PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT LANDFORMS

PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT LANDFORMS

Humans have been living in different kinds of landforms in different ways. Life is difficult in mountainous areas. Plains provide much better conditions. It is easy to grow crops, build a house, or a road in a plain than a mountain. Can you point out some differences in the ways people live on different kinds of landforms? Sometimes, natural calamities such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storms, and floods cause widespread destruction. Huge loss of life and property takes place. By creating awareness about such incidences, we may lower the risks.

You may find out from your own surroundings in how many ways we use the land and water. Quite often we use the land in a wasteful manner, for example constructing houses on fertile land. Similarly, we throw garbage on land or in water making them dirty. We should avoid using such important gifts of nature in a careless manner. The available land is not only for our use. It is our duty to leave the earth a better place for future generations as well.

Figure: A polluted river

Figure: Rope Bridge (Arunachal Pradesh)

Do you know?

Swachh Bharat Mission: Healthy mind lives in a healthy body and for a healthy body clean environment particularly clean water, air, and hygienic surroundings are pre-requisites. Swachh Bharat Mission, a government of India Programme aims to achieve all these for people.

Activity:

Let’s Do

1.Look carefully at photograph nos. 1-10. Write one sentence about each of the photographs.

2.Name the landform features shown in the photograph nos. 1,2 and 7.

3.What appears to be the main use of this land? (Photograph no. 9)

4.What activities do you see in the photograph nos. 3,6,8 and 9.

5.What type of houses do you see in photograph nos. 4 and 5.

6.Name the water sports/games shown in photograph nos. 3 & 8.

7.Name two means of transport shown in photograph nos. 1 and 10.

Source: This Topic is taken from NCERT TEXTBOOK.