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Life in the Deserts-Exercise Questions

 

Chapter- Life in the Deserts

Class-7

Subject-Social Studies 

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A. Answer the following questions:-


1. What are the two types of desserts found in the world?
Answer:- 
 Depending on the temperatures there can be hot deserts or cold deserts.

2. In which continent is the Sahara Desert located? 
Answer:- 
The Sahara Desert is located in Africa.

3.  What are the climatic conditions of the Laddakh?
Answer:-  
a. Due to its higher elevations, intensely cold and dry.
 b. Here, the heat of the sun can be felt intensely as the air in Laddakh is very thin.
c. The date temperatures in summer are just above 0° and the night temperatures are well below −30°C. 
d. Winters in Laddakh are very cold with the temperatures below −40°C most of the time.
e. The region experienced extremely cold winds and intensity hot sunlight.

4. What mainly attracts tourists to Laddakh?
Answer:- 
 Laddakh is a popular spot for tourism within India and abroad.
 The major activity includes visits to the gompass,trecks to see the meadows and glaciers witnessing ceremonies and festivities.

5. What type of clothes do the people of the Sahara Desert wear?
Answer:
People of the Sahara Desert Wear heavy clothes.

6.  Name the types of trees that grow in the Laddakh?
Answer:-
 Scanty patches of grasses and shrubs, groves of willows and poplars are seen in the Laddakh.

B. Tick the correct answer:-

1. Sahara is located in which part of Africa?

 a) Eastern 
b)  Northern
c) Western 

2.  Sahara is what type of dessert?

a)  cold
 b) hot 
c) mild.

3.  The Laddakh desert is mainly inhabited by....

 a)  Christians and Muslims 
b) Buddhists and Muslims
c)  Christians and Buddhists.  

4. Deserts are characterized by.....

 a)  scanty vegetation
 b)  heavy precipitation. 
c)  low evaporation

5.  Hemis in the Laddakh is a famous.....

a)  temple 
b)  church 
c) monastery. 

6. Egypt is famous for growing.......

 a) wehtat 
b) aaize
 c)  cotton 

Answers:-  
1-b,     2-b,      3-b,       4-a,     5-c,     6-c.

C. Match the following. 

i.  Oasis--------           a. Libya
ii. Bedouins-----------b. Monastery
iii. Oil-------------       c. Glaciers 
iv. Gangri------------  d. Depressions with water
v. Lamayuru----------e. Cold desert
                                   f. Sahara
Answer:-
i-d,       ii-e,       iii-a,      iv-c,       v- b

D. Give reasons: 

1. There is county vegetation in the deserts.

 Answer. 
The climate of deserts is either very hot and dry or very cold and dry.
Both of these climate conditions are not favorable for the growth of vegetation.
 Besides, this, rainfall is also very poor in the deserts.
 Due to lack of sufficient water, deserts have scanty vegetation.

2. People of the Sahara Desert wear heavy robes. 

Answer:-
People of this Sahara desert wear heavy robes to protect themselves from hot winds and dust storms.

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