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Class 6 Geography

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Skills in this pack

Directions and the compass
Reading a map
Map scale and distance
Mountains, plateaus and plains
The water cycle
A river from source to sea
The physical divisions of India
The rivers of India
India's states, seas and neighbours

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Directions and the compass

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.

1.You are outside at sunrise, facing the sun. Which direction is on your left hand?
- a) North
- b) West
- c) South
- d) Behind you
2.Which direction lies halfway between south and east?
3.Which direction is opposite north?
4.On most maps, which direction is at the top of the page?
5.Tap the north-west point of this compass rose.
Write the number of the part.
6.You are walking east. You turn to your right. Which direction are you walking now?
- a) East
- b) West
- c) North
- d) South
7.Put the four main directions in the order you meet them going clockwise, starting at north.
- East
- South
- West
- North
8.A town is north-east of your village. In which direction is your village from the town?

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Reading a map

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.

1.Which of a map's four helpers do you need if you want to know how far apart two places really are?
2.A map's key gives blue for water. A long blue line winds across the map from the hills down to the coast. What is it most likely to be?
- a) The border of a region
- b) A road
- c) A river
- d) A railway line
3.Match each of a map's four helpers to what it tells you.
- The title
- The key
- The direction arrow
- The scale
- How much real ground a length on the paper stands for
- What each mark and colour stands for
- Which place the map is showing
- Which way north lies on the page
4.Why does a map use small marks instead of drawing everything as it really looks?
- a) Drawing things properly is against the rules of map making
- b) Because a map is always drawn by a machine
- c) Because most people cannot recognise a drawing of a building
- d) There is nothing like enough room on the paper to draw every real thing
5.Tap the part of this map that tells you what each symbol on it stands for.
Write the number of the part.
6.A map has no room to draw a real school building, so it puts a small mark on the paper to stand for one instead. What is that mark called?
7.A physical map shows the natural land — where the mountains, plains and rivers are. A political map shows what people have drawn on it — borders, regions and cities. Which map would show each of these?
Groups: A physical map · A political map
- Where the mountains rise
- Where the plains lie
- The administrative centre of each region
- The border between two regions
- The course of a river
- The name of every region
8.What is a map?
- a) A list of the places in a country
- b) A photograph taken from the side of a hill
- c) A drawing of a place as it would look from above
- d) A model of the whole earth, round like the earth itself

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Map scale and distance

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.

1.Every one of these lengths was measured on the same map, where 2 cm stands for 8 km. Match each one to the real distance it stands for, in kilometres.
- 2 cm
- 3 cm
- 5 cm
- 10 cm
- 8
- 20
- 12
- 40
2.On a map, 2 cm stands for 6 km. A road is 18 km long on the ground. How long is that road on the map, in centimetres?
3.You measure 7 cm between two places on a map, and the map's scale says 2 cm stands for 6 km. Which sum gives the real distance between them?
- a) 7 × 2
- b) 7 + 6
- c) 7 ÷ 3
- d) 7 × 3
4.Why can no map of a town be drawn at the same size as the town itself?
- a) A map is only allowed to show natural land
- b) Nobody has ever measured a whole town
- c) The scale would then be at the bottom of the page
- d) The paper would have to be as big as the town
5.On a map, 2 cm stands for 10 km. Two villages are 6 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they on the ground, in kilometres?
6.On a map, 3 cm stands for 12 km. Two towns are 5 cm apart on the map. Tap how far apart they are on the ground, in kilometres.
Mark the line with an X.
7.On a map, 5 cm stands for 20 km. Two wells are 3 cm apart on the map. How far apart are they on the ground, in kilometres?
8.Two maps of the same town are printed on the same size of paper. On the first, 2 cm stands for 4 km. On the second, 2 cm stands for 20 km. Which one can show more detail?
- a) Neither — the paper is the same size, so they show the same amount
- b) It cannot be worked out without measuring both maps
- c) The second, because the same length of paper covers more ground
- d) The first, because the same length of paper covers less ground

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Mountains, plateaus and plains

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.

