Chapter 4 – Air of CBSE Class 7 Geography elaborately explains the composition of the atmosphere, the structure of the atmosphere, weather and climate, etc.
Answer the following questions briefly.
(i) What is atmosphere?
(ii) Which two gases make the bulk of the atmosphere?
(iii) Which gas creates greenhouse effect in the atmosphere?
(iv) What is weather?
(v) Name three types of rainfall
(vi) What is air pressure?
Tick the correct answer:
(i) Which of the following gases protects us from harmful sun rays?
(a) Carbon dioxide
(b) Nitrogen
(c) Ozone.
(ii) The most important layer of the atmosphere is
(a) Troposphere
(b)Thermosphere
(c) Mesosphere.
(iii) Which of the following layers of the atmosphere is free from clouds?
(a) Trosphere
(b) Stratosphere
(c) Mesosphere.
(iv) As we go up the layers of the atmosphere, the pressure
(a) Increases
(b) Decreases
(c) Ramains the same.
(v) When precipitation comes down to the earth in the liquid form, it is called
(a) Cloud
(b) Rain
(c) Snow.
Give reasons:
a.Wet clothes take longer time to dry on a humid day.
b.Amount of insolation decreases from equator torwards poles?
Very Short Type Questions
a. How does carbon dioxide create green house effect?
b.What is the significance of greenhouse gas?
c.What happens when air is heated?
d.What is the nature of cold air?
e.Why do green plants use carbon dioxide?
f.What is an important feature of Stratosphere?
g.How is ozone important for us?
h.What is temperature?
i.What is insolation?
Chapter 5 – Women Change the World
Water is one of the most important substances on earth. All plants and animals must have water to survive. If there was no water, there would be no life on earth. Water that is safe for drinking is called potable water. There are various sources from where we can collect water. The chapters also discuss water distribution, ocean circulation, tides, waves and ocean currents.
Answer the following questions briefly.
- How do you think stereotypes, about what women can or cannot do, affect women’s right to equality?
- List one reason why learning the alphabet was so important to women like Rashsundari Devi, Ramabai, and Rokeya.
- “Poor girls drop out of school because they are not interested in getting an education”. Re-read the last paragraph on page 62 and explain why this statement is not true.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
a. What is the percentage of women engaged in agricultural work in our country?
b.What does agricultural work mean to these women?
c.When we think of a farmer we only think of a man.
d.Why was Ramabai given the title ‘Pandita’?
e.How did women support men in the pottery trade?
f. Mention any one stereotype about what women can or cannot do?
g. How did Laxmi Lakra break the stereotype that only men could be engine drivers?
h.What changes came to be seen with the emergence of new ideas about education and learning in the 19th century?
Chapter 6 – Natural Vegetation and Wildlife
Natural vegetation and wildlife are the plants and animals that survive naturally in a specific region and are part of the biosphere. The concepts that students will get to learn from Chapter 6 are different types of natural vegetation, forests and grasslands. These topics are explained in detail with proper examples so that students can memorise them for a more extended period.
1.Answer the following questions briefly.
a.Which are the two factors on which the growth of vegetation mostly depends?
b Which are the three broad categories of natural vegetation?
c.Name the two hardwood trees commonly found in tropical evergreen forest
d.In which part of the world is tropical deciduous forests found?
e.In which climatic conditions are citrus fruits cultivated?
f.Mention the uses of coniferous forest.
g.In which part of the world is seasonal grassland found?
Tick the correct answer.
(a) Mosses and Lichens are found in
(i) Desertic vegetation
(ii) Tropical vegetation
(iii) Tundra vegetation.
(b) Thorny bushes are found in
(i) Hot and humid tropical climate
(ii) Hot and dry desertic climate
(iii) Cold polar climate.
(c) In tropical evergreen forest, one of the common animals is
(i) Monkey
(ii) Giraffe
(iii) Camel.
(d) One important variety of coniferous forest is
(i) Rosewood
(ii) Pine
(iii) Teak.
(e) Steppe grassland is found in
(i) S. Africa
(ii) Australia
(iii) Central Asia.
Give reasons:
a.The animals in the polar region have thick fur and thick skin.
b Tropical deciduous trees shed their leaves in the dry season.
c.The type and thickness of vegetation changes from place to place.
Very Short Type Questions
a. How is height of land and the character of vegetation related with each other?
b. Where are shrubs found?
c. Why do trees of tropical evergreen forests not shed their leaves altogether?
d.What is the special feature of tropical evergreen forests?
e.Name the trees found in the tropical deciduous forests.
f .Where are temperate evergreen forests located?
g.Why are only citrus fruits cultivated in Mediterranean regions?
h.Mention one special feature of coniferous forests.
i.Name the animals found, in the coniferous forests.
j.Name the animals found in tropical grasslands.
Chapter 7 – Human Environment–Settlement, Transport and Communication
Settlement, Transport and Communication Chapter 7 discusses topics related to settlement and its types, different types of transport and services, types of communication, etc. Settlements are places where people build their homes. Settlements can be permanent or temporary. The four major means of transport are roadways, railways, waterways and airways.
Answer the following questions briefly.
a.What are the four means of transport?
b.What do you understand by the term ‘settlement’?
c.Which are the activities practiced by the rural people?
d.Mention any two merits of railways.
e.What do you understand by communication?
f.What is the mass media?
Tick the correct answer:
(a) Which is not a means of communication?
