Rivers
Mountains
Plateaus & Deserts
Early Settlement
Miscellaneous
100
This river has its origins in the Himalayas and carries sediment to the northern plains in India
What is the Ganges River?
100
The glaciers in this range feed northern India's major rivers
What are the Himalaya Mountains
100
This area is situated between two mountain ranges in southern India
What is the Deccan Plateau?
100
These appeared on the Indian subcontinent in about 2500 BCE
What are walled towns?
100
This body of water lies to the west of India
What is the Arabian Sea?
200
This river flows into the Arabian sea and has a variety of fish that are caught to sell or eat
What is the Indus River?
200
This mountain range forms a barrier between India and Afghanistan.
What is the Hindu Kush Mountains?
200
This area is located in northern India that has evidence of dried-up rivers
What is the Thar Desert?
200
This area saw settlements spring up as early as 6500 BCE
What is the Indus-Sarasvati region?
200
Traders used this famous pass to enter India from central Asia
What is the Khyber Pass?
300
These two rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal
What are the Ganges and the Brahmaputra Rivers?
300
These mountains have steep slopes and thick hardwood forests
What are the Western Ghats?
300
Parts of this area are good from growing cotton
What is the Deccan Plateau?
300
By 5000 BCE, settlers had appeared near this river
What is the Ganges River?
300
This is a large wind that brings heavy rain to the Indian subcontinent
What is the monsoon?
400
This rivers was thought to have dried up around 1900 BCE
What is the Sarasvati River?
400
The name of these mountains means "home of the snows"
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
400
This area is inhabited by a large number of animals the at include more than 45 kinds of lizards & snakes
What is the Thar Desert?
400
The first people in India settled near rivers for these 3 reasons
What are fertile soil for farming, plenty of water, and transportation for travel and trade?
400
Because this area receives little rain, dust storms are common in this area
What is the Thar Desert?
500
This river flows clear and cold through the mountains, but becomes slower and deeper in its river valley
What is the Brahmaputra River?
500
These mountains have fast-moving rivers that are not safe for travel
What are the Eastern Ghats?
500
This area has large granite rocks formed by volcanoes
What is the Deccan Plateau?
500
This happened after the Sarasvati River dried up
What is the area became a desert?
500
India is known as a subcontinent because of these 2 reasons
What is surrounded by water on 3 sides and attached to the continent of Asia?
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