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

(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?

(i) Give a brief note on Islands of India.
(ii) Where does the Lakshadweep group of islands lie?

What, has been the influence of the Northern Mountain Wall on the Indian Sub-continent?

Give reasons to justify that the Himalayas act as a ‘climatic divide’.

The Peninsular Plateau of India was a part of Gondwana Land hundreds of millions years ago.

The Peninsular rivers not navigable.

Give a geographical reason of the following:

The Peninsular Plateau of India is rich in mineral resources.

Why is ‘The Delta region of the Indus is largely a waste land.’

Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats.

Delta and an estuary.

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.

Name the five most important peaks of the Himalayan Range.

Mention the important passes in the western branch of the Himalayas.

Which forest regions of India are also known as ‘Rain Forests’?

How is it that the main regions of the Monsoon forests is the interior of the Southern Peninsula?

What are Littoral forests or Tidal forests? Name the principal trees that grow in these forests.

Give two characteristics of tidal forests.

What are Sundarbans?