(i) telephone
(ii) books
(iii) table.
(b) Which type of road is constructed under the ground?
(i) flyover
(ii)expressways
(iii) subways.
(c) Which mode of transport is most suitable to reach an island?
(i) ship
(ii)train
(iii) car.
(d) Which vehicle does not pollute the environment?
(i) cycle
(ii)bus
(iii)aeroplane.
Give reasons:
a. Today’s world is shrinking.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
a. Why did settlements grow near the river valleys?
b.What are called temporary settlements?
c.What do people living in temporary settlements practice?
d.Why do people who rear animals move from place to place?
e.Differentiate a compact settlement from a scattered settlement.
f.Where are scattered settlements found?
g.Name the materials used in building houses in rural areas?
h.Name some animals used for carrying goods in India.
i.Where do you find a dense network of roads?
j.What has replaced the steam engine?
Chapter 8 – Human Environment Interactions (The Tropical and the Subtropical Region)
Human-Environment Interactions The Tropical and the Subtropical Region Human-Environment Interactions The Tropical and Subtropical Region covers topics about the life of people in the different natural regions of the world. Some topics you will get to learn are Life in the Amazon basin, Rainforests, Life in rainforests, Life in the Ganga Brahmaputra Basin, etc.
Answer the following questions briefly:
- Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin in located.
- What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin?
- Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rain forests of the Amazon.
- What are the major cities located on the river Ganga?
- Where are the one-homed rhinoceros found?
Tick the correct answer:
(a) Toucans are a type of
(i) birds
(ii) animals
(iii) crops.
(b) Manioc is the staple food of
(i) Ganga Basin
(ii) Africa
(iii) Amazon.
(c) Kolkata is located on the river
(i) Orange
(ii) Hooghly
(iii) Bhagirathi.
(d) Deodars and firs are a type of
(i) Coniferous trees
(ii) Deciduous trees
(iii) Shrubs.
(e) Bengal tiger is found in
(i) Mountains
(ii) Delta area
(iii) Amazon.
Give reasons:
a.The rainforests are depleting.
b.Paddy is grown in the Ganga-Brahmaputra plains.
4.VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
- What type of vegetation grows in the Amazon forest?
- Name the animals Found in the Amazon forest.
- What do men and women of the rainforest do?
- What do the people of the rainforest grow?
- Name the cash crops that people of the rainforest grow.
- What is the population density of West Bengal and Bihar? .
- What is susu? What does its presence indicate?
- How and why are terraces built?
- By what names is the river Brahmaputra known in different places.
- What leads to the pollution of the rivers?
Chapter 9 – Life in the Temperate Grasslands
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs, and consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. It is classified as a hot desert or cold desert. Extreme temperatures, combined with little rainfall, make desert life difficult for people, plants and animals.
Answer the following questions briefly.
a.What are the Temperate Grasslands of North America called?
b.What are the cattle farms in the North American Grasslands known as?
c.Name the rivers that drain the velds.
d.When is the rainy season in the Velds.
e.What is the major occupation of the people of the South African grasslands?
Tick the correct answer:
(a) River Mississippi drains
(i) Canada
(ii) Africa
(iii) USA.
(b) Drakensberg Mountainsare to the west of
(i) Prairies
(ii) Velds
(iii) Pampas.
(c) Merino is a species of
(i) Fish
(ii) Elephant
(iii) Sheep.
(d) Kimberley is famous for
(i) diamonds
(ii)silver
(iii) platinum.
3.Give reasons:
- The Prairies are known as the ‘Granaries of the world’.
- Rise of the wool industry in the Velds.
- Science Chapter 10 Life in the Deserts
Chapter 10 – Life in the Deserts
Answer the following questions briefly:
(a) What are the two types of deserts found in the world?
(b) In which continent is the Sahara desert located?
(c) What are the climatic conditions of the Ladakh desert?
(d) What mainly attracts tourists to Ladakh?
(e) What type of clothes the people of the Sahara desert wear?
(f) Name the trees that grow in Ladakh
The people of the Sahara desert wear heavy clothes.
(f) Scanty patches of grasses and shrubs, groves of willows and poplars, fruit trees such as apples, apricots and walnuts.
Tick the correct answer:
(i) Sahara is located in which part of Africa?
(a) eastern
(b) northern
(c) western.
(ii) Sahara is what type of dessert?
(a) cold
(b) hot
(c) mild.
(iii) The Ladakh desert is mainly inhabited by ………..
(a) Christians and Muslims
(b) Buddhists and Muslims
(c) Christians and Buddhists.
(iv) Deserts are characterized by ……………..
(a) Scanty vegetation
(b)heavy precipitation
(c) low evaporation.
(v) Hemis in Ladakh is famous ………………
(a) temple
(b) church
(c) monastery.
(vi) Egypt is famous for growing
(a) wheat
(b) maize
(c) cotton.
Give reasons:
a.There is scanty vegetation in the deserts.
b.People of the Sahara desert wear heavy robes.
VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS
- How many countries are touched by the Sahara desert? Name them.
- What are the two characteristic features of a desert?
- Mention the day and night temperatures of the Sahara desert.
- What vegetation is found in the Sahara desert?
- Name the two nomadic tribes living in the Sahara desert.
- Name the animals reared by the Bedouins and Tuaregs.
- What do these animals provide them?
- Name the countries associated with the discovery of oil
- Ladakh is made up of two words. Mention these words with their meaning.
- Where is Ladakh located?
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