Answer the following questions briefly: What are the major cities located on the river Ganga?
The major cities located on the river Ganga are Lucknow, Allahabad, Patna, Kanpur, Kolkata and Varanasi.
Answer the following questions briefly.
(i) What is meant by a water divide? Give an example.
(ii) Which is the largest river basin in India?
(iii) Where do the rivers Indus and Ganga have their origin?
(iv) Name the two headstreams of the Ganga. Where do they meet to form the Ganga?
(v) Why does the Brahmaputra in its Tibetan part have less silt, despite a longer course?
(vi) Which two Peninsular rivers flow through trough?
(vii) State some economic benefits of rivers and lakes.
Answer the following questions.
(i) Name the continent in which the Amazon basin is located.
(ii) What are the crops grown by the people of the Amazon basin?
(iii) Name the birds that you are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon.
(iv) What are the major cities located on the River Ganga?
(v) Where is the one-horned rhinoceros found?
Answer thefollowing questions.
(i) Name the continentin which the Amazon basin is located.
(ii) What are the cropsgrown by the people of the Amazon basin?
(iii) Name the birdsthat you are likely to find in the rainforests of the Amazon.
(iv) What are the majorcities located on the River Ganga?
(v) Where is theone-horned rhinoceros found?