Retake Exam Geography 6 Grade

Q1. Fill in the blanks with the correct word by using the word bank.

Fertile silt yaks isolated sugarcane Brahmaputra Indus

(Answers)

1. Farmers grow fruit trees, tea, potatoes, wheat, maize, rice, and …Sugarcane… on the

terraces cut into the slopes of the Himalayas.

2. …Yaks… are used to carry people and heavy loads along rough tracks, and farmers take

the animals up to the high pastures to feed in summer.

3. Many settlements in the Himalayas are ……Isolated… as the high mountains make it

very difficult to build roads and railways.

4. Nineteen large rivers drain the Himalayas, including the ……Indus… and ……

Brahmaputra…, and they provide water for people and …Fertile silt… for crops in

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

6 marks
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Q2. What covers the upper parts of the Himalayas?

(Answer)

- The upper part of Himalayas is always covered with ice and snow. 1 mark

Q3. Tick the right statements, cross and correct the false statements.

(Answer)

1. False: The Earth’s crust is made up of large pieces, called Plates

2. False: The Atacama Desert in Chile is known for being one of the Driest places on
Earth.
3. False: Famines are caused by natural disasters and people.
4. True: Drought is a period of abnormally dry weather.
5. True: The Himalayas are relatively young fold mountains.
6. True: Floods can destroy crops by covering them with water or burying them in mud.
7. False: The slow-moving rivers of ice are called Glaciers.

7 marks
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Q4. List the natural causes of Famine:

(Answer)

-Long period of dry weather, or drought

3 marks
-Floods

-earthquakes and volcanoes

-Plagues of insect pests or plant diseases.

Q5. Poorer countries find it very difficult to recover from famine. Many rely on help from

international aid organization. Write the names of three of those organizations.

(Answer)

- Red Cross

- Red Crescent

- Oxfam

- Save the Children Fund

- ActionAid

- UNICEF
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Q6. Give one point where topographic maps and relief maps are similar and one point

where they are different.

(Answer)

Similarities: On both topographic and relief maps the height of the land is shown by using
2 marks
colors.

Differences: Topographic maps show the natural features of the land. Such as hills, mountains,

lakes and rivers. While Relief maps show only how high the different parts of a region, country

or continent are.

Q7. What happens to someone when they eat too much and not exercise?

(Answer)

- People who eat too much and do not exercise may become Obese. 1 marks
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Q8. Match the following words to its correct definition.

(Answer)

Avalanches: A sudden collapse of snow down the

Contour lines
side of a mountain.
5 marks

Measles: A disease that mostly malnourished

Rain shadow
children are exposed to.

Avalanches Contour lines: A line on a map joining points that

are the same height above sea level.

Measles Malnourished: Someone who does not have enough

food or the right kinds of food to eat.

Rain shadow: The sheltered side of a mountain

Malnourished where there is less rainfall than on the other,
windward, side.

Q9. Why do climbers need bottles of oxygen when climbing in the Himalayas?

(Answer)

- The higher you go above the earth, the less air there is, and high in the Himalayas there

is so little air that most climbers can only breathe with the help of bottles of oxygen

1 mark

Q10. What type of mountain is shown in the following picture?

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………Fold

Mountain……………

1 mark
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Q11. Write down one advantage and one disadvantage of tourism.

(Answer)

Advantage:

- Tourism lead to the building of hotels, restaurants, café, shops and night clubs, which

provide jobs for local people.

- Improvement of public transportations.

- Traditional local crafts are encouraged because of the tourists.

Disadvantage:

- Influx of wealthy tourists may encourage shops and restaurants to put up their prices, so

that local people can no longer afford to use them.

- Tourists bring more noise, litter and extra cars.

- Traffic jams.

- Campfires getting out of control.

- Sewage from the caravans and campsites may pollute local rivers.

- Weathering and erosion.

- Digging quarries.

2 marks
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Q12. What is snow line?

(Answer)

- The line a mountain above which it is so cold that snow covers the ground,

even in summer

1 marks

Q13. Write down the two reasons where desertification effects famine.

(Answer)

1- Deforestation

2- Overgrazing

Q14. When the monsoon rains come, how many crops of rice are grown in Bangladesh in a

year?

(Answer)

When the monsoon rains come, up to three crops of rice are grown.
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1 mark

Q15. Many people believe that famine happens because we do not have enough food in the

world to feed everyone. But that’s not the truth, the real reason for famine is:

(Answer)

The truth is that there is more than enough food for everyone. The problem is that the food does

not always get to the people who need it and a lot of food is wasted.

1 mark

Q16. Write down three factors that allows weathering to occur.

(Answer)

1- Ice 3 marks
2- Water
3- Change in temperature