Indian Environment
Indian Monsoon
In India, there was only one big weather event every year, and that
was the monsoon. Most of the year, it was very dry and sunny in India.
Everything got hot and dusty and brown. But around May, clouds
would start to gather, and it would get very muggy and heavy-feeling,
and everybody would feel like they were waiting for something to happen.
And then one day finally it would start raining, all at once. Buckets
and buckets of it! That was the monsoon.
It would keep raining for about a month, every day, all day long.
Flowers bloomed and trees put out leaves and everything started to grow,
all at once. Farmers hurried to catch the water in their irrigation
canals and lead the precious water to their fields.
Himalayas
And then it would stop. The rest of the year would be dry again.
So you can see that if the monsoon didn't come, one year, it would be very bad for the people and animals in India. There were some years when the monsoon didn't come, and then the plants didn't grow and people went hungry.
So you can see that if the monsoon didn't come, one year, it would be very bad for the people and animals in India. There were some years when the monsoon didn't come, and then the plants didn't grow and people went hungry.
But where there are rivers or mountains, people don't have to depend
so much on the monsoon. In northern India there are the Himalaya mountains,
where there is snow all year round.
Indus river (above) and Ganges river (right)
In western India (modern Pakistan), there's the Indus River, and
in eastern India, there's the Ganges River. These two rivers account
for most of the early Indian cities
and farming.
Animals of India
Plants of India
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