Social Studies
Year 6 Revision
Erosion mountain hill
Dams mountain range
Oceans and seas Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China
Precipitation
River basin
Oxbow lake
Floodplain
Delta
1. Where is most water stored in the water cycle?
2. How does water move from the air to the land?
3. What is the process called in which the moving water and the sand and rocks bump and rub against the
rocks on the bottom and sides of the river and slowly wear them away?
4. What do you call the whole area of land from which a river gets its water?
5. What forms when one of the meanders is cut off and forms a lake on either side of the river?
6. What do you call a large flat area on either side of the river where it is flooded repeatedly?
7. What do you call the deposited mud and sand at the mouth of a river?
8. These are used to catch and store rainwater or melted snow from the mountains.
9. What do you call the landform that rises 300 meters above the land around it?
10. What do you call the mountains that are found in long chains?
11. Which countries are covered by the Himalayas?
B. Write true if the statement is correct. Otherwise, write false. If it is false, underline the word that
makes it false.
12.___________ As you climb up a mountain, the higher you go, the colder it gets.
13. ___________ Most rain or snow falls over the oceans and seas.
14. ___________ Ninety percent of the rain or snow falls on the land.
15. ___________ Millions of years ago, Mt Everest was not a mountain, but was underneath the ocean.
16. ____________ Most of the River Amazon runs through rainforests, rather than roads and cities.
17. ____________ The River Amazon runs almost level for 5500 km. to the sea.
18. ____________ Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake and the largest tropical lake in the world.
19. ____________ There are no high mountains in Antarctica.
20. ____________ There are no mountains on the bottom of the oceans.
Answer the following.
a. Why is there no proper delta at the mouth of Amazon River?
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b. Why is there so much litter at the top of Mt. Everest?
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c. How does a relief map show its hills and mountains and the rise and fall of land?
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d. How are waterfalls formed?
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e. Why was flooding the River Nile important in the past?
f. Why were towns and villages built near rivers in the past?
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