How do the monsoon affect cultivation in India? -SST 10th

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Agriculture in India depends on monsoon rains. It can sometime bring very heavy rain and cause flood and sometimes dry spells can lead to drought conditions.

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Description : State two important characteristic features of the monsoon rainfall in India. -SST 10th

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Last Answer : Deciduous trees. Teak is the most valuable. The trees of the monsoon forests are very valuable because they are hard, durable and useful in construction work and furniture. Hence the government has declared them as ‘reserves’ to prevent the cutting down of trees.

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Last Answer : These regions get moderate rain, 100 - 200 cm. They cover the lower slopes of the Western Himalayas, the eastern slopes, of the Western Ghats comprising parts of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh.

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Last Answer : The most important feature of the tropical monsoon type of climate is alternation of Seasons.

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Last Answer : The word Monsoon is derived from the Arabic language which means Mansoon or weather.

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Last Answer : Characteristics of SW monsoon are: (i) Orographic in nature. (ii) Uncertain in amount and time.

Description : What is the direction of the summer monsoon? -SST 10th

Last Answer : South West. The intense heat that prevails over India causes the development of low pressure over the northern plains. It attracts the moisture bearing South East Trade winds from the southern hemisphere. ... they are deflected to the right and blow over India as the south west monsoon winds.

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Last Answer : By mid-September the South-West monsoon begins to withdraw from the Indian sub-continent. The retreating process gets accelerated gradually as the pressure over the land gets higher than the Sea. Cool winds begin to blow from the north and the South-West monsoon starts moving backward.

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Last Answer : The dominant characteristics of monsoon are: (i) Seasonal reversal of direction in the winds system. The monsoon winds blow from land to Sea in winters and from Sea to land in summers. (ii) ... conditions, it unites the whole sub-continent in a single climatic thread of monsoon type of climate.

Description : Mention why does sub-continent have Tropical Monsoon climate. -SST 10th

Last Answer : Due to the pressure system, which is well developed over the land and Sea and due to the presence of a large land mass, and water body. Differential heating and cooling of land and water is the chief cause of the Tropical Monsoon type of climate.

Description : Explain the term ‘Burst of Monsoon’. -SST 10th

Last Answer : The sudden outbreak of the monsoon winds with an intensifying low pressure over the north-western part of the sub-continent, associated by thunder and lightning is called the ‘Burst of Monsoon’.

Description : Explain the term Retreating Monsoon. -SST 10th

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Description : Write two main characteristics of the Deciduous Monsoon Forests. -SST 10th

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Description : Monsoon forests are commercially very important. -SST 10th

Last Answer : The monsoon forest trees are hard and durable. They are used for furniture and construction.

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Last Answer : (i) The trees in the monsoon deciduous forests provide useful wood and are economically very important. (ii) Trees like Teak and Sal are termite resistant woods.

Description : Irrigation is necessary despite the monsoon. -SST 10th

Last Answer : Indian monsoons are most uncertain. Late arrival or early withdrawal of the monsoon affects crop production severely. Only irrigation can provide security to agriculture from such irregularity.

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Description : Has anyone been to India in Monsoon season?

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Description : 1. Name an area in India where Tropical Monsoon forest is found. -Geography

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Description : Explain how monsoon acts as a unifying bond in India. Give examples. -Geography 9th

Last Answer : Monsoon acts as a unifying bond. Monsoon acts as a unifying bond because, through the rains, the agricultural activities in the country are possible which connects every part by transportation, production, ... . The river valleys which carry this water also unite as a single river valley unit.

Description : Crop sown soon after the onset of south-west monsoon in India, what is this called? -Do You Know?

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Description : Date of Monsoon withdrawal in India

Last Answer : Ans. 31 st Sept.

Description : Date of onset of Monsoon in India

Last Answer : Ans. 1 st June

Description : The monsoon covers 75% rainfall in India

Last Answer : Ans. Southwest monsoon

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Description : Which of the following causes rainfall during winters in the north-western part of India? (1) Western disturbances (2) Cyclonic depression (3) Southwest monsoon (4) Retreating monsoon

Last Answer : (1) Western disturbances Explanation: A Western Disturbance is an extratropical storm originating in the Mediterranean region that brings sudden rain to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent ... westerlies. Western Disturbances are important for the development of the Rabi crop (wheat).

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Last Answer : (2) Kharif Explanation: Kharif crops refer to the planting, cultivation and harvesting of any domesticated plant sown in the rain} (monsoon) season on the Asian subcontinent. Suet crops are planted ... usually sown with the ginning of the first rains in July, during the south-west monsoon season.

Description : The South West monsoon engulfs the entire India by – (1) 5th June (2) 15th June (3) 1st July (4) 15th July

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Description : Give the characteristics and effects of the monsoon rainfall in India.

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