Chapter 7
1. What is weather and Climate?
2. Write the difference between weather and climate.
3. Name the gaseous product that emits from smoke? / Name the gaseous product that covers earth like a veil? /
name the gaseous compounds that entrapped heat in atmosphere?
4. Which gaseous compound has immense role in maintaining the life processes on earth
5. What happened if carbon di oxide and water vapour remain absent in atmosphere?
6. What is global warming?
7. What are the effects of climate change?
8. Name the important gas produces by anthropogenic activities? In which year the rate of release of CO2 been
increased?
9. Since when has the level of CO₂ increased to an extent not seen in the last few lakh years?
10. How much has the average temperature of the Earth increased in the last 100 years (as noticed in 2001)?
11. Which year was the warmest year of the last century?
12. How many heat wave incidents were reported in India between 1980 and 1988? What was the impact of these
heat waves on human life?
13. What unusual climatic event occurred in Rajasthan in 2005? What contrasting climatic condition was observed
in North-east India in the same year?
14. How many seasonal depressions occurred in 2007, and how was it different from the usual number? Which
countries were affected by the floods caused by these depressions? What was the impact of these floods on
human lives and households?
15. What is the usual height of the frozen ice in the Amarnath Cave between May and August? What change was
observed in the height of the ice in June 2007, and why?
16. What natural disaster occurred in Uttarakhand in 2015? What were the consequences of the cloudburst in
Uttarakhand?
17. What is the importance of glaciers for the Earth’s freshwater supply?
18. Where are more than 99% of the world’s glaciers found?
19. Name some important glacier of Himalaya .
20. Name the rivers formed from glacier. What nourishes these rivers?
21. How many rivers of asia nourished by Himalaya? Write the benefit of it.
22. What weather condition have deep impact on the glacier? What happed to Gangotri and Alaska bay?
23. Write the effects of melting of glacier.
(a) According to rise of sea level
(b) According to coastal area
(c) In sunderban
(d) Global warming
(e) Increase temperature of earth
24. What is coral? Which phylum it belongs to? How they live? What does they form around their body?
25. Name the compound through which the exoskeleton of coral made up of. Write the function of exoskeleton.
26. What is coral reef?
27. Write short note about coral reef and coral island.
28. Reason for destruction of coral reef.
29. Name some animal which are in the way of destruction due to loss of biodiversity.
30. Name a reptile which is in the way of destruction due to loss of biodiversity.
31. Name two plants and three birds which are in the way of destruction due to loss of biodiversity.
32. Who is black hooded oriole.
33. Define microbes and biodiversity. Give example.
34. What is biodiversity hotspot? Which colour is marked biodiversity hotspot in map?
35. Name 4 biodiversity hotspots.
36. What is mega diversity nation.
37. Why is india very rich in biodiversity?
38. Write 3 plants and 3 animals and their benefits.
39. What is the source of the medicine- quinine, reserpine, penicillin.
40. Write importance of biodiversity according to –
(a) Climate stability
(b) Sources of food
(c) Controlling environmental pollution
(d) Soil conservation
(e) Balance of different elements in nature
(f) Source of medicine
(g) Art and literature
(h) Tourism
(i) Wood
(j) Other industry
(k) Interdependence among different organisms
41. On which plant silk moth build nests?
42. What are the reasons of loss of bio diversity of earth?
43. Reason for loss of habitat. Give example of an animal destroy due to loss of habitat.
44. Reason for illegal hunting/poaching. Give example of an animal destroy due to poaching.
45. Why the population of tortoise decreased after sometimes?
46. Why existence of indigenous fish is the problem for mourala, punti, khalse?
47. Why penguin , polar foxes endangered due to melting of ice?
48. Why are corals effected in sea water?
49. Write the biodiversity problem due to increase in CO2 in environment?
50. What are the reason of environmental pollution?
51. Why gangetic dolphins are on decline?
52. Why Himalayan musk deer are in danger?
53. How many species have gone extinct from last 500 years? At present how many species are endangered?
54. Name 6 animals, 1 bird, 1 dolphin, 1 tree that are on the verge of extinction?
55. Name some infectious deseases spread by vectors like mosquito, fly?
56. Name some infectious deseases spread by used clothes of patients.
57. Name some infectious deseases spread by metals or wastes coming out from factories.
58. Write short note about hepatitis.
59. Name the plants that absorb huge amount of co2.
60. What is food chain? Food web? Give example.
61. Why there is so much rains in rain forest?
62. Name the plants that absorb huge amount of pollutant.
63. Name the plants that filters the air.
64. Name the trees with compound leaves that abosorbs different gases of smoke and dust and start to precipitate
on leaves?
65. Reason of soil erosion.
66. Name some insects, birds, mammals, reptiles that lives in tree.
67. Name animals that lives in different forests like-
(a) Coniferous forest
(b) Deciduous forest
(c) Mangrove forest
(d) Grassland forest
(e) Weed forest of wetland
(f) Bushes and trees around our houses.
68. What is supplied by a mature mangrove tree of sunderban? / why it is essential to keep mangrove alive?