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प्रश्न
What, has been the influence of the Northern Mountain Wall on the Indian Sub-continent?
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उत्तर
(i) Since historic times, the movement of the people across the Himalayas has been limited. This helped in the development of a distinct culture of its own.
(ii) It prevents the cold winds coming from Central Asia to India.
(iii) Monsoon winds which scale the heights along the Himalayas cause rainfall in the Indian sub-continent.
(iv) The glaciers and snow fields of the Himalayas are the source of a large number of perennial rivers.
(v) Heavily forested slopes of the Himalayas provide valuable timber and other useful forest products.
(vi) The Himalayas give shelter to a wide variety of wild animal life. Thus, it maintains the balance in ecosystem.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Name the mountain ranges that lie along east and west of Pamir Knot.
Name the world’s first and second highest mountain peaks.
Mention the sub-units into which the Deccan Plateau region can be divided.
Mention the sub-units of the Deccan Plateau?
(i) State the type of rocks found in the Plateau of Peninsular India?
(ii) Name the three important lakes of Peninsular India?
(iii) How was the Great Indian Plateau formed?
The Peninsular Plateau of India was a part of Gondwana Land hundreds of millions years ago.
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.
On the outline map of India provided mark and name the following:
- Himalayas
- River Ganga
- Chennai
- Western Ghats
- Gulf of Kutch
- Malabar coastal plain
- Karakoram Pass
- Black soil area in peninsular region
- Standard Meridian of India
- Jharia coal field
