Class 6 Social Science: Chapter 03 Kerala: The Land, the Rain, and the People - Questions and Answers | Teaching Manual


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Kerala: The Land, the Rain, and the People- Questions and Answers & Model Questions
1. Which is the staple food of Keralites?
Answer: Rice

2. From which states does rice come to Kerala?
Answer: Seemandhra and Odisha

3. what are the essential factors required for cultivation?
Answer:
• Fertile soil
• Favourable climate
• Availability of water
• Manpower

4. How many rivers are there in Kerala?
Answer: 44

5. How many rivers are there in Tamilnadu?
Answer: 14

6. What are the major soil type in Kerala?
Answer:
• Alluvial soil
• Laterite soil
• Forest soil
• Red soil

7. What are the major soil types in Tamilnadu?
Answer: Red soil, Black soil, Laterite soil, Coastal alluvium

8. Which soil is best suited for cultivation?
Answer: Alluvial soil

9. What is the classification of Keralas topography based on elevation above sea level?
Answer: 
• Highland
• Midland
• lowland

10. which is the highest point above sea level?
Answer: Highland

11. Name the physiographic region which is part of the Sahyadri ranges?
Answer: Highland

12. Highland is located on the side of which mountain ranges?
Answer: Sahyadri

13. what are the geographical factors required for the cultivation of Cardamom and tea crops?
Answer: 
• Temperature below 30° Celsius
• Abundant rainfall
• Well-drained soil

14. Who is the father of rubber cultivation in India?
Answer: John Joseph Murphy

15. which are the crops that the Highland region is suitable for? Make a list. (Page 36)
Answer: Coffee, cardamom, tea, pepper, ginger, turmeric etc...

16. Why can these crops (Spices) be cultivated in the Highland 
Answer:  
Comparatively cold region. 
The temperature will be low in those places. 
So it is suitable for the cultivation of garden crops.
17. Write the temperature of the highland?
Answer: below 30 degrees celsius

18. What type of crops made Kerala the favourite destination of foreigners?
Answer: Spices

19. Which is the region with the highest crop diversity in Kerala?
Answer: Midland

20. What are the major crops grown in midland?
Answer: Cereals, vegetables, Tuber crops, paddy, coconut, rubber, sugar cane, sweet potato, etc.....

21 Which is the chief commercial crop of Kerala?
Answer: Rubber

22. What are the geographical factors that contribute to crop diversity in midland?
Answer: Abundant rainfall, moderately thick layers of alluvial soil in the river basins, and laterite soil along the hilly tracts are favourable geographical factors for the crop diversity in the midland region.

23. Farmers are turning to rubber cultivation instead of traditional crops. what could be the reason? What changes could this have brought in the Lifestyle? (Page 37)
Answer: The custom here was to cultivate everything a family needed in the backyard. Growing everything a family needed on the farm was not a profit but a means of producing enough for the regular needs of the family. This approach was the reason for the health and happiness of Keralites.
But today everyone chooses a single crop for economic gain. Rubber is an example of this. 
In the place where vegetables were grown everyone grew rubber. People got into the habit of buying and using food, using the income earned from rubber. Which led to many Lifestyle diseases

24 Which physiographic unit lies close to the sea level?
Answer: Lowland

25. What are the major crops in Lowland?
Answer: Coconut, paddy, sugarcane, plantain, areca nut

26. Which type of soil is ideal for paddy cultivation?
Answer: Alluvial soil

27. Name the crop that the highland region is not suitable for?
Answer: plantain

28. Which crop is cultivated in coastal stretches?
Answer: Coconut

29. Which soil is most suitable for coconut cultivation?
Answer: Saline alluvial soil

30. Haven't you understood that the physiography, climate, availability of water, and fertility of the soil in Kerala are ideal for the cultivation of a variety of crops? Still our Discuss the situation that led to this. (Page 37)
Answer: 
• Paddy fields are used for other profitable cultivations. 
• When there is an increase in the production cost and lack of labour in the fields are left barren. 
• Less profit. 
• Climate change 

31. What were the reasons for the decline in paddy production in our country?
Answer: 
• The use of Agricultural lands for other purposes ( for example land is filled up and factories and other buildings are built). 
• Use of the land for other cultivations which are more profitable than paddy cultivation. 
• Less price of products compared to the production cost. 
• Scarcity of water.
• Lack of interest in hard work.
32. What are the steps we need to take to increase paddy production?
Do not fill up the paddy fields.
Answer: Cultivate pulses as intercrops to increase the fertility of the soil.
Use the seed having high yielding and resisting power. Use organic Manual. Do not use agricultural land for other purposes.

