Q1.
Complete the information in the table given below. One example has been done for you. Share your answers with your classmates and teacher. Columns: Amazing Natural Phenomena | Location | One Unique Feature. 1. The Valley of Flowers — Chamoli district, Uttarakhand — Around 600 species of exotic flowers. 2. The Living Root Bridges — ? — ? 3. ? — Buldhana district, Maharashtra — ? 4. Magnetic Hills — ? — ? 5. Glowing Waters — ? — ? 6. ? — West Bengal — ? 7. ? — Balasore district, Odisha — ?
Answer
| No. | Amazing Natural Phenomena | Location | One Unique Feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Valley of Flowers | Chamoli district, Uttarakhand | Around 600 species of exotic flowers (example) |
| 2 | The Living Root Bridges | Meghalaya | Bridges made of intertwined living roots, built without cement or stone; the longest is a whopping 175 feet |
| 3 | The Lonar Crater Lake | Buldhana district, Maharashtra | The only crater in India formed in basaltic rock by a meteorite impact; it holds a saline lake at its core |
| 4 | Magnetic Hills | Leh district, Ladakh — about 30 km from Leh | An optical illusion in which parked vehicles appear to roll uphill at almost 20 km/h |
| 5 | Glowing Waters | Kumbalangi village, 15 km from Kochi, Kerala | Bioluminescence — the backwaters glow at night because of a high concentration of micro-planktons |
| 6 | The Sundarbans | West Bengal | A mangrove forest spread over 1,400 km in the delta of the Ganga, the Brahmaputra and the Meghna, named after the sundari tree and home to the Bengal tiger |
| 7 | The Invisible Chandipur Beach | Balasore district, Odisha | The sea retreats 2–5 km during ebb tide and returns at high tide, so it seems to disappear and reappear daily |
Choosing ‘one unique feature' is the real skill here. The right feature is the one that no other place on the list could claim. ‘Beautiful' is true of all seven and therefore useless; ‘the only crater in India formed in basaltic rock by a meteorite' belongs to Lonar alone. When you fill such a table, pick the most specific fact you can find, with its number attached.
Did you notice the spread? The seven wonders reach from Ladakh in the far north to Kerala in the far south, and from Meghalaya in the east to Maharashtra in the west — mountain, forest, desert, delta and coast. That range is part of the writer's argument.