Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 19, 2023

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?


Globe: The model of the Earth

 Globe: The Model of the Earth


Q.1. What is the equatorial diameter of the Earth?

Q.2. What is the polar diameter of the earth?

Q.3. Equator divides the earth into which hemispheres?

Q.4. What are latitudes?

Q.5. What is an equator?

Q.6. What are hemispheres?

Q.7. What is the use of latitude?

Q.8. Why are the latitudes called parallels?

Q.9. What are the features of latitude?

Q.10. How many latitudes are there?

Q.11. What is the position of the Tropic of Cancer?

Q.12. What is the position of the Tropic of Capricorn?

Q.13. Which circle is located at 66.5o north and south of the Equator?

Q.14. Show the latitudes of Earth with the help of a globe?

Q.15. The globe is divided into how many zones based on latitudinal extent?

Q.16. Which area is known as a torrid zone?

Q.17. When are the sun seen overhead the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?

Q.18. What are the locations of the temperate zones?

Q.19. What are the locations of the frigid zone?

Q.20. Describe the effect of heat in the three zones?

Q.21. What are longitudes?

Q.22. When a longitude faces the sun?

Q.23. Longitude measurement is relative to which meridian?

Q.24. How is the value of the meridian determined?

Q.25. What are the differences between parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude?

Q.26. How many meridians of longitude are there?

Q.27. What is local time?

Q.28. What is standard time?

Q.29. What is the standard meridian of India?

Q.30. What is IST?

Q.31. What is GMT?

Q.32. How many time zones are there on Earth?

Q.33. How many longitudes are cornered in each timezone?

Q.34. How many time zones does Russia and the USA have?


Our Earth in the Solar System

 Our Earth in the Solar System


Q.1. What are ‘heavenly bodies’? What is the other name for these?

Q.2. Name some celestial bodies.

Q.3. What are stars?

Q.4. What is a light year?

Q.5. Which is the star nearest to the Sun?

Q.6. What are constellations?

Q.7. Describe the ‘Saptarshi Mandal’? Give other names for it?

Q.8. What is a ‘Galaxy’? Our sun belongs to which galaxy?

Q.9. What is space?

Q.10. What does the words ‘solar system’ mean? What does it consist of?

Q.11. What are the two functions of the Sun?

Q.12. How were the Sun, the planets and the asteroids formed?

Q.13. Describe planets?

Q.14. Name the inner planets?

Q.15. Name the outer planets?

Q.16. Which is the largest planet?

Q.17. Which is the smallest planet?

Q.18. Which is the hottest planet? Why?

Q.19. Which planets have rings around them?

Q.20. What are the Trojans?

Q.21. What is a planet?

Q.22. Why is Pluto not a planet? What do we call such a heavenly body?

Q.23. What is the difference between stars and planets?

Q.24. Which two types of motion are exhibited by planets?

Q.25. What is revolution?

Q.26. What is rotation?

Q.27. Which planet is known as the blue planet?

Q.28. Describe earth?

Q.29. Why do we call our earth a unique planet?

Q.30. Who proved that the earth is round?

Q.31. Which proof states that the earth is round?

Q.32. What is a satellite?

Q.33. Which is the largest satellite of the solar system?

Q.34. How many satellites does these planets have

  1. Saturn

  2. Jupiter

  3. Uranus

  4. Mars

Q.35. Describe the Moon?

Q.36. What are craters?

Q.37. State the phases of the Moon?

Q.38. What are asteroids?

Q.39. What are meteorites?

Q.40. What are comets?

Q.41. Name the parts of a comet.

Q.42. Describe India’s Space Programme?


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 rul...