100+ World Geography Questions and Answers Pdf - 3

Question: 11

What are the industries carried on in temperate region?

Cutting of trees, paper making, furniture making etc. are carried on in the temperate region.

Question: 12

How do the temperature, soil and rainfall differ from place to place?

The temperature is very high in equatorial and tropical regions and very low in polar regions. There are regions, receiving rainfall throughout the year. There are some other regions not getting rainfall throughout the year.

Alluvial soil is found in deltas; black and red soil are found in plateau region.

Desserts are covered by sandy soil.

Thus temperature, soil and rainfall differ from place to place.

Question: 13

What are the plants that grow naturally without the help of man?

Various types of grasses, plants, creepers, cactus and trees like Acacia, neem, banyan etc are germinated and grown naturally without the help of man.

Question: 14

Name some of the coniferous forest trees?

Trees like hemlock, spruce, pine, fir etc, grow in the coniferous forest.

Question: 15

How do the coniferous trees get their name?

The leaves of the coniferous trees are needle in shape.

So the snowfall does not collect on them.

These leaves are also capable of withstanding subzero condition in winter.

Because of conical needle shape of the leaves, the trees are called coniferous trees.