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This is because climate, soil and topography change with elevation.  

The floor of evergreen forest is dark as sunlight cannot penetrate through the broad, dense and interlocking canopy. 

Gujarat & Rajasthan. 

Pine,deodar and fir.

1. Trees shed their leaves in spring season. 

2. Wood is found in pure strands. 

3. Trees are economically very important. 

Babul & Date Palm

Teak, Sal, Semul, Sandalwood, Myrobalan

1. Long roots to tap ground water from greater depth 

2. Small leaves and spines to reduce water loss through transpiration 

3. Spines to protect themselves from predators 

Sal: Used to make railway sleepers 

Teak: Used for making furniture & ship 

Sandalwood: Oil used for perfumery 

Semul: Match boxes & packing cases 

Myrobalan: Dyeing of cotton, silk and wool 

MP, Chattisgarh, Assam, Orissa, Karnataka

1. Trees are not densely spaced so they are easy to cut. 

2. Wood is of good quality 

3. Wood is cheap and readily available 

4. There are many uses of the forest products. 

After the overthrow of monarchy, China had two types of regimes. The Guomindang (The National People’s Party) under Chaiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Mao Zedong.

Similarities:

1. Both the parties wanted to unite the country and bring stability. 

2. Both spread education by starting schools.

Differences:

A Concept map is a diagram that shows the suggested relationships among concepts. Concept maps, unlike the Mind maps, allow more divergence due to their multiple hubs and clusters. Mind maps are often restricted to radial hierarchies and tree structures. Another feature that distinguishes Mind map from a Concept map is that in a Mind map the basic idea is embodied in the centre image and the main themes radiate from the centre as branches. This, then branches off further as twigs.

(C) Parthenium

(D) Australia

Sheela Rani added ‘mobility’ as a part of the literacy drive.

Since lack of mobility among women played a big role in undermining their confidence, Sheela Rani included mobility as a part of the literacy drive.

The all-women’s cycle rally was held on the International Women’s Day in 1992.

The poet states the river has a soul. The soul is deathless. The water that flows in the river came from the drops of rain. The water evaporated, rose as mist to the mountaintops. Then it formed clouds and poured down as rain to the dry earth and flowed again. Thus the river goes on, immortal, deathless.

Priya: Jai, it goes without saying that fresh, clean water is essential for humans and nature to survive. Rivers are precious sources of fresh drinking water for people across the world. And when rivers are so badly polluted by industry or by poor water management practices, it can be a case of life-or-death. This unfortunately happens across the world.

Jai: Yes Priya. Freshwater habitats account for some of the richest biodiversity in the world, and rivers are a vital, vibrant ecosystem for many species. Only those who live by the river know about this wealth of nature. Those who live far away and damaging the system with the poisons are not aware.

Priya: People depend on rivers for their way of life and their livelihoods. From fishing to agriculture, the way our waterways are managed has a direct impact on people’s lives. There are millions of people who follow their ancestors’ way of living and earning a livelihood. But modern technology has wrecked the very source of these.

Jai: Rivers are absolutely vital: for fresh drinking water, for people’s livelihoods and for nature. Unfortunately, they’re still threatened. We must commit to recovering freshwater biodiversity, restoring natural river flows and cleaning up polluted water for people and nature to thrive. 

Priya: Yes Jai. I agree. It is the crying need of the day.

The poem ‘Small Towns and Rivers’ written by Mamang Dai is a beautiful word-picture. It is also a lament of the poet about her beautiful native land of Arunachal Pradesh.

This theme shows in the way she begins the poem that small towns remind her of death. It is shocking. She implies the town is unchanging in all weathers, but development comes along and changes everything. There is irony in that the cycle of life and death shows that life is not permanent, but the rituals are permanent.

She uses metaphor that the rivers are not only alive like us humans, but actually immortal. She personifies the river by way the river ‘holds its breath’ because it is choking. It is flowing in search of a place where it will flow clean and clear. The poet uses metaphor of the water cycle to illustrate the river has a soul and its waters are immortal.

The poet builds a climax with ‘shrine of happy’ childhood memories. This becomes growing up -‘grow with anxiety’. Then she speaks of how the dead are placed pointing west so the soul can ascend directly into the sun’s golden home in the east. This tells us about the traditions of her region.

The poem is in free verse and seems to be in easy language, but we can understand the full depth of meaning only after reading it more than once. The poem is a lament about the destruction of nature for development. We all will feel the sorrow of the poet when we read about how nature’s beauty is damaged for man’s greed called ‘progress’.

The poet says she thinks the river is holding its breath. One has to hold one’s breath when he/she is unable to breathe or does not want to breathe. The river may be choking with garbage and is not able to breathe. The river may be stinking and may not be able to breathe.

As the river is so filthy there are no fish. It is dirty; the water is not sparkling in the day and cannot reflect the stars at night. So the river is in search of a land where there it can flow clean, it will have fish and where its clear water will sparkle in the sun and glitter with stars at night.

We have to make people at large realize that we are a part of the nature not apart from the nature. Saving nature is to save ourselves, To bring about this realization I can address my steps to two sections. The first would be the children. Saving water would be the first thing to teach children. Story-telling, poems, songs, games, cartoons and can easily bring the conservation ideas to young minds. I would take my ideas to schools, parks, malls and try to spread this to the young ones.

The other section is of course the adult public across economic and social levels. The well off people must not be careless if they can afford to pay bills they can waste resources.

I will do everything possible. I will use social media to spread various messages/ mottos.

‘The river has a soul’.

D) All the above

(D) New Zealand

B) Jet planes

D) Ornithology

C) i – c, ii – e, iii – f, iv – a, v – b, vi – d

(D) Stop clock

(B) Temperature

(D) Australia

D) Both A and C

B) i – c, ii – a, iii – b

Answer is( D) Science

(D) All the above

C) Display of data

(C) Copernicus

C) Hypothesis

“The theory of gravitation” was discovered by Newton

Answer is (C) Peacock

Answer is (D) Peacock

‘Scientia’ is a word that belongs to Latin

(B) Observing

1. Pour 1 liter of water into each of three beakers. 

2. Put a towel from each of the three brands into a different beaker for 10 seconds. 

3. Pull the towel out of the water, and let it drain back into the beaker for 5 seconds. 

4. Measure the amount of water left in each beaker. 

5. The towel put in the beaker in which less amount of water is left absorbs more water.

(C) Questioning

(C) Knowledge

The average rainfall of a desert is less than 23 cm

(B) Laboratory

(B) F. Cojori