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Class 6 Geography — 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.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.The Ganga begins where a glacier melts, high in the Himalayas. What is that glacier called?

  2. 2.Which great river joins the Ganga at Prayagraj?

  3. 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.

    1234

  4. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 ______.

Answer key — Class 6 Geography — The rivers of India

  1. 1.
    • Gangotri
    • the Gangotri glacier
    • Gangotri glacier
  2. 2.
    • the Yamuna
    • Yamuna
  3. 3. 3 — The Narmada
  4. 4. The Ganga → The Bay of Bengal; The Narmada → The Arabian Sea; The Godavari → The Bay of Bengal; The Tapi → The Arabian Sea; The Kaveri → The Bay of Bengal; The Indus → The Arabian Sea
  5. 5. b) An estuary — a wide, funnel-shaped mouth
  6. 6. b) Melting snow keeps the Himalayan rivers fed even when no rain falls
  7. 7. The Ganga → A Himalayan river; The Godavari → A peninsular river; The Brahmaputra → A Himalayan river; The Krishna → A peninsular river; The Yamuna → A Himalayan river; The Kaveri → A peninsular river; The Indus → A Himalayan river; The Narmada → A peninsular river
  8. 8.
    • Narmada
    • the Narmada