Chapter 6
Human Environment Interactions
- Answer the following questions.
(i) Name the continent in which the Amazon Basin is located.
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(ii) What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon Basin.
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(iii) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon.
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(iv) What are the major cities located on the River Ganga.
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(v) Where is the one-horned rhinoceros found?
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- Tick the correct answer.
(i) Toucans are a type of
(a) birds
(b) animals
(c) crops
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(ii) Manioc is the staple food of
(a) Ganga Basin
(b) Africa
(c) Amazon
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(iii) Kolkata is located on the river
(a) Orange
(b) Hooghly
(c) Bhagirathi
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(iv) Deodars and firs are a type of
(a) Coniferous trees
(b) Deciduous trees
(c) shrubs
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(v) Bengal tiger is found in
(a) mountains
(b) delta area
(c) Amazon
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- Match the following.
(i) Cotton textile (a) Assam
(ii) Maloca (b) Terrace farming
(iii) Piranha (c) Sericulture
(iv) Silk worm (d) Slanting roof
(v) Kaziranga (e) Ganga plain
(f) Varanasi
(g) Fish
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- Give reasons.
(i) The rainforests are depleting.
(ii) Paddy is grown in the Ganga-Brahmaputra plains.