Geography of India

As we go through the PowerPoint…

• Label the geographic features of India on your map (#1-10)

• Answer the questions on the back of your map (highlighted in red)

India is located in Southern Asia

1- Indian Subcontinent

• Label the Indian Subcontinent on your map

• Scientists believe that Pangea broke apart into separate continents millions of years ago

• About 10 million years ago, the Indian Subcontinent and Asia collided

2 - Himalayan Mountains• The Himalayan Mountains

were created by the collision of tectonic plates– The plates are still running

into each other and the Mountain Range continues to rise

• It is the tallest mountain range in the world– The top 98 out of 100 tallest

mountains in the world

Himalayan Mountains from Space

3- Mt. Everest• The tallest mountain in

the world– 29,029 Feet tall (Almost

6 miles high)– That’s 20 Empire State

Buildings stacked on top of each other

• It is still growing at a rate of 1 inch every 5 yearshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dcL-PJUFRI

Climbing Mt. Everest…

A base camp on Mt. Everest

DEATH ZONE - Above 26,000 feet, climbers must use oxygen tanks because the air is so thin.

Over 200 people have died trying to climb the mountain.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit in 1953.

Rivers• As the snow and ice in the Himalayas melts,

small streams form• Slowly, streams start to meet and combine,

forming rivers• These rivers move downhill and gather more

force as more streams empty into the river

4- Indus River

• Located in modern-day Pakistan

• Starts in the Himalayas and empties into the Arabian Sea

• This is where the Indus Valley Civilization originated

5- Arabian Sea

6- Ganges River• Located in modern-day India

and Bangladesh

• The most populated river in the world– 400 million people live along

the Ganges

• Empties into the Bay of Bengal

7- Bay of Bengal

8- Brahmaputra River

• Combines with the Ganges River and empties into the Bay of Bengal– The two rivers create a river

delta that is very fertile in Bangladesh

9- Deccan Plateau

• Large plateau in southern India.

• Plateau- A large raised area of mostly flat, level land

10-Indian Ocean

• 3rd largest ocean• Covers 20% of the world’s water surface• Borders Africa, Asia, and Australia

11- Sri Lanka

• An island country off the southeastern coast of India

• One of the world’s largest tea and coffee producers

Reminder!

• Please keep this handout in the social studies section of your binder!

• Vocabulary Flash Cards are due on Wednesday 12/11