Vocabulary
Rivers
Mountains
Potpourri
More mountains/rivers
100
A strong wind that brings heavy rain in the summer.
What is a monsoon?
100
Describe the waters of the Brahmaputra River.
What is it is cold and clear?
100
Name the higher of the 2: the Eastern or the Western Ghats.
What are the Western Ghats?
100
Name the area that is the "V" formed by the Eastern and Western Ghats.
What is the Deccan Plateau?
100
This river has a high water level from the melting snow and ice from the mountains of northern India.
What is the Indus River?
200
Long mountain chains near the coasts of India that form a V shape; located in southern India.
What are the Eastern and Western Ghats?
200
During monsoon season, describe what happens to the Brahmaputra River.
What is it overflows its bank and flood the valley?
200
Name the more wet of the 2: the Eastern or the Western Ghats.
What are the Western Ghats?
200
Underneath the Himalaya Mountains, the earth is always doing this.
What is moving?
200
Some of the best farmland in this world is in a valley that is fed by this river.
What is the Indus River?
300
Starts high up in the Himalaya Mountains and eventually joins the Ganges River on the plains.
What is the Brahmaputra River?
300
Spell the name of the river that flows across most of northern India.
What is the G-a-n-g-e-s River?
300
Several rivers flow through these mountains which do not flood very often, but they are unsafe for travel.
What are the Eastern Ghats?
300
Name the mountain range in northwestern India.
What are the Hindu Kush mountains?
300
There are more than 45 kinds of lizards and snakes that live in this area of India.
What is the Thar Desert?
400
A huge mass of ice that slowly slides over a land area.
What is a glacier?
400
This part of the plains contains the most fertile soil from flooding of the Ganges River (north; south; east; or west).
What is the northern part of the plains?
400
The world's tallest mountain peak is in this mountain chain.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
400
The Hindu Kush mountains form a natural one of these between India and present-day Afghanistan.
What is a natural barrier?
400
Fill in the blank: India is a s----nt----t of Asia.
What is a subcontinent?
500
A massive desert land are in northern India.
What is the Thar Desert?
500
Name the main problem from the rivers in India.
What is they flood and destroy crops; town; dwellings?
500
There are huge fields known as these that feed northern India's major rivers.
What are glaciers?
500
The Khyber Pass connects this area to the Indian subcontinent.
What is central Asia?
500
This is a raised area of land, that is flat.
What is a plateau?
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