Vocab
Vocab
Label
Reading Comp.
Misc.
100

The mountain range that forms the northern boundary of India

Himalayas

100

 An area of land surrounded by water on three sides

peninsula

100

Name the body of water to the west of number 17.

What is the Arabian Sea

100

Name the two seasonal types of monsoons.

Summer and Winter monsoons

100

What continent is India a part of?

What is Asia

200

A large ocean located south of India

Indian Ocean

200

A northwestern section of the Indian Ocean between India and the Arabian Peninsula

Arabian Sea

200

Name the country on the northwest border.

What is Pakistan 

200

What is a smaller piece of land referred to as

What is a subcontinent 

200

The Indian Ocean is the __________________ biggest ocean in the world.

second
300

an early civilization with a developed culture, located in the Indus River valley on the Indian subcontinent

Indus valley civilization

300

an area of high, flat land, but not mountains

Plateau

300

Point to the Himalayan mountains

Pointed to the Nepal/India border

300
Name the two Ghats located near the southern border of India.

Eastern and Western Ghats

300

Name India's most famous civil rights leader.

 Who is Mahatma Gandhi

400

A large landmass that is smaller than a continent

Subcontinent

400

 river in Northern India and is sacred to Hindus

Ganges river

400

Name the body of water to the east of number 17.

What is the Bay on Bengal

400

Name the geographical feature (landmass) at letter E. 

What is the Deccan Plateau.. (If the specific on is named give double points)

400

What causes a dry (winter) monsoon?

The Himalayan mountains block a lot of the wind and moisture from the ocean.
500

A northeastern section the of Indian Ocean near Bangladesh and Myanmar

Bay of Bengal

500

seasonal wind and rain, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia

Monsoon

500

Point to the Ganges river on the map. 

Pointed at the river coming from the north east.

500

Name the geographic feature located at letter H.

What is the Indus River. 

500

India is BOTH a ________________ and a ___________________. 

Subcontinent ; peninsula