HSC Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता ११ वी - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

Collect information on the following and discuss in the class: 

1. Major journeys carried out by explorers in the last millennium
2. Discovery of continents, countries, and islands
3. Spread of culture, trade, and religions

Comment on how oceans have played a major role in all the three points mentioned above.

Look at the figure and answer the following question.

1. What does the figure show?
2. In which part of the figure is the ocean shallow? Which human activities can be carried out here?
3. In which part does deposition of sediments occur?
4. Where in the figure do you find islands formed due to submerged mountains?
5. Label the figure with the correct names of landforms.
6. Compare these features with the landforms on the earth.

Find out the name and locations of islands located in India and list them in the above given categories.

Complete the chain:

Show the following on the map of the World:

1. Chagos Range
2. Mariana Trench
3. Dogger Bank 
4. Mumbai High
5. Sunda Deep
6. Grand Banks

Look at the figure and answer the following questions:

1. What does this map show?
2. Which continents and sub-continents are visible on this map?
3. What lies between the continents?
4. Chagos Plateau, Sunda Trench, Central Mountain range are a part of what?
5. What are the conclusions you can draw after looking at the map?

See the maps in Figures A and B. They show the pattern of ocean currents in the Indian Ocean during different seasons.
Study the maps carefully and answer the following questions.

1. Identify the season each map is representing and name them accordingly.
2. What difference do you notice in the direction of currents between winter and summer in the Northern part of the Indian Ocean?
3. How many cold currents are there in the Indian Ocean? Name them.
4. Why do you think the cold currents are fewer in the Indian Ocean.
5. Which currents maintain the direction in both the season?
6. Can you see any circulation in the currents of the Indian Ocean? What are such circulations called? If yes name the currents sequentially.

Complete the chain:

Give geographical reasons:

The eastern coastal part of the Indian Ocean is seismically active.

On an outline map of the world, locate the following, and make an index:

1. Sunda Trench
2. Diego Garcia
3. SW Monsoon
4. Agulhas Current
5. West Australian Current
6. Ninety East ridge
7. Strait of Holmuz
8. Chabahar port

Look at the figure Answer the following questions:

1. What does the figure show?
2. What do the numbers on the figure represent?
3. How does latitude influence the vegetation?
4. How does latitude influence the fauna of a place?
5. Which latitude will have more biodiversity?

Besides latitudes, what other conditions influence the biome?

In which region in India, is desertification occurring?

Read the following news item.

A grizzly bear that killed a mother and her baby in Yukon last fall was emaciated and desperately pursuing unusual food sources at the time of the attack, according to an investigation by the territory’s government. Valérie Théorêt, 37, and her 10-month-old daughter, Adèle Roesholt, died on Nov. 26, 2018, when a grizzly bear attacked them near their trapping cabin in the remote Einarson Lake area northeast of the village of Mayo. Gordon Hitchcock, chief conservation officer for the Government of Yukon, said the 18-year-old male grizzly bear was emaciated to the point that it was incapable of hibernation. Additionally, it was insignificant and chronic pain from having eaten a porcupine – which bears do not typically eat – and had quills penetrating its digestive system from the mouth to stomach. “This bear had started turning to uncommon food sources,” said Mr. Hitchcock, who presented findings of a necropsy in Whitehorse on Wednesday. - CNN News

1. Why do such things occur?
2. Give examples of such similar incidents in Maharashtra wherein some animal has attacked people in a particular region.

Complete the chain:

Fill in the blank with appropriate alternatives given below and rewrite the sentence.

Ecosystem consists of interaction between ____________ and abiotic factors.

Fill in the blank with appropriate alternatives given below and rewrite the sentence.

The original meaning of savanna is____________

Arrange the given statements as per given instructions.

Arrange the following biomes in proper order from the Equator to Pole.

1. Tundra
2. Tropical rain forest
3. Boreal forest
4. Sahara desert

Write notes on Disaster.

Choose the correct alternative :

Statement A - The cyclonic depression originating in the Bay of Bengal is marching towards Tamil Nadu at a velocity of 350 km/ hr.

Statement B - The loss of life was not much but property loss occurred on a large scale.