Understanding Diversity in India

 Understanding Diversity in India

Q.1. How is the variety found in the Republic of India based on diversity?

Q.2. Which natural diversities are there in India?

Q.3. Describe the geographical diversity present in India?

Q.4. What is included in the culture of a country?

Q.5. Describe the cultural diversity of India?

Q.6. What is religion? Name some religious communities?

Q.7. Describe the religious diversity of India?

Q.8. How many natural languages are there in India?

Q.9. Mention 22 national languages.

Q.10. Describe how language forms a natural diversity.

Q.11. Describe how there is diversity in dance and music.

Q.12. Mention different classical dances?

Q.13. What forms the Artificial or man made diversity?

Q.14. How does historical basis form a diversity?

Q.15. Describe how family structure has changed?

Q.16. Describe how occupation forms a diversity?

Q.17. What is the classification of division of work?

Q.18. How is the caste system a diversity?

Q.19. Describe the diversity of India explaining life in Kerala and Ladakh?

Q.20. Why is diversity needed in a society?

Q.21. How geographical factors unite our country?

Q.22. How do historical factors unite our country?

Q.23. How do political factors unite our country?

Q.24. How do cultural factors unite our country?

India : Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

 India : Natural Vegetation and Wildlife

Q.1. Which natural resources are gifted to our country by nature?

Q.2. What is natural vegetation?

Q.3. What is the classification of India based on climatic conditions and soil type?

Q.4. Where are the tropical rainforests found?

Q.5. Which trees are found in tropical rainforests?

Q.6. Why are evergreen forests called evergreen?

Q.7. How much rainfall tropical rainforests get?

Q.8. Where are the tropical deciduous forests found?

Q.9. How much rainfall tropical deciduous forests get?

Q.10. Which trees are found in the tropical deciduous forests?

Q.11. What is the other name for tropical deciduous forests?

Q.12. How much rainfall the thorny forests get?

Q.13. Which trees are found in the thorny forests?

Q.14. Which features are shown by trees of the thorny forests?

Q.15. Where are the thorny forests found?

Q.16. Where are the tidal forests found?

Q.17. Which trees are found in the tidal forests?

Q.18. Tidal forests are also known as?

Q.19. Where are the coniferous trees found?

Q.20. Name some coniferous trees?

Q.21. What is included in subtropical hill vegetation?

Q.22. Where are plants of Alpine families found?

Q.23. What is the use of Sundri trees?

Q.24. What is conservation?

Q.25. Which steps have been taken for conservation?

Q.26. What is afforestation?

Q.27. Which animals are found in our forests?

Q.28. The number of which species of animals is limited? Name some.

Q.29. When is wildlife week observed?

Q.30. Name two species of wildlife which became endangered?

Q.31. Name two species which may become extinct?

Q.32. Which steps must be taken to conserve wildlife?

Q.33. What is the full form of WWF?

Q.34. What is the full form of CNNR?

Q.35. Name three places where bird and wildlife sanctuaries are established?

Q.36. Name some places where wildlife sanctuaries are located?

Q.37. Where are the natural parks located?

Q.38. How many tiger projects are there and in how many states?

Climate of India

 Climate of India

Q.1. What causes four seasons in India?

Q.2. Which are the four distinct seasons in India?

Q.3. Describe the cold weather season?

Q.4. Describe the hot weather season?

Q.5. What are mango showers?

Q.6. Describe the season of the advancing monsoon?

Q.7. Which coast remains dry in the advancing monsoon?

Q.8. Describe the season of the retreating monsoon?

Q.9. What is called the October heat?

India: Our Motherland

 India : Our Motherland

Q.1. What is the location and size of India?

Q.2. How many states and Union Territories does India have?

Q.3. Name three recently formed states?

Q.4. Which states have a common boundary with Pakistan?

Q.5. Which states have a common boundary with China?

Q.6. Which states have a common boundary with Bangladesh?

Q.7. Which states are along the sea coast?

Q.8. Which states are known as seven sisters?

Q.9. Which countries share land boundaries with India?

Q.10. Which countries are included in the Indian subcontinent?

Q.11. Which are the five physiographic divisions of India?

Q.12. What is the east-west extent of the mountain ranges along the Northern boundary of our country?

Q.13. What does the word Himalayas mean?

