Himalayas mountain
The youngest mountain range in India, forming its northern boundary.
What is the Himalayas?
The fertile plain formed by the deposition of silt by rivers.
What is the Northern Plains?
The narrow strip of land between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats.
What is the Western Coastal Plain?
The two major island groups of India.
What are the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep?
The highest peak in India, located in the Himalayas.
What is Kanchenjunga?
The three major river systems that form the Northern Plains.
What are the Indus, Ganga, and Brahmaputra?
The eastern coastal plain, wider and known for deltas.
What is the Eastern Coastal Plain?
The type of islands formed by coral reefs in the Arabian Sea.
What are the Lakshadweep Islands?
The three parallel ranges of the Himalayas, from north to south.
What are Himadri, Himachal, and Shiwalik?
The type of soil found in the Northern Plains, ideal for agriculture.
What is alluvial soil?
The southern part of the Eastern Coastal Plain, along Tamil Nadu.
What is the Coromandel Coast?
The capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
What is Port Blair?
The term for the valleys between the Himachal and Shiwalik ranges, like Dehradun.
What are Duns?
The region of the Northern Plains known for its dry, desert-like conditions in Rajasthan.
What is the Thar Desert?
The port city on the Western Coastal Plain, known as India’s financial capital.
What is Mumbai?
The location of Nicobar Island.
What is south?
The term inner Himalayas?
Greater/Himadri
The part of the Ganga Plain where rivers like the Ghaghara and Kosi flow, known for flooding.
What is the Middle Ganga Plain?
The type of delta formed by the Godavari and Krishna rivers on the Eastern Coastal Plain.
What is a fertile delta?
The term for the submerged mountain range that forms the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
What is a submarine ridge?