Answer: The part of land touching the ocean is called sea-coast or sea shore.
2. What is Beach?
Answer: The high and long sea waves brings sand, sells and many other things and deposit them on the shore and that are converted into a sand field called Beach.
3. What is Cliff?
Answer: At some places sea-shores are like straight walls and sea waves strike it called Cliff.
4. What is Bay?
Answer: The land part from three sides and sea water on one side called Bay.
5. What are Mangrove forests?
Answer: Mangrove forests are thick forests in which the roots of the trees are above the water surface.
6. What is port?
Answer: The place along the sea coast from where the ships move to and fro. The goods are lodged and de-lodged here.
7. Which is the southern most port of India?
Answer: Tuticorin
| 8. Fill in the blanks: |
a) The eastern coast is on the Bay of Bengal while the Western coast is near ………………Sea.
Answer: Arabian
b) The Eastern coast is wide while the western coast is …………….
Answer: narrow
c) Krishna and Kaveri rivers fall in…………….after originating from………….ghats.
Answer: Bay of Bengal, Western
d) …………crops are cultivated mainly in the coastal region of India.
Answer: Rice
e) The land part surrounded by water on three sides is called………..
Answer: Peninsula
| 9. Put right or wrong mark on right or wrong statements. |
- a) The Lakshdweep island is situated in the Bay of Bengal (wrong)
- b) It rains a lot on the western coast of India (right)
- c) Kerala is situated on the eastern coast (wrong)
- d) Salt is made from drying sea water (right)
- e) Sundarban delta is made by Ganga and Brahmaputra rivers (right)
- f) Kanyakumari is in Karnataka state (wrong)
| 10. Match the correct facts: |
| A | B |
|---|---|
| i) Lakshdweep | a) Maharashtra |
| ii) Mumbai Port | b) West Bengal |
| iii) Kanyakumari | c) Islands |
| iv) Sundarban | d) Karnataka |
| v) Mangalore | e) Tamil Nadu |
| Answer: i) – c, ii) –a, iii) – e, iv) – b, v) – d |
| 11. Answer these questions: |
a) What is an Island?
Answer: A small piece of land surrounded by the sea from all four sides called Island.
b) Write the names of states situated on the Arabian sea-coast.
Answer: Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat
c) On which sea coast is Odisha situated?
Answer: Odisha is situated at Eastern sea coast.
d) Why is there plenty of rainfall on the western coast of India?
Answer: Due to Western Ghats there is plenty of rainfall in the western coast of India.
e) In which state is Kanyakumari located?
Answer: Kanyakumari is located in Tamil Nadu.
f) Why is the eastern coast having cuts?
Answer: Many rivers fall into the eastern ghats that is why have cuts.
g) Write the name of four ports of eastern coast.
Answer: 1. Nagapattinam, 2. Chennai, 3. Visakhapatnam, 4. Paradip
h) Which two rivers contribute to make the Sunderbans?
Answer: Ganga and Brahmaputra make Sunderbans.
i) Write any two benefits of coast.
Answer: 1. We trade from other countries through ports on the sea coast and 2. Good climate and beautiful scenery of coast attract the tourist that provides employment to the local people
