Class 6 Geography
How to read a map and use its scale, what mountains, plateaus and plains actually are, where rain comes from and where a river goes — and then the same questions asked about our own country: its great divisions, its rivers, its states and the neighbours around it.
Print the whole term as one worksheet pack →Maps and Directions
- Directions and the compassLesson
Use the four main directions and the four that lie between them to say where one place is from another, and read the direction arrow on a map.
- Reading a mapLesson
Find the four things nearly every map carries — its title, its direction arrow, its key and its scale — and use the key to say what a symbol or a colour on the map stands for.
- Map scale and distanceLesson
Use a map's scale to turn a length measured on the map into the real distance on the ground, and turn a real distance back into a length on the map.
The Land and Its Water
- Mountains, plateaus and plainsLesson
Tell a mountain, a plateau and a plain apart by the shape and height of the land, and say why people live and farm where they do.
- The water cycleLesson
Name the four stages of the water cycle, put them in order, and explain where rain comes from and why the earth never runs out of water.
- A river from source to seaLesson
Follow a river from its source to its mouth and name the parts of the journey — tributary, confluence, valley, delta and basin — and say what the river does to the land along the way.
Our Country, India
- The physical divisions of IndiaLesson
Name the great physical divisions of India — the Himalayas, the Northern Plains, the desert, the Peninsular Plateau, the coastal plains and the islands — and say where each one lies and what its land is like.
- The rivers of IndiaLesson
Tell India's Himalayan rivers from its peninsular rivers, follow the Ganga from its glacier to the sea, and say which sea each of the great rivers reaches.
- India's states, seas and neighboursLesson
Say which countries and seas lie around India and in which direction, and name the state that a few of India's great cities are the capital of.