The Gupta Period

 The Gupta Period

Q.1. When did Kushana Empire decline?

Q.2. Which century is known as the dark age of Ancient Indian History?

Q.3. Who ruled the Yamuna Valley, the Western India and the Deccan before the Rise of the Guptas?

Q.4. Which Archaeological and literary sources inform us about the Gupta period?

Q.5. Who was the first ruler of the Gupta dynasty?

Q.6. Who was the first Gupta Emperor?

Q.7. Which title was used by Chandragupta?

Q.8. Which territories were ruled by the Gupta   during Chandragupta I?

Q.9. Which  regions were ruled by Samudragupta?

Q.10. What was the extent of the rule of Samudragupta?

Q.11. Who was called a hero of a hundred battles?

Q.12. Who is called the Napoleon of India?

Q.13. What is Prashasti?

Q.14. Who took the title of ‘Vikramaditya’?

Q.15. Chandragupta gained control of which three ports by defeating the Sakas?

Q.16. Which period is regarded as the ‘Golden Age’ of ancient India?

Q.17. What is the source of information about the Golden Age of Ancient India?

Q.18. Give an account of the travels of Fa Hien?

Q.19. Give an account of the condition of India according to Fa Hien?

Q.20. Which places of Buddhist worship were in bad condition according to Fa Hien?

Q.21. Describe the Gupta Administration?

Q.22. Distinguish between the gupta Administration and the Mauryan Administration?

Q.23. Describe the society during the Gupta Period?

Q.24. What is a ‘devagriha’?

Q.25. Who was the tutor of Samudragupta's son?

Q.26. Describe religion during the Gupta period?

Q.27. Whose court had Kalidas?

Q.28. Name some famous works of Kalidasa?

Q.29. Which play was written by Kalidasa?

Q.30. Who wrote Mrichchhakatika?

Q.31. Which play was written by Vishakhadutta?

Q.32. Name two well known mathematicians and astronomers?

Q.33. Which concept was explained in Aryabhatiyam?

Q.34. What is Brihatsamhita?

Q.35. Who wrote Brihatsamhita?

Q.36. Give an example of advanced metallurgy of the Gupta Period?

Q.37. Who wrote books on medicine and surgery during the Gupta period?

Q.38. Give examples of fine architecture of the Gupta period?

Q.39. What are ‘Frescoes’? Where are they found in India?

Q.40. Ships sailed to which places from Tamralipti?

Q.41. Name some important ports of the west coast?

Q.42. What were the causes of the breakup of the Gupta kingdom?

Q.43. Who is regarded as the last great ruler of ancient India?

Q.44. Which two plays were written by Harsha in Sanskrit?

Q.45. Name some famous universities of the Harshavardhana time?

Q.46. What is the source of information about the Harshavardhana time?

Q.47. Describe the Harsha’s administration?

Q.48. Describe the society and life of people during Harsha time?

Q.49. Which ruler of the Vardhana dynasty is called ‘Indian Hatim’?

Understanding Diversity in India

 Understanding Diversity in India

Q.1. How is the variety found in the Republic of India based on diversity?

Q.2. Which natural diversities are there in India?

Q.3. Describe the geographical diversity present in India?

Q.4. What is included in the culture of a country?

Q.5. Describe the cultural diversity of India?

Q.6. What is religion? Name some religious communities?

Q.7. Describe the religious diversity of India?

Q.8. How many natural languages are there in India?

Q.9. Mention 22 national languages.

Q.10. Describe how language forms a natural diversity.

Q.11. Describe how there is diversity in dance and music.

Q.12. Mention different classical dances?

Q.13. What forms the Artificial or man made diversity?

Q.14. How does historical basis form a diversity?

Q.15. Describe how family structure has changed?

Q.16. Describe how occupation forms a diversity?

Q.17. What is the classification of division of work?

Q.18. How is the caste system a diversity?

Q.19. Describe the diversity of India explaining life in Kerala and Ladakh?

Q.20. Why is diversity needed in a society?

Q.21. How geographical factors unite our country?

Q.22. How do historical factors unite our country?

Q.23. How do political factors unite our country?

Q.24. How do cultural factors unite our country?

India : Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

 India : Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

Q.1. Which natural resources are gifted to our country by nature?

Q.2. What is natural vegetation?

Q.3. What is the classification of India based on climatic conditions and soil type?

Q.4. Where are the tropical rainforests found?

Q.5. Which trees are found in tropical rainforests?

Q.6. Why are evergreen forests called evergreen?

Q.7. How much rainfall tropical rainforests get?

Q.8. Where are the tropical deciduous forests found?

Q.9. How much rainfall tropical deciduous forests get?

Q.10. Which trees are found in the tropical deciduous forests?

Q.11. What is the other name for tropical deciduous forests?

