1. The Himalayan Mountains are a series of mountains ranges stretching from Jammu and Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh. They protect our country in many ways.
2. They contain some of the highest mountain peaks in the world.
3. The Eastern and Western Ghats, Aravalli Hills and Nilgiri Hills are the hills in Southern and Central India.
4. Rivers like the Ganga, Yamuna and Brahmaputra originate in the Himalayas and get their water from glaciers when the snow melts in summer.
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5. The Northern plains stretch from Punjab in the north-west to Assam in the east.
6. The Northern Plains are vast flat areas and the soil in these plains is mostly fertile.
7. The Brahmaputra Basin, the Ganga Basin and the Satluj Basin drain the Northern Plains.
8. Deserts are stretches of sandy or rocky land where rain and vegetation is scarce
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9. Rajasthan, a state that lies south-west of the Northern Plains, is the main desert area of our country.
10. The climate in the deserts is extreme and most places receive little or no rainfall.
11. All the states and regions in India have people with diverse lifestyles, occupations and ways of dressing.
12. The Southern Plateau region of India is a raised flat land that lies to the south of the Northern Plains and is triangular in shape.
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13. It has the Eastern and Western Ghats on its two lower sides, the Aravalli Hills its north-west.
14. The Southern Plateaus are actually a group of three plateaus—the Malwa Plateau, Chota Nagpur Plateau and the Deccan Plateau.
15. The main rivers flowing through the plateaus are Narmada, Mahanadi, Krishna and Tapi.
16. The Western Coastal Plains are the area between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea.
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17. They are divided into three parts; the Saurashtra Coast, the Konkan Coast and the Malabar Coast.
18. The Eastern Coastal Plains stretch from Kanniyakumari in the south to West Bengal in the east.
19. The southern half of the eastern coast is called the Coromandel Coast. It includes coastal Tamil Nadu.
20. The Mahanadi and Kaveri are two major rivers of the Eastern Coastal Plains that flow into the Bay of Bengal.