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प्रश्न
(i) Define Coral Islands and Volcanic Islands.
(ii) Define Lagoons.
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उत्तर
(i) Coral Islands: When Coral polyps die, their skeletons turn into large masses of white calcium carbonate, giving rise to white sands. Lakshadweep is coral island.
Volcanic Islands: Many of the islands of the Andaman and Nicobar are volcanic in nature.
(ii) Lagoons are salt water lakes which are almost separated from the Sea by the formation of sandbars along the coast.
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Name the two component parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain?
What are the salient characteristics of Shivaliks?
What, has been the influence of the Northern Mountain Wall on the Indian Sub-continent?
The Peninsular Plateau of India was a part of Gondwana Land hundreds of millions years ago.
The Peninsular rivers not navigable.
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Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats.
The Eastern Coastal Plain and Western Coastal Plain.
One the map of India:
(a) Label the rivers: Mahanadi, Kaveri, Chambal, Betwa.
(b) Show by an arrow and name the Gulfs: Khambat, Kutch, Mannar
(c) Name the Lakes: Chilka and Pulicat.
(d) Write in bold letters Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean in their appropriate places.
Name the ranges in the western branch of the Himalayas.
