Lesson-8. Human Environment - Settlements, Means of Transport and Communication
Exercise
1. Write down the answers of the
following questions in approximately 1-15 words:
1.
How does agriculture affect human settlement?
2.
Where did people live, first of all?
3.
How does a topography of a place affect the development of human settlement of
a place?
4.
How are roadways important?
II. Write down the answers of the
following questions in approximately 50-60 words:
1.
Write down the importance of railways while explaining them.
2.
Write about the important waterways/ocean routes of the world.
3.
Write about the internal waterways?
4.
World has become a Global Village with the development of Airways, illustrate
the fact with example. 5. Explain various waterways of the world and name
seaports of India.
6.
Which are the means of communication, what is the advantage of their
development.
7.
Write in detain about Suez Canal.
III. Write the answer to these question
in 125-130 words:
1.
What are the factors that affect the development of human settlement?
2.
Explain in detail about the water ways.
3.
What contribution has the means of transportation towards the development of
human settlement.
Activities
With
the help of Atlas and the Teacher:
1.
Show the Suez Canal and Panama Canal on the world map.
2.
Show important airways on the world map.
