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    The document contains 10 questions from Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography textbook chapters 1-9. The questions cover topics such as the definition of region and differences between regional planning and development; evolution of the atmosphere and hydrosphere on Earth and Mars; how earthquakes help study the interior of Earth; differences between the continental drift and plate tectonics theories; evidence for continental drift; types of metamorphic rocks and how they are formed; classifications of mass movements and causes of landslides in the Western Himalayas; how limestone behaves differently in humid and arid climates; why the troposphere is important and how climate change affects the atmosphere; and how latitude and the tilt of

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    The document contains 10 questions from Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography textbook chapters 1-9. The questions cover topics such as the definition of region and differences between regional planning and development; evolution of the atmosphere and hydrosphere on Earth and Mars; how earthquakes help study the interior of Earth; differences between the continental drift and plate tectonics theories; evidence for continental drift; types of metamorphic rocks and how they are formed; classifications of mass movements and causes of landslides in the Western Himalayas; how limestone behaves differently in humid and arid climates; why the troposphere is important and how climate change affects the atmosphere; and how latitude and the tilt of

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    Mains Self Study 2017: Test - 7

    October 18, 2016

    Answer ALL the following questions in about 200 Words.


    1. What do you understand by region? Differentiate between regional planning and regional
    development.
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 1
    2. Discuss the evolution of atmosphere and hydrosphere. Examine differences between Earths
    and Mars atmospheres and comment if Mans desire to colonise Mars is practical or not.
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 2
    3. How does earthquake help study the interior of the Earth? Also examine why its necessary to
    study earths interior.
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 3
    4. Bring about the basic difference between the drift theory and Plate tectonics.
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 4
    5. What are the evidences in support of the continental drift theory?
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 5
    6. What are metamorphic rocks? Describe the types of metamorphic rock and how are they
    formed?
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 6
    7. Mass movements can be grouped under three major classes: (i) slow movements; (ii) rapid
    movements; (iii) landslides. Differentiate between these three. Also examine causes of
    landslides in the Western Himalayan region.
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 6
    8. Limestones behave differently in humid and arid climates. Why? What is the dominant and
    almost exclusive geomorphic process in limestone areas and what are its results?
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 7

    9. Why is troposphere the most important of all the layers of the atmosphere? How does climate
    change affect atmospheric composition and its dynamics?
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 8
    10. How do the latitude and the tilt in the axis of rotation of the earth affect the amount of
    radiation received at the earths surface?
    Source: Class XI NCERT Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter - 9

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