Tag Archives: NCERT Class 7 Social Science Chapter

Question: What do you understand by the term human settlement? How did settlements emerge? Answer: Human settlements refer to the locations where people build their homes. Around these settlements human communities develop. A community is a group of people living in a particular area and bound by a common culture …

Question: Explain how the atmosphere sustain life on Earth. Answer: The atmosphere is vital for life on the Earth. It helps sustain life in various ways: The atmosphere acts as a blanket by trapping terrestrial radiation and keeping the warm. It ensures that there is the correct amount of heat …

Question: Distinguish between absolute humidity and relative humidity. In what units are they expressed? Answer: Absolute Humidity: This is the amount of water vapour present in a unit volume of air, and is expressed in kilograms per cubic meter. Relative Humidity: This is a measure of how dry or moist …

Question: What is the major advantage that a weaver enjoys when he sells directly to the customers? Answer: The advantages that weaver enjoyed is: The weaver is the master, and he decides the product. All the profit goes to him. He uses his creativity to produce the saree. There is no …

Question: What is a market? Answer: A market is a physical place where buyers and sellers meets and exchange goods, services and information. Market serves as a link between the producers and the consumers, thereby ensuring the distribution of goods and services in a society. Two types of activities takes …

Question: What is meant by advertising? Answer:  Advertising is the process of publicising a product or service by drawing people’s  attention to the product. Advertisements focus on all the good points of the product to make it appear as attractive as possible so that people are tempted to buy it. …

Question: Name two famous works of Persian literature and their authors from Medieval India. Answer: The historian Barani, wrote the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi and Abdul Fazl wrote the biography of Akbar Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari. Question: What was the language and dialect of the book Padmavat? What was its theme? Answer: Malik …

Question: What was known as a qasba in medieval India? Answer: During the Sultanate Period (13th to 16th Centuries CE), many of the villages, especially the district headquarters, slowly grew into towns, known as qasba. Question: Name a city that was both an administrative and a trade center during the Mughal …

Question: Who was Nadir Shah? What was the result of his attack on Delhi? or Describe the impact of Nadir Shah’s invasion upon Delhi. Answer: Nadir Shah, the ruler of Iran, sacked and plundered the city of Delhi in 1739 CE and took away immense amounts of wealth. As a …

Question: Name any four forms of media. Answer: Newspapers, television, magazines and Internet. Question: Give examples for the means of communication in the ancient world. Answer: The means of communication in the ancient world were: People used drums to communicate over long distances, or runners carried the information. Later, there …