33. How does the reduction in the cultivable land area affect the agricultural sector? discuss(Page 39)
Answer:  Decreasing agricultural production. Agricultural production decreases we have to depend on other states for food materials. So naturally, the price of foodstuff increases. Agricultural labourers lose their jobs.

34. What are Lifestyle diseases?
Answer: Hypertension, heart diseases, diabetes.

35. List the changes that occurred in the lifestyle of Keralites who shifted from the agro-based culture?
Answer: Our old generation worked hard in forms and fields. So they did not have any special exercise. But in the modern machine age, physical labour is less used. it results in many diseases.

36. What is the major problems faced by the Keralites who shifted from rural life to urban one?
Answer: Waste disposal.

37. What are the different biowaste treatment methods?
Answer: Compost, earthworm compost, Vermi wash.

38. Method of cultivating without soil?
Answer: Hydroponics.

39. Which is a farming method that helps to make a home vegetable garden for those who have very little space?
Answer: Vertical net farming.

40. what is the full form of V.F. P. C. K?
Answer: Vegetable and Fruit Promotion Council Kerala.

41. What is the purpose of the State Horticulture Mission?
Answer: The State Horticulture Mission functions with the aim of promoting the cultivation of different varieties of fruits, vegetables, Spice crops, mushrooms, medicinal plants and beekeeping.
42. What is greenhouse farming?
Answer: In severely cold regions, crops are grown in glass-roofed rooms in
order to protect them. This method is known as greenhouse farming.

43. What is Precision farming?
Answer: This is the method of giving adequate care (water, manure, etc.) for each crop and soil type precisely at different stages. Any region having ample sunlight and well-drained soil is suitable for precision farming.

44. What is fertigation?
Answer: Fertigation is the method of giving water and manure drop by drop. 

45. What are the advantages of producing the necessary vegetables at home?
Answer: Get fresh vegetables, non-toxic vegetables are available., helps to reduce the cost, gets self-satisfaction.

46. What are the reasons for the decline in paddy cultivation in our State?
Answer: Paddy cultivation is unprofitable, diseases, climate change, difficulty in getting workers, filling the fields, fields used for other crops.

47. How can we overcome the space problem in farming?
Answer: Terrace farming, Sack farming, optimum utilisation of available land.

48. Do the diversities in Kerala's|physicgraphy, climate, and soil types influence its agricultural diversity? explain with suitable examples.
Answer:  Our physiography is suitable for the cultivation of a variety of crops. Rain, mist, and cold weather prevailing our eastern Highlands and the geegraphical|factors like temperature. 30 °C all well-drained soil is required for abundant rainfall the cultivation of the coffee, tea Spice crops like cardamom, pepper, ginger, and turmeric.
The midland is sandwiched between the lowland and the Highland. This region in Kerala is characterized by the most diverse creps like cereals,
vegetables, tuber crops, Abundant rainfall, moderately thick layers of Alluvial soil in the river basins, and laterite soil along the hilly tracks are the favourable geographical factors for the crop diversity in the midland region. The region was largely devoted to the cultivation of tubers like tapioca, yam, Elephant Foot Yam and vegetables. The lowland lies close to sea level. The deposits of Alluvial soil in the lowlands are ideal for paddy cultivation and the saline Alluvial soil along the coastal stretches for coconut trees.

49. Each one has to work for self-sufficiency in food. As a student what measures can you adopt for this?
Answer: For the domestic use to produce the vegetable in our own home.
The main issue is that one problem of a suitable place for cultivation. Methods to overcome space problems is that terrace farming and Sack farming. 
we can start farming within the school compounds under the auspices of the nature club. To organise farmer's Union, to encourage the farmers to cultivate barren land. Each student takes a pledge that each and everyone cultivate the vegetables for their own use.








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