Q.12. How much rainfall the thorny forests get?

Q.13. Which trees are found in the thorny forests?

Q.14. Which features are shown by trees of the thorny forests?

Q.15. Where are the thorny forests found?

Q.16. Where are the tidal forests found?

Q.17. Which trees are found in the tidal forests?

Q.18. Tidal forests are also known as?

Q.19. Where are the coniferous trees found?

Q.20. Name some coniferous trees?

Q.21. What is included in subtropical hill vegetation?

Q.22. Where are plants of Alpine families found?

Q.23. What is the use of Sundri trees?

Q.24. What is conservation?

Q.25. Which steps have been taken for conservation?

Q.26. What is afforestation?

Q.27. Which animals are found in our forests?

Q.28. The number of which species of animals is limited? Name some.

Q.29. When is wildlife week observed?

Q.30. Name two species of wildlife which became endangered?

Q.31. Name two species which may become extinct?

Q.32. Which steps must be taken to conserve wildlife?

Q.33. What is the full form of WWF?

Q.34. What is the full form of CNNR?

Q.35. Name three places where bird and wildlife sanctuaries are established?

Q.36. Name some places where wildlife sanctuaries are located?

Q.37. Where are the natural parks located?

Q.38. How many tiger projects are there and in how many states?

Climate of India

 Climate of India

Q.1. What causes four seasons in India?

Q.2. Which are the four distinct seasons in India?

Q.3. Describe the cold weather season?

Q.4. Describe the hot weather season?

Q.5. What are mango showers?

Q.6. Describe the season of the advancing monsoon?

Q.7. Which coast remains dry in the advancing monsoon?

Q.8. Describe the season of the retreating monsoon?

Q.9. What is called the October heat?

India: Our Motherland

 India : Our Motherland

Q.1. What is the location and size of India?

Q.2. How many states and Union Territories does India have?

Q.3. Name three recently formed states?

Q.4. Which states have a common boundary with Pakistan?

Q.5. Which states have a common boundary with China?

Q.6. Which states have a common boundary with Bangladesh?

Q.7. Which states are along the sea coast?

Q.8. Which states are known as seven sisters?

Q.9. Which countries share land boundaries with India?

Q.10. Which countries are included in the Indian subcontinent?

Q.11. Which are the five physiographic divisions of India?

Q.12. What is the east-west extent of the mountain ranges along the Northern boundary of our country?

Q.13. What does the word Himalayas mean?

Q.14. Which are the three parallel ranges of the Himalayas?

Q.15. Which is the northernmost range of the Himalayas?

Q.16. What are Purvanchal Hills?

Q.17. Name some hill stations of the Himachal Range?

Q.18. What are ‘duns’? Give an example?

Q.19. Describe the Northern plains?

Q.20. Which are the three parts of the Northern Plains?

Q.21. What is the origin of the Indus river?

Q.22. Where is Indus plain located?

Q.23. Name the tributaries of the Indus?

Q.24. Name the tributaries of the Ganga?

Q.25. Where is the origin of Brahmaputra?

Q.26. What is the name of Brahmaputra in Tibet?

Q.27. Name one tributary of Brahmaputra?

Q.28. Which kind of rocks are found in the Great Indian Plateau?

Q.29. The Narmada river divides the Great Indian Plateau into which two parts?

Q.30. What forms the boundaries of the Central Highlands?

Q.31. The western part of the Central Highlands are known as?

Q.32. What forms the Western Ghats?

Q.33. Name the highest peak in the Deccan plateau?

Q.34. Which rivers flow in the Eastern Ghats?

Q.35. Where do the Eastern and the Western ghats converge?

Q.36. Which region is covered by the Deccan trap?

Q.37. Which two rivers fall into the Arabian Sea?

Q.38. Which is the longest river of south India?

Q.39. What forms the western coastal plain?

Q.40. Name two natural harbors of India?

Q.41. What forms the eastern coastal plain?

Q.42. What is the name of the Indian desert?

Q.43. Name the two groups of islands of India?

Major Relief Features of the Earth

 Major Relief Features of the Earth

Q.1. What is the ratio of water area and land area in the Southern Hemisphere?

Q.2. Which major domains of the earth sustain life?

Q.3. What is lithosphere?

Q.4. What is the atmosphere?

Q.5. What is the hydrosphere?

Q.6. What is the biosphere?

Q.7. Name the seven continents?

Q.8. Which is the largest continent in the world?

Q.9. Describe political features of Asia?

Q.10. Describe physical features of Asia?

Q.11. Which three oceans surround Asia?

Q.12. What separates Asia and Europe?

Q.13. What separates Asia from North America?

Q.14. What separates Asia from Africa?

Q.15. Which is the highest peak in the world?

Q.16. Which is the lowest part of the Earth?