Q.14. Which are the three parallel ranges of the Himalayas?

Q.15. Which is the northernmost range of the Himalayas?

Q.16. What are Purvanchal Hills?

Q.17. Name some hill stations of the Himachal Range?

Q.18. What are ‘duns’? Give an example?

Q.19. Describe the Northern plains?

Q.20. Which are the three parts of the Northern Plains?

Q.21. What is the origin of the Indus river?

Q.22. Where is Indus plain located?

Q.23. Name the tributaries of the Indus?

Q.24. Name the tributaries of the Ganga?

Q.25. Where is the origin of Brahmaputra?

Q.26. What is the name of Brahmaputra in Tibet?

Q.27. Name one tributary of Brahmaputra?

Q.28. Which kind of rocks are found in the Great Indian Plateau?

Q.29. The Narmada river divides the Great Indian Plateau into which two parts?

Q.30. What forms the boundaries of the Central Highlands?

Q.31. The western part of the Central Highlands are known as?

Q.32. What forms the Western Ghats?

Q.33. Name the highest peak in the Deccan plateau?

Q.34. Which rivers flow in the Eastern Ghats?

Q.35. Where do the Eastern and the Western ghats converge?

Q.36. Which region is covered by the Deccan trap?

Q.37. Which two rivers fall into the Arabian Sea?

Q.38. Which is the longest river of south India?

Q.39. What forms the western coastal plain?

Q.40. Name two natural harbors of India?

Q.41. What forms the eastern coastal plain?

Q.42. What is the name of the Indian desert?

Q.43. Name the two groups of islands of India?

India after the Mauryan Period (200 BC to AD 300)

 India after the Mauryan Period (200 BC to AD 300)

Q.1. Name the important invaders between 200 BC and AD 300.

Q.2. The life of the Tamils was based on what during 200 BC and AD 300?

Q.3. What was a Sangam?

Q.4. Traces of which life can be found in Sangam Literature?

Q.5. Which literatures are sources of Sangam Literature?

Q.6. Describe Sangam Literature?

Q.7. State the places where Indians established their colonies?

Q.8. Describe Angkor Wat?

Q.9. Describe how Indian culture exists in Bali?

Q.10. Which is the biggest stupa in the world? Where is it located?

Q.11. Which stupa is known as the eighth wonder of the world? Why?

Q.12. Arabs call their numerals by which name?

Q.13. Which materials were exported to European countries and which were imported?

Q.14. Which style of art was influenced by Greek and Roman culture during the Kushana Period?

Q.15. Which tribes came to India from Central Asia after the Mauryan Period?

Q.16. Who were called Indo-Greeks or Bactrian Greeks?

Q.17. Describe the reign of Manander, an Indo-Greek ruler?

Q.18. Who converted Milinda to Buddhism?

Q.19. Which fields were influenced by Greek influence from 200 BC to AD 300?

Q.20. Which art is also known as Greco-Buddhist art?

Q.21. The Greek system of medicine is known by what name?

Q.22. Who was the most famous Saka king? Describe his reign?

Q.23. Who is a Satrap?

Q.24. Who were the Sakas?

Q.25. Who were the Kushanas?

Q.26. Who was Kanishka?

Q.27. Name the capital of Kushana rulers during the Kanishka period?

Q.28. Which religion was embraced by Kanishka?

Q.29. What was the contribution of Kanishka towards Buddhism?

Q.30. Which great Indian physician lived in the court of Kanishka?

Q.31. How did Kanishka administer his provinces?

Q.32. Buddhism was divided into which two major sects after the Fourth Buddhist Council?

Q.33. Who held the Fourth Buddhist council?

Q.34. Which two different styles of art flourished between 200 BC and AD 300?

Q.35. What were the features of Gandhara School of Art?

Q.36. Where did the Gandhara School of Art develop?

Q.37. Explain the Mathura School of Art.

Q.38. How many sects did Buddhism have before the Fourth Buddhist Council?

Q.39. What was the belief of Mahayana and Hinayana?

Q.40. India had trade relations with which countries during 5 centuries after the Mauryan Period?

Q.41. Which statue was destroyed by the Talibans?

Q.42. Which words were used for Letter Carrier and Messenger during the Ashoka and Kanishka period?

