Ginger Webb

SLM 521

Web Dropin 3

Objective: To discover information about the geography of India and how the topography and climate affects the economy of the people in this country by completing a map activity and a short response.

There are many parts that make up the landscape of India. The physical features of the land combined with the weather extremes must affect the people and how they live. In India temperatures can reach as high as 120 degrees and the monsoon season can dump over 125 inches of rain on these people in three months of the year. You will complete a map of India which shows various geographic landmarks as well as the monsoon winds.

Use these web sites to dig for information:

Geographic Information –Use this site to view the topography of India.

India Geography from KidPort – Use this site to find out how weather affects the land in India.

Monsoons – Use this site to gain knowledge of what a monsoon is and what it affects.

Using colored pencils and the map provided in class, label the following items first in pencil and then using a fine tip black marker:

Arabian Sea	Bay of Bengal
Indian Ocean	Pakistan
China	Myannmar
Afghanistan	Nepal
Himalayan Mountants	Vindhya Mountains
Indo-Gangetic Plain	Eastern & Western Ghats
Indus River	Ganges River
Thar Desert	Deccan Plateau
Summer Monsoon	Winter Monsoon

Shade lightly with the assigned colors:

Mountains = Green

Water = Blue

Plains = Yellow

Desert = Red

Other Countries = Purple

Be sure that the coloring all goes in the same direction and is neat!

Now that you’ve learned a bit about how India looks and what the weather is like answer a couple of questions:

1. What is a monsoon?	2. Does the monsoon affect all of India, or is part of it affected more/less?
3. Are there glaciers in India? Describe	4. How does India use water to conquer the landscape?