Test: Our India- Physical Features- 2

Our country India is the second most populated country in the world.

• The Himalaya is the world's highest mountain range home to all fourteen peaks over 8,000m including Everest and K2.
• Himalaya means "abode of snow" with an estimated 15,000 glaciers throughout the range.

At night, the sun no longer heats the desert and the heat from the day doesn't stay trapped. Because of this, some deserts can get cold at night.

• The Indo-Gangetic plain It is irrigated by three important rivers,the Ganges, Indus and Brahmaputra.
• This vast plain is most fertile and productive because of the alluvial soil brought by the streams of the rivers and its tributaries.

• A peninsula is a body of land jutting into a lake or ocean, surrounded on three sides by water.
• A gulf is a body of water that juts into a land mass, is larger than a bay, and is surrounded on three sides by land.