Q.43. Which route acted as the main artery for the spread of Buddhism to China?

Q.44. Name two Chinese pilgrims who came to India through the Silk route?

Q.45. Which famous Buddhist Monk went to China to spread Buddhism?

Q.46. Who were sent by Ashoka to spread Buddhism in Sri Lanka?

Questions : My India - Clothing Style

 My India - Clothing Style

Q.1. Our dress depends on which factor?

Q.2. What do most women in India wear? How is it different in different states? 

Q.3. How can we guess the name of the state by looking at a woman?

Q.4. Name the popular dresses of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Southern States.

Q.5. What is a long skirt worn by a woman in Sikkim called?

Q.6. Which dress is popular among the younger generation?

Q.7. What is the name of the long woolen coat worn by men and women in Kashmir?

Q.8. What do men living in cities wear?

Q.9. Which dress is popular among men in North India and  Central India?

Q.10. What do men wear in Punjab?

Q.11. What do men wear in Rajasthan?

Q.12. What do men wear in Kerala and what is it called?

Q.13. What do men wear in Tamil Nadu and what is it called?

Q.14. Which dresses are worn on special occasions?

Q.15. What are special dresses worn by Professionals called?

Q.16. When do children wear uniforms?

Q.17. Name some people who wear different uniforms.

Questions : My India - Festivals We Celebrate

 My India-Festivals We Celebrate

Q.1. What are festivals?

Q.2. Why do we celebrate festivals?

Q.3. Name five national festivals?

Q.4. Why is Independence Day celebrated?

Q.5. When is Independence day celebrated?

Q.6. How is Independence day celebrated?

Q.7. When did India become a republic?

Q.8. Which day is celebrated as Republic Day?

Q.9. How is Republic Day celebrated?

Q.10. What does republic mean?

Q.11. When is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated?

Q.12. Why is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated?

Q.13. Who is the Father of the Nation?

Q.14. We call our Father of the Nation with which name?

Q.15. How is Gandhi Jayanti celebrated?

Q.16. When is Children’s Day celebrated?

Q.17. Why is Children’s Day celebrated?

Q.18. How is Children’s Day celebrated?

Q.19. When is the birthday of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru?

Q.20. Who was our first Prime Minister?

Q.21. By what name was Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru called by Children?

Q.22. When is Teacher’s Day celebrated?

Q.23. Why is Teacher’s Day celebrated?

Q.24. How is Teacher’s Day celebrated?

Q.25. Name nine religious festivals?

Q.26. Why is Diwali Celebrated?

Q.27. How is Diwali celebrated?

Q.28. Who is the Goddess of wealth and prosperity?

Q.29. What are the bad effects of crackers?

Q.30. Why is Dussehra celebrated?

Q.31. How is Dussehra celebrated?

Q.32. How is Dussehra celebrated in West Bengal?

Q.33. Why is Holi celebrated?

Q.34. How is Holi celebrated?

Q.35. When is Christmas celebrated?

Q.36. Why is Christmas celebrated?

Q.37. How is Christmas celebrated?

Q.38. Why is Good Friday celebrated?

Q.39. What is Easter?

Q.40. Why is Easter celebrated?

Q.41. Who celebrates Diwali?

Q.42. Who celebrates Dussehra?

Q.43. Who celebrates Holi?

Q.44. Who celebrates Christmas?

Q.45. Who celebrates Good Friday?

Q.46. Who celebrates Easter?

Q.47. Who celebrates Eid?

Q.48. When is Eid celebrated?

Q.49. How is Eid celebrated?

Q.50. Name the special sweet dish prepared on Eid.

Q.51. Who celebrates Guruparv?

Q.52. Why is Guruparv celebrated?

Q.53. How is Guruparv celebrated?

Q.54. Who is the Goddess of learning and the arts?

Q.55. When is Basant Panchami celebrated?

Q.56. How is Basant Panchami celebrated?

Q.57. Whose festival is Raksha Bandhan?

Q.58. How is Raksha Bandhan celebrated?

Q.59. What are Harvest Festivals?

Q.60. Name four harvest festivals?

Q.61. Which is the main harvest festival of Kerala?

Q.62. When is Onam celebrated?

Q.63. How is Onam celebrated?

Q.64. Onam lasts for how many days?

