Question 1 Vocabulary
This is the term for a strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer.
What is a "monsoon"?
This is the name of the desert in ancient India.
This area receives very little rain so many people don't live there.
What is the "Thar Dessert"?
This is the name of the river that is sometimes compared to Nile of Egypt because, like the Nile, this river is an important source of water for farmland.
What is the "Indus River"?
This mountain range contains the tallest peak in the world, Mt. Everest.
What is "the Himalaya Mountains"?
This is the term for going from one place to another.
What is "migrate"?
This is the name of the 30 mile pass that allows passage between two mountain passes and northern India?
What is the "Khyber Pass"?
This landform was always cold, covered in snow and ice, and was treacherous to travel, so people didn't settle there.
What is the "Himalaya Mountains"?
This river starts in the Himalaya Mountains and joins the Ganges River on the plains.
What is the "Brahmaputra River"?
This mountain range separates India from the rest of Asia. (Could be a repeat mountain.)
What is "the Himalaya Mountains"?
This is the term for moving back or further away. To gradually decrease.
What is "recede"?
This is the name of the sea that is to the west of India.
What is the "Arabian Sea"?
These geographic features allowed people a food source (seafood), water source, and allowed them to see attacks coming.
What is the "Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, and Arabian Ocean"?
This river flows across most of northern India.
What is the "Ganges River"?
This physical feature is like a small mountain is flat at the top and is on the Western coast of India.
What are "the Western Ghats"?
This is the term for a large landmass that is smaller than a continent.
What is a "subcontinent"?
This is the name of the major ocean near India.
What is the "Indian Ocean"?
This landform received rain, but wasn't good farmland and was treacherous travel.
What are the "Western or Eastern Ghats"?
NOT A RIVER
This is the name of the plateau in southern India that is surround by ghats.
What is the "Deccan Plateau"?
This physical feature is like a small mountain is flat at the top and is on the Eastern coast of India.
What are "the Eastern Ghats"?
This is the term for a flat area of land that is elevated or raised up from the land around it.
What is a "plateau"?
This is the name of the bay on the eastern side of India.
What is the "Bay of Bengal"?
These landforms carried minerals from mountains and were deposited into fields. The only thing you had to worry about was if they flooded. This was probably the best place to settle in ancient India.
What is the "Indus River, Bhramaputra River, or Ganges River"?
What is the name of the godess in Indian mythology who came down from the heavens and made the rivers by clearing the ashes of loved ancestors?
Who is "Ganga"?
This mountain range is in the Northwest area of India and separates India from Pakistan.
What is "the Hindu Kush Mountains"?