Q.17. Where is the highest temperature recorded on Earth?

Q.18. Where is the lowest temperature recorded on Earth?

Q.19. Where is the highest rainfall recorded?

Q.20. Which is the second largest continent after Asia?

Q.21. Which oceans surround Africa?

Q.22. What separates Africa from the European continent?

Q.23. What is an Isthmus?

Q.24. Where is the Suez canal built?

Q.25. What is the importance of the Suez Canal?

Q.26. Which is the only continent through which the tropic of cancer, the equator and the tropic of capricorn passes?

Q.27. Africa occupies what ratio of land in the world?

Q.28. Which is the largest desert in the world?

Q.29. Which is the world’s longest river?

Q.30. What is the source of river Nile?

Q.31. Which is the third largest continent in the world?

Q.32. What are the political features of North America?

Q.33. Which oceans surround North America?

Q.34. What links North America to South America?

Q.35. Which area is known as the West Indies?

Q.36. Which is the fourth largest continent in the world?

Q.37. What are the political features of South America?

Q.38. Which oceans surround South America?

Q.39. Which continent remains frozen throughout the year?

Q.40. Which oceans surround Antarctica?

Q.41. Name the unmanned station of India in Antarctica?

Q.42. What is the joint name of Europe and Asia?

Q.43. What is the latitudinal and longitudinal extent of Europe?

Q.44. Which oceans and seas surround Europe?

Q.45. Name the four Scandinavian countries?

Q.46. Name the countries of the British Isles?

Q.47. Name the countries of Benelux Nations?

Q.48. Name the countries of Iberian Peninsula?

Q.49. Which countries form Balkan States?

Q.50. Which countries are part of the Baltic States?

Q.51. Name the five tiny nations of Europe?

Q.52. Which is the smallest continent?

Q.53. What is the extent of Australia?

Q.54. What separates Australia from Indonesia?

Q.55. What separates New Zealand from Australia?

Q.56. What is the capital of Australia?

Q.57. What are oceans?

Q.58. Name the oceans in the descending order of their size?

Q.59. Which is the largest ocean?

Q.60. Which is the deepest ocean?

Q.61. Which is the deepest ocean trench?

Q.62. Which is the only ocean to be named after a country?

Q.63. What connects the Arctic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean?

Q.64. Which countries bound the Arctic Ocean?

Q.65. What is the importance of oceans?

Q.66. What is called relief?

Q.67. Which groups form the relief features of the earth?

Q.68. What are mountains?

Q.69. Which chains of parallel mountains form the Himalayas?

Q.70. Name the different mountain ranges along with the continents?

Q.71. State the three types of mountains?

Q.72. Give examples of the young fold mountains?

Q.73. Give examples of the old fold mountains?

Q.74. What are young fold mountains?

Q.75. What are old fold mountains?

Q.76. Describe block mountains?

Q.77. What is the other name of block mountains?

Q.78. Give examples of block mountains?

Q.79. What are volcanic mountains?

Q.80. Give examples of volcanic mountains?

Q.81. What are plateaus?

Q.82. Which is the highest plateau in the world?

Q.83. What are plains?

Q.84. What is alluvium?

Q.85. Describe the atmosphere?

Q.86. What is the composition of the atmosphere?

Q.87. Describe the importance of nitrogen?

Q.88. Describe the importance of oxygen?

Q.89. Name the different layers of the atmosphere?

Q.90. What is the importance of the troposphere?

Q.91. What is the importance of the stratosphere?

Q.92. What is the importance of the ionosphere? 

Q.93. Which two kingdoms are formed by the living organisms of the Biosphere?

Q.94. Which elements form the Biosphere?

Motions of the Earth

 Motions of the Earth

Q.1. What are the two kinds of motions Earth has?

Q.2. What is rotation?

Q.3. What is the inclination of the earth’s axis?

Q.4. What is a circle of illumination?

Q.5. How do days and nights occur on earth?

Q.6. What is dusk or twilight?

Q.7. What are the effects of rotation?

Q.8. What is revolution?

Q.9. What is a Leap Year and what is the leap day?

Q.10. Describe the change in seasons?

Q.11. What are the effects of the Revolution?

Q.12. Describe the position of the sun on 21 June?

Q.13. Which position is called summer solstice?

Q.14. Describe the position of the sun on 22 December?

Q.15. Which position is called the winter solstice?

Q.16. Describe the position of the sun on 21 March?

Q.17. Describe the position of the sun on 23 September?

Q.18. When do we face equal day and night in the Northern Hemisphere?

Q.19. When do we face equal day and night in the Southern Hemisphere?

Q.20. Which is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere?

Q.21. Which is the longest day in the Southern Hemisphere?

Q.22. Which is the shortest day in the Northern Hemisphere?

Q.23. Which is the shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere?