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    As a recently employed young explorer for the Straits Times you need to tell the story of the geography of The River Ganges. You have eight picture boxes in which to tell your story using pictures, cartoons, maps and diagrams.

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    As a recently employed young explorer for the Straits Times you need to tell the story of the geography of The River Ganges. You have eight picture boxes in which to tell your story using pictures, cartoons, maps and diagrams.

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    INCREDIBLE INDIA………….Once upon a young explorer called……………..

    came across
    a river called…………
    As a recently employed young explorer for the Straits Times you
    need to tell the story of the geography of the River Ganges.
    Your challenge is to tell the story using pictures, cartoons, maps
    and diagrams. You have eight picture boxes in which to tell your
    story, and above each box there is room to put some interesting
    facts or details about a location along the river. (You may add more
    boxes – but do not take any away).
    Start by taking a journey up the Ganges using Google Earth. Take
    a note of places you pass as you go upstream?

    Use Google and Moodle to search for facts and pictures to help you
    complete this work. Will you win the Outstanding Geographer
    Award for February 2008?

    Words to help you ……….GANGOTRI - MEANDERS - FLOOD PLAIN - TRIBUTARY - SOURCE- KOLKATA -
    VARANASI - VISHNUPRAYAG - DELTA - BAY OF BENGAL - HIMALAYAS - CONFLUENCE - RAPIDS -
    HARIDWAR - SUNDERBANS - MANGROVES - TIGERS - BANGLADESH - SHIVILAK HILLS -
    THE GANGES – THE RIVER OF LIFE (Example sheet) you alter this to make your own story……….

    The source of the Ganges The River Ganges starts at Several places are sacred to The River Ganges passes
    starts……. the confluence of…….. the people…… through the……
    The Ganges is considered by the
    Hindus as the holiest of rivers.

    At the confluence of the Ganges


    and and the Tamuna tributary
    near Allahabad a bathing festival
    in January and February attracts
    hundreds of thousands of
    The source of the Ganges is in pilgrims.
    an ice cave in the Himalaya’s
    near Gangotri. It is believed that any water that
    mixes with even the smallest
    amount of Ganges water
    becomes holy with healing
    powers.
    The wide fertile floodplain… One of the last cities the The vast Ganges delta….. The Ganges ends after flowing
    Ganges passes through is for…
    Kolkata ….
    2,510 km through a basin that is
    around 1,000,000 squared
    kilometres.

    In the delta, Kolkata and its


    satellite towns stretch for about
    50 miles (80 km) along both
    banks of the Hugli, forming one
    of India’s most important
    Distributaries
    concentrations of population,
    commerce, and industry.

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