Cl 10 Ch 5 Print culture and the Modern world

Cl 10 Ch 4 The Age of Industrialisation

Cl 10 Ch 3 The making of a Global World

Cl 10 Ch 2 Nationalism in India

Cl 10 Ch1 History

Cl 9 Natural vegetation and Wildlife

1. How many Plant and animal species are approximately found in India?
Ans. Around 47,000 plant species and 89,000 of animal species.

2. What is virgin vegetation?
Ans. The natural vegetation which has been left undisturbed by the humans for a long time is called virgin vegetation.

3. Why are the Western slopes of the Western ghats covered with thick forests and not the Eastern slopes?
Ans. On the Western rainy slopes of the Western ghats, forests really appear as wet evergreen forests and thick as compared to Eastern ghats because Eastern ghats remain in rain shadow.

4. What are biomes?
Ans. A very large ecosystem on land having distinct types of vegetation and animal life is called a biome.

Forest Society and Colonialism

1. Name the river which flows across Bastar from east to west.
Ans. River Indravati.

2. Name the communities living in Bastar.
Ans. Maria and Muria gonds, Dhruvas,  Bhatsas and Halbas.

3. Where is Bastar located?
Ans. Southernmost part of chhattisgarh.

4. Where is Java located?
Ans. Java is a rice producing island in Indonesia.

5. What was a Scorched Earth policy?
Ans. Destroying of saw Mills and burning huge piles of giant teak logs.