(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

Remote sensing satellites are effective in environmental protection.

Give two reasons in support of your answer.

What is alternate technology?

State one benefit of alternate technology.

What is energy plantation?

List any four advantages of energy plantation.

Assertion (A): The satellite imagery is used for collecting data on environmental damage.

Reason (R): This data collection helps in marketing and selling of forest products.

Write any two contributions of private enterprises in city improvement.

Suggest five methods by which we can reduce the cutting of trees or combat deforestation.

A satellite city is a ______.

How can private enterprises help in improving cities?

State five features of plants that can be used for energy plantations.

Suggest five reasons why has the above technology become very prominent and beneficial.

What is overgrazing?

Give any four hazards of overgrazing.

On the outline map of India provided:

1. Shade and label Thar Desert.
2. Label the river Narmada.
3. Shade and name the Wular Lake.
4. Shade and label Kanara coast.
5. Mark and name Mount Kanchenjunga.
6. Shade and label a densely-populated region in India.
7. Shade and label a region with Red soil in India.
8. Mark with a dot and name Chennai.
9. Mark and label the Arabian Sea branch of S.W. Monsoon.
10. Mark with a dot and name Singhbhum.

Differentiate between Surface water and Groundwater.

On an outline map of India provided:
(a) Draw and name the Tropic of Cancer.
(b) Label the river Godavari.
(c) Mark and name the Garo Hills.
(d) Mark C on the coal fields of Jharia.
(e) Mark with an arrow and name the NE monsoon over the Bay of Bengal.
(f) Shade and name the Gulf of Kutch.
(g) Shade and name the coastal plain that receives rainfall in October and November.
(h) Mark with a dot and name Delhi.
(i) Shade a region with Black Cotton Soil.
(j) Use an arrow to point at a densely populated state in South India.

On the outline map of India provided:

(a) Draw and number the Standard Meridian of India.
(b) Label the river Mahanadi.
(c) Mark and name Lake Chilka.
(d) Shade and name the Gulf of Mannar.
(e) Mark and name the Vindhya Mountains.
(f) Shade and name a sparsely populated region in western India
(g) Shade a region with alluvial soil in South India.
(h) Mark and name Kolkata.
(i) Mark with arrows and name South West Monsoon winds over the Bay of Bengal.
(j) Mark and name Mumbai High.

On the outline map of India provided:
a) Mark and name the Nilgiris.
b) Shade and label the Malwa Plateau.
c) Shade and label the Malabar Coastal Plains.
d) Mark and name the River Gomati.
e) Mark and name the Andaman Sea.
f) Mark and name Allahabad.
g) Mark with a single arrow and name the winds that bring winter rains to North West India.
h) Mark and name Digboi.
i) Mark an area with laterite soil below the Tropic of Cancer.
j) Mark and name the Karakoram Pass.

What is the value of the contour line in square 0226? What is the contour interval in the map?