Q.65. Name the main harvest festival of Tamil Nadu.

Q.66. Pongal lasts for how many days?

Q.67. How is Pongal celebrated?

Q.68. Name the harvest festival of Assam.

Q.69. How is Bihu celebrated?

Q.70. Name the harvest festival of Punjab.

Q.71. When is Baisakhi celebrated?

Q.72. How is Baisakhi celebrated?

Q.73. What is Buddha Purnima?

Q.74. What is Mahavir Jayanti?

Q.75. What are the forms of recreation other than festivals?

Questions : My India - Food Habits

 My India- Food Habits

Q.1. How many states and union territories does India have?

Q.2. The climate of an area depends on what factors?

Q.3. Name one state which receives plenty of rainfall?

Q.4. Name one state which receives hardly any rainfall?

Q.5. Name one place where winters are very cold?

Q.6. Name one state where winters are pleasant?

Q.7. How does the variation of climate affect us?

Q.8. On what factor does the food habit of people depend?

Q.9. On what factors does the crops grown in an area depend?

Q.10. What do people in North India eat more?

Q.11. What do people in Gangetic Plains and South India eat more?

Q.12. Which food items are popular in Rajasthan?

Q.13. What do people eat in eastern India?

Q.14. Name some food items which are popular in all parts of the country.

Q.15. What do non vegetarians eat?

Q.16. What do vegetarians eat?

Q.17. What do you mean by seasonal items?

Q.18. Where is tea and coffee grown?

Q.19. Kashmir is famous for which fruits?

Q.20. Which fruit is grown in Ladakh?

Q.22. Which state is famous for its apples?

Q.23. Which fruit is found all over India in summer?

Q.24. Coconut is grown in which part of India?

Q.25. For which fruit is Nagpur famous?

Q.26. Where are pineapples grown in India?

Q.27. Which oils are used in North India?

Q.28. Which oils are used in south India?

Q.29. Why are Indian foods famous all over the world?

Q.30. Name five spices?

Q.31. What is the use of saffron?

Q.32. Which popular dessert is served in winter?

Q.33. Name the favorite food items of southern states?

Q.34. Name some fast foods?

Q.35. Name two mostly used milk products used in Northern states?

Q.36. Name the famous food items of Punjab.

Questions : Occupations in India

 Occupations in India

Q.1. What do we need to lead a happy life?

Q.2. What is an occupation?

Q.3. People choose their occupation according to what?

Q.4. What are the different types of occupation in our country?

Q.5. Which is the most important occupation of our country?

Q.6. What do people do in agriculture?

Q.7. How much of the population of India lives in villages?

Q.8. Which different crops farmers grow?

Q.9. What is essential for the growth of crops?

Q.10. Name two occupations closely related to agriculture?

Q.11. What do we do in cattle rearing?

Q.12. Which animals people domesticate in cattle rearing?

Q.13. We get milk from which animals?

Q.14. How are bullocks helpful to us?

Q.15. What do sheeps provide?

Q.16. Where are sheeps reared?

Q.17. What is dairy farming?

Q.18. Animals are reared for which products?

Q.19. What is poultry farming?

Q.20. Forests are storehouses of what?

Q.21. What products do we get from the rubber tree?

Q.22. Name two products obtained from forests?

Q.23. Why do people collect pulp of softwood from the forests?

Q.24. What is used to make bidis?

Q.25. How is forest helpful in relation to fruit and vegetables?

Q.26. What is fishing?

Q.27. Where is fishing done?

Q.28. Which kind of food do we get from fish?

Q.29. How is fish oil obtained and how is it helpful?

Q.30. What is done to sell fish at far off places?

Q.31. What is mining?

Q.32. What is a metal obtained from minerals?

Q.33. Which metals do we obtain from minerals?

Q.34. Name the products manufactured from metals?

Q.35. What is an industry?

Q.36. Where is cotton cloth made?

Q.37. Name the products obtained from jute fibre?

Q.38. Which products are obtained from sugarcane and what is used to obtain them?

Q.39. Name seven raw materials which are used in industries.

Q.40. Cooking oil is obtained from what?

Q.41. What products do we obtain from milk?

Q.42. Name two hot drinks?

Q.43. Name some new occupations in which people are engaged?