Question

Procure outline maps of India and the world. Find out and mark the places on the map where you find animals that provide wool. Use different colours to denote the location for different wool yielding animals.

Answer 1

Hint: Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and other animals which also include the cashmere and mohair goats. We get qiviut from the muskoxen, fur and hide clothing from the bison, rabbits provide us with angora and many other types of wool from the camelids.

Complete Step by step solution
Wool consists of protein along with a small amount of lipids. Wool is chemically quite distinct from the other dominant textiles like cotton which is mainly cellulose.
Wool and wool related textiles is a rural based and export oriented industry. India is the seventh largest producer of wool and it contributes about two per cent of the whole world production of wool.
The states where wool is produced in India are as follows,
1. Rajasthan
2. Karnataka
3. Jammu and Kashmir
4. Telangana
5. Gujarat
6. Himachal Pradesh
7. Uttar Pradesh
8. Haryana
9. Maharashtra
10. Andhra Pradesh
Currently, Rajasthan is the largest wool producing state in the whole country India. There are seventy wool processing units in Rajasthan. Rajasthan produces fifteen million tons of wool per year. Rajasthan has eight different breeds of sheep which produce good quality and high amounts of wool. The sheep present in Rajasthan are known for producing high quality carpet wool.

Note
Wool is a natural type of fibre. It is extracted primarily from sheep and camels as well. Natural fibre are the fibres which are found in nature, that is they occur in nature naturally. Natural fibre can be obtained from plants and animals, like cellulose, cotton etc.