The cards Question Where is India located? Tap to flip Answer Just north of the Equator, in southern Asia. Question Is India much smaller than Greenland? Tap to flip Answer No. They are similar in size, although India looks much smaller on some world map projections. Question In a GIS, what is a layer? Tap to flip Answer A visual representation of geographic data on a digital map, such as population density, income levels or land use. Question What type of climate does most of India have? Tap to flip Answer A tropical monsoon climate. Question How many seasons does most of India have? Tap to flip Answer Three. Question Which place in India is one of the wettest places on Earth? Tap to flip Answer Cherrapunjee. Question Why does India have a varied climate? Tap to flip Answer Because of its large size and diverse landscape. Question What is the difference between weather and climate? Tap to flip Answer Weather is day-to-day atmospheric conditions; climate is the average of weather over a long period, usually 30 years or more. Question What is a monsoon? Tap to flip Answer A seasonal change in wind direction that brings a very rainy season or a very dry season. Question In India, which monsoon occurs during the summer? Tap to flip Answer The south-west monsoon. Question In India, which monsoon occurs in the winter months? Tap to flip Answer The north-east monsoon. Question What causes the change in wind direction during the monsoon? Tap to flip Answer A difference in pressure over the land and the ocean. Question How is climate change affecting the monsoon rains? Tap to flip Answer Making them more erratic and unpredictable. Question Give one biome found in India. Tap to flip Answer e.g. desert, savanna or forest. Question Which large desert is partly found in India? Tap to flip Answer The Great Thar desert. Question Which tropical forests in India are one of the most biodiverse places on Earth? Tap to flip Answer The tropical forests of the Western Ghats. Question Which region is the tropical climate zone? Tap to flip Answer The region between the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the south. Question What is a mangrove? Tap to flip Answer A shrub or tree that grows in coastal water and has roots that grow above ground. Question In which bay are the Sundarbans found? Tap to flip Answer The Bay of Bengal (north-east India and south-west Bangladesh). Question Give one animal the Sundarbans are known for. Tap to flip Answer e.g. the royal Bengal tiger or the estuarine crocodile. Question How many wildlife sanctuaries are there in the Sundarbans? Tap to flip Answer Three. Question What is a wildlife sanctuary? Tap to flip Answer An area where wild animals and plants and their habitats are protected. Question Why is India's population unevenly distributed? Tap to flip Answer Because of different physical and human factors. Question Give one sparsely populated rural area of India. Tap to flip Answer e.g. much of the Himalayas. Question What is cultural diversity? Tap to flip Answer The variety of cultural and ethnic groups within a society. Question Give one reason people may migrate from rural to urban areas in India. Tap to flip Answer e.g. work, education, family, better services, living environment or safety. Question What is a megacity? Tap to flip Answer A city with a population of more than 10 million people. Question What is a global city? Tap to flip Answer A city that is a major centre for trade and communication with other places around the world. Question Are all global cities megacities? Tap to flip Answer No. Not all global cities are megacities. Question Which city is the financial capital of India? Tap to flip Answer Mumbai. Question In which city is Bollywood, a major Indian film industry, based? Tap to flip Answer Mumbai. Question What was Mumbai once, before it grew significantly? Tap to flip Answer A small fishing port. Question What are transnational corporations? Tap to flip Answer Large businesses that operate in many different countries globally. Question Give one large transnational corporation based in Mumbai. Tap to flip Answer e.g. Tata or the State Bank of India. Question When are people thought to have first inhabited Mumbai? Tap to flip Answer In the Stone Age, hundreds of thousands of years ago. Question What is an informal settlement? Tap to flip Answer An area of makeshift housing where residents don't own the land or have access to services like clean water, power or sanitation. Question What is inequality? Tap to flip Answer When something is not shared evenly between everyone. Question Besides money, give one way people's lives can be unequal. Tap to flip Answer e.g. access to education and health care, quality of housing, job opportunities or how people are treated. Question What is a global superpower? Tap to flip Answer A country that has a lot of power or influence over other countries in the world. Question Give one factor that can make a global superpower powerful. Tap to flip Answer e.g. economic, cultural, population or resources. Question Give one extreme event becoming more frequent and severe in India because of climate change. Tap to flip Answer e.g. droughts, flooding or heatwaves. Question What is renewable energy? Tap to flip Answer Energy from sources that can be re-used and will not be used up or run out. Question Is everyone impacted by climate change equally? Tap to flip Answer No. Everyone is affected, but some people and places are impacted more than others. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Geography Unit India: a global superpower? England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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Show the other sources (10) Primary source Evaluating India's status as a global superpower (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Climate change in India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The climate of India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Monsoon season in India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The biomes of India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Coastal India: the Sundarbans (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source The population of India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Rural to urban migration in India (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Mumbai: A global city (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Opportunities in Mumbai (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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