1.A river reaches the edge of a plateau and drops over it as a waterfall. Why does the waterfall form just there?
- a) Because the land falls away steeply at the edge, and the water goes with it
- b) Because rivers can only flow on flat ground
- c) Because the water is heavier at the edge than in the middle
- d) Because a plateau is made of water underneath
2.Tap the plateau in this drawing of the land.
Write the number of the part.
3.Sort each kind of land by whether it is high land or low land.
Groups: High land · Low land
- A plain
- A peak
- A mountain
- A valley floor
- Flat farmland beside a river
- A plateau
4.Why do far more people live on plains than high in the mountains?
- a) There is no water anywhere in the mountains
- b) Flat, level land with deep soil makes farming, roads and building easy
- c) Plains are the only land where the sun reaches the ground
- d) Nobody is allowed to build a house on a slope
5.Which of these is the best description of a plain?
- a) Raised land with a flat top and steep sides
- b) The low land lying between two mountains
- c) Land that rises much higher than everything around it
- d) A wide stretch of flat, low, level land
6.Put these three kinds of land in order, starting with the lowest and ending with the highest.
- A plain
- A plateau
- A mountain
7.Sort each description under the kind of land it fits.
Groups: A mountain · A plateau · A plain
- Rises much higher than the land around it, with steep sides and a narrow top
- Raised land with a flat top and steep sides
- A wide stretch of flat, low, level land
- Often called table land
- So cold at the top that snow may lie there all year
- Deep soil, easy to plough, and easy to build a road across
8.Raised land with a flat top and steep sides, standing above the country around it, is called a ______.

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The water cycle

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.

1.Sort each of these under the stage of the water cycle it belongs to.
Groups: Evaporation · Condensation · Precipitation · Collection
- Droplets join together, grow heavy and fall as rain
- Tiny droplets gather until a cloud can be seen
- Rising vapour cools high up and turns back into tiny droplets
- Snow falls on a mountain top
- Water gathers in lakes and runs down rivers to the sea
- Water soaks down into the ground and stays there
- Wet clothes on a line dry in the sun
- The sun warms the sea, and water turns into vapour
2.Tap the place in this picture where condensation is happening.
Write the number of the part.
3.Sort each one by whether it puts water into the air or takes water out of it.
Groups: Puts water into the air · Takes water out of the air
- Rain falling on a field
- Snow falling on a mountain
- Water leaving the leaves of a tree
- A puddle drying up after the rain has stopped
- Vapour cooling into the droplets of a cloud
- A lake warming in the sun
4.Match each stage of the water cycle to what happens in it.
- Evaporation
- Condensation
- Precipitation
- Collection
- Liquid water turns into vapour and rises
- Vapour cools and turns back into tiny droplets
- Water gathers in seas and lakes, or soaks into the ground
- Water falls from a cloud as rain, snow or hail
5.The water cycle has no true beginning — it goes round and round. Starting with evaporation, put its four stages in the order they follow one another.
- Collection
- Evaporation
- Precipitation
- Condensation
6.Does the earth's water get used up as the cycle turns?
- a) No — the same water goes round the cycle over and over
- b) Yes, all of it is used up and new water is made in the clouds
- c) Yes, a little is lost every time it rains
- d) No, because the sun adds fresh water to the sea each day
7.The sea is salty, but rain is not. Why?
- a) The salt falls out of the cloud before the rain does
- b) The cold high up turns the salt back into water
- c) Only the water rises as vapour, and the salt is left behind in the sea
- d) Rain comes from rivers, and rivers were never salty
8.Water in a lake is warmed by the sun, turns into vapour and rises into the air. What is that stage called?

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A river from source to sea

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.

1.The place where two rivers meet and join is called a ______.
2.Tap the confluence — the place where the tributary joins the main river.
Write the number of the part.
3.The place where a river ends, and its water empties into the sea, is called its ______.
4.A smaller river or stream that flows into a bigger one is called a ______.
5.A river behaves differently near its source and near its mouth. Sort each description into the right stretch.
Groups: Near the source · Near the mouth
- Waterfalls and rapids are common
- The river is wide and moves slowly
- The river may split into several channels before it reaches the sea
- The water rushes down a steep slope
- The river cuts a narrow valley out of the rock
- The river drops the mud and sand it has been carrying
6.Which way does a river always flow?
- a) Downhill, from higher land towards lower land
- b) Towards the nearest town
- c) Uphill in the wet season and downhill in the dry season
- d) Northwards, whatever the shape of the land
7.Near its source a river wears away the rock it runs over and carries the pieces along with it. What is that wearing away called?
- a) Deposition
- b) Erosion
- c) Condensation
- d) Evaporation
8.Match each word to what it means.
- Source
- Mouth
- Tributary
- Basin
- Where a river empties into the sea
- Where a river begins
- All the land whose water drains into one river
- A smaller stream that joins a bigger river

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The physical divisions of India

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.

