6th Polity Part 1 Online Test – New Book – Civics

Explanation: A continent is a large area. It includes all varieties of land. Example of hill stations. Desert, plateaus, mountains, rivers, doab regions, Coastal lands etc.

People living in the plains thrive on agriculture, while people in the coastal areas take to fishing for their livelihood. In mountainous regions, rearing of animals is undertaken.

In hilly regions weather conditions is only suitable for plantation and growing of Coffee and tea.

The plant life is mentioned as flora. For remembrance: Flora-Flower. The animal life is meaning by fauna.

A community is a place where people live together with a common interest or heritage. Our community is made up of peasants, laborers, artisans, parents, teachers, students and many others.

Mawsynram located in Meghalaya, is the land of highest rainfall. Jaisalmer located in Rajasthan, is the land of lowest rainfall.

Joint family is having above 4 members of who are all in a single residence and Nuclear family is maximum of 4 members living like a separated flat system.

Secular state means that, all religions are treated equally. No one forced to follow a particular religion. Everyone is independent to follow their own interest. The main logical reason is India is a diversity nation of having many religions.

According to census of India 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages

Tamil language is the oldest Dravidian language. It has archaeological evidence, inscriptions, literature evidence.

 In our Indian constitution official languages mentioned as 22. But Our nation has many other languages are there with diversified position.

Our Indian Government has surveying whether the languages are spoken by the majority of people and declaring its suggestion for the best possible administration. In that, they are classifying the languages. So our Tamil language is declared as the classical language in 2004.

There are 5 other languages and Tamil have been declared as classical languages. These languages are spoken by majority of Indian people.

Language Percentage of total population Hindi 41.03 % Bengali 8.10 % Telugu 7.19 % Marathi 6.99 % Tamil 5.91 %

 Bhangra dance is famous in Punjab state.

V.A. Smith called India as an ‘Ethnological museum’, as a great variety of racial types exist

Andhra Pradesh is the native place of Kuchipudi dance.

A continent is a very large area of land with various physical features such as mountains, plateaus, plains, rivers and seas and various types of weather patterns. India has all of them. India is known as a sub-continent.

Mawsynram located in Meghalaya, is the land of highest rainfall. Jaisalmer located in Rajasthan, is the land of lowest rainfall.

According to census of India 2001, India has 122 major languages and 1599 other languages. Four major Indian language families are Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic and Sino Tibetian.

India is known for ‘unity in diversity’. This phrase was coined by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, in his book Discovery of India.

St. Thomas Cathedral Basilica is located at Chennai.

Historically, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, the Danish and the French came to India for trade and their occupation of India or some parts of it has left behind a certain impact upon the culture and language of the people.