Geography ch 3 - Physiography and Drainage Social Studies - Geography ch 3 - Physiography and Drainage

To the foothills of the Aravalis _________.

The Lakshadweep Islands of the Arabian Sea are _________.

Amazon is a large river in the world. Near its mouth ___________.

The Amazon Basin is mainly ________.

Like Brazil, India too has __________.

The order of subdivisions of North Indian Plains from west to east.
(i) Marusthali – Ganga Plains – Sunderbans
(ii) Pamir; Knot – Punjab Plains – Marusthali
(iii) Sunderbans – Vindhyas – Western Ghats

Three major River Basins of Brazil
(i) Ganga Basin – Brahmaputra Basin – Narmada Basin.
(ii) Paraguay Parana Basin – Amazon Basin – Sao Francisco
(iii) Godavari Basin – Krishna Basin – Kaveri Basin.

Physiographic divisions of Brazil
(i) The Himalayas – The North Indian Plain – The Peninsula
(ii) The Highlands – The Great Escarpment – The Plains
(iii) Islands – Peninsula – Coastal Plains

Physiographic division of India from north to south
(i) The Himalayas – The North Indian Plains – The Peninsula
(ii) The Peninsula – The Great Escarpment – The North Indian Plains
(iii) Coastal Plains – Islands – Himalayas

Parallel ranges of Himalayas from south to north
(i) Siwaliks – Lesser Himalayas – Greater Himalayas
(ii) Trans Himalayas – Kumaun – Shiwaliks
(iii) Kashmir Himalayas – Kumaun Himalayas – Assam Himalayas

On which coast of India are deltas found?

Which is the largest plain land of Brazil?

Because of which physical division is the eastern side of Brazilian highlands are demarcated?

The Guyana highlands cover, which states of Brazil?

Which physical division forms the core of the South American continent?

Agriculture is widely practised in the plains of Punjab region.

Pantanal is called the largest wetlands in the world.

The Amazon Plains are covered by inaccessible tropical rainforest.

The region to the north of the Escarpment is called Drought Quadrilateral.

Many deltas are found along the Eastern coast of India.

The Western Ghats:

The Plains of Brazil:

The Indian Peninsula

The Great Escarpment

The coasts of Brazil

As compared to Amazon, the pollution in river Ganga affects human life greatly.

There are fewer natural ports on the eastern coast of India.

There are dissimilarities between the eastern and the western coast of India.

There are no west flowing rivers in Brazil.

Rivers Meeting the Arabian Sea:

Ganga River System:

Indus River System:

Paraguay – Parana system:

Coastal Rivers of Brazil:

Major mountain system of Asia.

Oldest fold mountains of India.

Eastern border of Indian Peninsula.

Western border of Indian Peninsula.

Highest peak of Brazil

(1) Enumerate the characteristics of the Western Ghats?
(2) Compare the Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats?
(3) Why are the Western Ghats called a water divide ?

(1) What is the range of altitude of the Amazon river basin?
(2) Between which two highlands is the Amazon river basin located?
(3) Observe the region with the altitude of 500 to 1000 metres. Describe the locational extent of this region in yellow with reference to the direction?
(4) What do the isolated regions shown in yellow indicate?
(5) Besides the Amazon river basin, where else do you find regions with an altitude of less than 200m?
(6) Describe the plateau region with height of 200 to 500m through which tributaries of Amazon flow in your own words?

(1) Name the peak shown in the Eastern Ghats?
(2) Which mountains demarcate the deep plains of Brahmaputra?
(3) Give the relative location of the Nilgiri Hills?
(4) In which direction does the height of Sahyadri hills increase?
(5) The Vindhyas act as a water divide between which two river basins?

(1) In which direction does the region with an altitude of more than 6000m lie in India ?
(2) Look for the south-flowing river in the peninsular region. In which river basin does it lie?
(3) In which direction is the slope of the region in the north shown in dark green?
(4) Make a list of plateaus located in between Aravalli ranges and Chhota Nagpur Plateau?