Indian Geography Review

____________ is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• Subcontinent
• Peninsula
• Mount Everest
• Summer Monsoon

This chain of mountains separates India from the rest of Asia and created a convergent plate boundary.

• Deccan Plateau
• Mount Everest
• Himalayas 
• Eastern and Western Ghats

An elevated area in south-central India used for agriculture and animal grazing.

• Subontinenet
• Indus River
• Deccan Plateau
• Mount Everest 

The tallest single mountain peak in the world.

• Mount Everest 
• Himalyas

One of two rivers that gets its source high up in the Himalayas from glaciers and snow. 

• Indus River
• Narmada River
• Godavari River

____________ bring a great deal of rainfall and destruction to India.

• Summer Monsoons
• Winter Monsoons 

A smaller part of a continent that  has different climate and geography. 

• region
• small continent 
• subcontinent 

The Himalaya Mountains translates to mean _________ due to the snowfall the range receives.

• "Home of Snow"
• "House of Rain"
• "Avalanche Abode"
• "Snowman Haven"

The ___________ borders India on its east coast.

• Arabian Sea
• Indian Ocean
• Bay of Bengal
• Pacific Ocean

One reason India is referred to as a subcontinent is because it sits on its own ________________.

• climate
• volcano
• waterfall
• plate