1.Sort each description under the division of India it belongs to.
Groups: The Himalayas · The Northern Plains · The Peninsular Plateau
- Bordered by the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats
- Snow lies on the peaks all through the year
- The most crowded farmland in the country
- The highest mountains in the world
- Old, hard rock, rich in minerals
- Flat, level land built out of silt dropped by rivers
2.What is the land of the Great Indian Desert like?
- a) High and cold, with snow on it most of the year
- b) Old hard rock, cut into by deep river valleys
- c) Sandy, dry, and with very little rain
- d) Flat and green, and crossed by great rivers
3.Why is so much of India's farming done in the Northern Plains?
- a) It is the only part of the country where it ever rains
- b) The soil there is old, hard rock, which crops grow best in
- c) The plains are higher than anywhere else, so crops get more sun
- d) The land is flat, the soil is deep, and great rivers cross it
4.India has a strip of coastal plain along each of its two coasts. Sort each description into the right one.
Groups: The Western Coastal Plains · The Eastern Coastal Plains
- Lie along the Bay of Bengal
- Lie along the Arabian Sea
- The Coromandel coast is part of them
- Narrow, with the Western Ghats rising close behind them
- Broader, and carrying the deltas of great rivers
- The Konkan and Malabar coasts are part of them
5.Which great range of mountains stretches across the whole of the north of India?
6.Match each division of India to where it lies.
- The Himalayas
- The Northern Plains
- The Great Indian Desert
- The Peninsular Plateau
- The coastal plains
- South of the plains, filling most of the south
- In the west, in Rajasthan
- In two narrow strips, one along each coast
- Right across the north
- South of the mountains and north of the plateau
7.The Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats are the two raised edges of which division of India?
- a) The Himalayas
- b) The Northern Plains
- c) The Peninsular Plateau
- d) The Great Indian Desert
8.Which group of islands lies in the Bay of Bengal?
- a) The Lakshadweep Islands
- b) The Andaman and Nicobar Islands
- c) The Western Ghats
- d) The Shiwaliks

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The rivers of India

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.

1.The Ganga begins where a glacier melts, high in the Himalayas. What is that glacier called?
2.Which great river joins the Ganga at Prayagraj?
3.This rough map of India shows four of its great rivers, each with an arrow showing which way it flows. Tap the one that flows westwards into the Arabian Sea.
Write the number of the part.
4.Sort each river by the sea its water finally reaches.
Groups: The Bay of Bengal · The Arabian Sea
- The Tapi
- The Indus
- The Godavari
- The Ganga
- The Narmada
- The Kaveri
5.The Narmada and the Tapi do not build deltas where they meet the sea. What do they end in instead?
- a) A lake that never reaches the sea at all
- b) An estuary — a wide, funnel-shaped mouth
- c) A waterfall straight into the sea
- d) A confluence with the Godavari
6.Why do the Himalayan rivers carry water all year round, while many peninsular rivers shrink to a trickle in the dry season?
- a) It rains on the Himalayan rivers every day of the year
- b) Melting snow keeps the Himalayan rivers fed even when no rain falls
- c) The peninsular rivers are older, and old rivers dry up
- d) The Himalayan rivers are wider, so they hold more water to begin with
7.India's rivers fall into two families. Sort each river into the one it belongs to.
Groups: A Himalayan river · A peninsular river
- The Yamuna
- The Godavari
- The Ganga
- The Krishna
- The Narmada
- The Kaveri
- The Indus
- The Brahmaputra
8.Most peninsular rivers flow east into the Bay of Bengal. Two great ones flow west into the Arabian Sea instead: the Tapi and the ______.

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India's states, seas and neighbours

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.

1.Which island country lies just off India's southern tip, across a narrow strait?
2.Put these neighbours of India in order, starting with the one furthest west and ending with the one furthest east.
- Bhutan
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Myanmar
- Bangladesh
3.Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of India's mainland. Which stretch of water lies beyond it?
- a) The Bay of Bengal alone
- b) The Indian Ocean
- c) The Arabian Sea alone
- d) No water at all — the land carries on
4.Match each state to its capital city.
- Rajasthan
- Maharashtra
- West Bengal
- Tamil Nadu
- Assam
- Mumbai
- Kolkata
- Chennai
- Dispur
- Jaipur
5.Some Indian states have a sea coast and some have none at all. Sort each state.
Groups: Has a coast on the Arabian Sea · Has a coast on the Bay of Bengal · Has no coast at all
- Rajasthan
- Gujarat
- Odisha
- Madhya Pradesh
- West Bengal
- Kerala
6.India lies in the south of which continent?
- a) Africa
- b) Australia
- c) Asia
- d) Europe
7.Which city is the capital of the whole country of India?
8.On India's own map, sort each land neighbour by the direction it lies in.
Groups: To the north-west · To the north · To the east
- Bhutan
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Myanmar
- Pakistan
- China
- Nepal

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Answer keys — Class 6 Geography

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