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The document covers various aspects of the Amazon Basin and the Ganga River, including the crops grown, wildlife, and major cities. It discusses the climatic conditions of the Amazon, the impact of slash and burn agriculture, and provides answers to multiple-choice and matching questions. Additionally, it highlights the reasons for rainforest depletion and the suitability of the Ganga-Brahmaputra plain for paddy cultivation.

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Class 7-1

The document covers various aspects of the Amazon Basin and the Ganga River, including the crops grown, wildlife, and major cities. It discusses the climatic conditions of the Amazon, the impact of slash and burn agriculture, and provides answers to multiple-choice and matching questions. Additionally, it highlights the reasons for rainforest depletion and the suitability of the Ganga-Brahmaputra plain for paddy cultivation.

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CLASS 7

SUBJECT : GEOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 6
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION
QUE1: NAME THE CONTINENT IN WHICH THE AMAZON BASIN IS
LOCATED.
ANS: The Amazon basin is located in South America.
QUE2: WHAT ARE THE CROPS GROWN BY THE PEOPLE OF THE
AMAZON BASIN?

Ans: Food crops: tapioca, pine apple, sweet potato, manioc.


Cash crops: coffee, maize, cocoa
QUE3: NAME THE BIRDS THAT YOU ARE LIKELY TO FIND IN THE
RAINFORESTS OF THE AMAZON.
ANS: The birds that are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon are-
1. Toucans
2. Humming bird
3. Bird of paradise
QUE4: WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CITIES LOCATED ON THE RIVER
GANGA?
ANS: The major cities located on the river |Ganga are-
1. Prayagraj
2. Kanpur
3. Varanasi
4. Lucknow
5. Patna
6. Kolkata
QUE5: WHERE IS ONE HORNED RHINOCEROUS FOUND?
ANS: The one horned Rhinoceros is found in Brahmaputra plain.
GIVE REASON
QUE1: THE RAINFORESTS ARE DEPLETING.
ANS: Because of indiscriminate cutting of trees for the sake of development.
Que2: Paddy is grown in the Ganga- Brahmaputra plain.
Ans: Because paddy requires sufficient water. This region receives good amount of
rainfall and there is dense network of rivers too which helps to fulfill the
requirement of water for paddy crop.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
Que1: write the climatic conditions of the Amazon Basin.
Ans: 1. The Amazon basin is characterized by hot and wet climate throughout the
year.
2. Both days and nights are almost equally hot and humid.
3. It rains almost everyday.
Que2: what is slash and burn agriculture?
ANS: slash and burn is a way of cultivating land where farmers clear a piece of
land by slashing or cutting down trees and bushes. After two or three crops, the soil
loses fertility. So farmers abandon that patch and clear another plot of land to
cultivate.
Que3: Amazon basin is rich in the variety of wildlife. Explain
Ans: 1. Birds such as toucans, humming bird, bird of paradise are found here,
which make loud sounds in the forests.
2. Animals like monkeys, sloth and ant eating tapirs are found here.
3. Various species of reptiles and snake also thrive in these jungles . Anaconda and
boa constrictor are some of the species.
4. Basin is also home to thousand of species of insects.
5. Several species of fishes including the flesh eating Piranha fish is also found in
the river.
TICK THE CORRECT ANSWER
1. Toucans are a type of
A) Birds
B) Animals
C) Crops
Ans: Birds
2. Manioc is the staple food of
a) Ganga basin
b) Africa
c) Amazon
Ans: Amazon
3. Kolkata is located on the river
a) Orange
b) Hooghly
c) Bhagirathi
Ans: Hooghly
4. Deodars and firs are type of
a) Coniferous trees
b) Deciduous trees
c) Shrubs
Ans: Coniferous trees
5. Bengal tiger is found in
a) Mountains
b) Delta area
c) Amazon
Ans: Delta Area

MATCH THE FOLLOWING

Cotton textile Ganga Plain

Maloca Slanting roof

Piranha Fish

Silk worm sericulture

Kaziranga Assam

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