Exercise - Question:
Que: Answer the following questions.
(i) What are the Temperate Grasslands of North America called?
(ii) What are the cattle farms in the North American Grasslands known as?
(iii) Name the rivers that drain the Velds.
(iv) When is the rainy season in the Velds?
(v) What is the major occupation of the people of the South African grasslands?
Ans:
(i) Prairies.
(ii) Ranches.
(iii) (a) River Orange and (b) River Limpopo.
(iv) The velds receive rainfall mainly in summer months from November to Febraury.
(v) (a) Sheep rearing, (b) dairy farming and (iii) mining.
Que: Tick the correct answer.
(i) River Mississippi drains
(a) Canada
(b) Africa
(c) USA
(ii) Drakensberg Mountains are to the west of
(a) Prairies
(b) Velds
(c) Pampas
(iii) Merino is a species of
(a) fish
(b) elephant
(c) sheep
(iv) Kimberley is famous for
(a) diamonds
(b) silver
(c) platinum
Ans:
(i) - (c)
(ii) - (b)
(iii) - (c)
(iv) - (a)
Que: Match the following.
(i) Cowboys (a) Iron and Steel
(ii) Gold (b) Prairies
(iii) Kudu (c) Hot wind
(iv) Chinook (d) Velds
(v) Coal (e) Johannesberg
(f) Animal
Ans:
| Column I | Column II |
| (i) Cowboys | (b) Prariries |
| (ii) Gold | (e) Johannesberg |
| (iii) Kundu | (f) Animal |
| (iv) Chinook | (c) Hot wind |
| (v) Coal | (a) Iron and steal |
Que: Give reasons.
(i) The Prairies are known as the ‘Granaries of the World’.
(ii) Rise of wool industry in the Velds.
Ans:
(i) Due to the huge surprise of wheat production.
(ii) Good variety of sheeps (merino) is found here whose wool is very warm.
Que: Map skills:
On an outline map of North America, mark the Rocky mountains, the Great
Lakes, river Mississippi, river Saskatchewan, the cities – Chicago and Winnipeg.
Ans:
