(English Medium) ICSE Class 9 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for Geography

What are periodic winds?

Why are the summer monsoons known as South-West Monsoons in the Indian subcontinent?

Mention any two extrusive landforms caused by volcanic eruptions.

Name any two intrusive landforms made by volcanic eruptions.

Describe the two causes of volcanic eruptions.

Write any three destructive effects of volcanoes.

Describe the world distribution of volcanoes.

Name three causes of volcanic eruptions.

What are the influences of volcanic eruptions on man?

Give a brief account of ‘Plate Tectonics’.

Name any two local winds.

Describe some of the important types of local winds.

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Most earthquakes occur on account of the strain in the _________.

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___________ are the first earthquake waves to be recorded on a seismograph of an earthquake.

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The last of the earthquake waves to arrive on the surface of the earth are ___________ waves.

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The giant sea waves caused by earthquakes in the oceans are called ___________.

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About 70 percent of the earthquakes occur in the _________________ Belt.

What is called an earthquake?

State two natural causes of an earthquake.

Name two man-made causes of an earthquake.