1. Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: Think about a chalk board. What does this artifact tell us about American culture?
Homework: Write a paragraph explaining the positives and negatives of the
monsoons in India.
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

2. Geography
The Indian subcontinent includes India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
A the highest mountains in the world, Hindu Kush, Karakorum and Himalayan ranges separate this region from the rest of India.
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

3. Physical Map of India Indus River Himalaya Mts.
Largest Mountain: Mt. Everest
Ganges River
Great Indian Desert
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

4. Political Map
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

5. Questions What made the Indus Valley a good place for a civilization?
What other civilizations have we studied that are similar to the Indus Valley?
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

6. Himalaya Mountains
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

7. Mt. Everest
The highest mountain on Earth. 29,029 feet above sea level.
Part of the Himalaya Mt. chain.
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

8. Why would you want to climb Mt. Everest?
Because it was there!!
1953: Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb to the top of Mt. Everest.
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

9. Monsoons Seasonal winds that dominate India’s climate.
From October to February, they blow dry air.
From June to October the winds shift and bring lots and lots of rain.
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

10. Tacking the Monsoons
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

11. Effects of the Monsoon Rains
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?

12. Geography of India India Located in the _________________ of Asia.
__________________ : body of land surrounded by three sides of water.
Landforms
Himalaya & Hindu Kush Mountains.
Deccan Plateau
__________ : an high flat piece of land.
Bodies of Water
Rivers: Indus & Ganges
Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal.
Climate
____________ : seasonal winds.
Causes ____________ of rain during the summer.
Makes the soil ___________ or good for growing crops.
May cause _________ which destroys farms & villages.
continent
peninsula
plateau
Monsoons
downpour
fertile
floods
Word Bank
monsoon, plateau, fertile, continent, downpour, peninsula, floods
Aim: How has the geography of India influenced its people and culture?
Do Now: What is a peninsular?