The Bishop’s Co-Ed.

School Kalyani Nagar

Digital Module-1
Subject- Social Studies
Topic- The Northern Mountains
Class- IV (A-F)
Date:12.05.2020
 Northern Mountains of India

1. The Northern mountains of India are the highest

range of mountains in the world.
2. The Northern Mountains are known as the
Himalayas.
3.The word Himalaya in Hindi means ‘ the abode of
snow’.
The Himalayas Him
a layas
 The Himalayas forms an arch.
 They are stretching to about 2500 km
from Jammu and Kashmir in the north
to Arunachal Pradesh in the east.
 The Himalayas form a natural barrier
between India and Myanmar.
 A row of mountains is called a
mountain range.
 The Himalayas consists of three
parallel mountain ranges.
What is a Mountain range?
A row of
mountains is
called a
mountain
range.
The three mountain ranges of Himalayas
are:
1. The lowest range- It is called the Shivalik Hills or
the outermost Himalayas.
2. The middle range- It is called the Himachal or the
middle Himalayas.
3. The highest range- It is called the Himadri or the
greater Himalayas.
 Shivalik Hills
1. The Shivalik Hills have an average
height of 1250 metres above sea level.
2. It serves as home to wild animals such
as snow leopards, tigers, wild yaks,
rhinoceros and elephants.
3. The land is flat at the Terai region of the Shivalik foothill.
4. People do terrace farming of wheat and sugar cane crops,
they grow fruits in orchards and rear cattle.

Steps are cut on the

slopes of hills or
mountains
5. The Shivalik range receives heavy rainfall and is prone to
landslides, particularly during monsoon.
 What is landslide ?

Mass of earth, rock, etc that falls down

the mountain slope is called a landslide.
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