Balbharati solutions for Geography Integrated [English] Standard 6 Maharashtra State Board chapter 8 - Natural Resources [Latest edition]

Observe and think about the pictures given in the figure and answer the following questions:

• What do you see in the pictures?
• How many of these animals or plants do you know?
• Which of these things have you seen in reality?
• Have you ever used these things or seen them being used?
• Which of our needs do some of these fulfil?
• What probable use of the unused things can you think of?

Find more information about the things you could not identify.

Observe all the figures and discuss them in the class. It is necessary that each of the things shown is considered. For this, use the following points.

• What different activities are the individuals in the pictures engaged in?
• What things will they obtain through these activities?
• What are the animals in the pictures doing?
• What is the use of the tall device in figure 8 .12 raised on the ground?
• What is being loaded in the truck? What are we going to get from it?
• Where are all these human activities being performed other than fishing?

List the various things for which we use water. Identify the things that lead to the wastage of water.

Name the different metals from which the things in your house are made. Make a chart of things and metals.

List the occupations carried out on land.

Consider that you have gone for a stay at Manglu's hamlet. You observe that the conditions of people who live there is not good. Many people take food only once in a day. Most of the people in the hamlet are engaged in the work of dressing stones. There is a vast forest around Manglu' s hamlet. A number of streams, brooks, waterfalls, hills, etc. have made the region beautiful. There is good potential for tourism. What can you do to change the conditions of the people in Manglu' s hamlet?

Identify the natural resources.

Remember that the natural resources have to be used in a judicious manner.

Tell the use of different natural resources.

What is the use of the following resource?

Water

What is the use of the following resource?

Forests

What is the use of the following resource?

Animals

What is the use of the following resource?

Minerals

What is the use of the following resource?

Land

Complete the following flow chart.

What factors influence the formation of soil?

Which products are obtained from forests?

What are the uses of minerals?

What are the purposes for which land is used?

Why is it necessary to conserve natural resources?

Collect the pictures and write information about the sources of fresh water.