What is an island?
Land with a ring of blue.
An island is a piece of land with water all around it. You reach one by boat, ship or plane.
↳ Water on every side makes an island.
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Some Unique Places · Class 5 EVS · Our Wondrous World
English 3 topics 66 leveled MCQs 36 flashcards 6 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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India's islands
A thousand and more.
The seas around India hold over a thousand islands. Many of them are part of our country. The longest chain is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
↳ Our country reaches far out into the sea.
Indira Point and Kanyakumari
Two southern tips.
↳ The mainland is not the end of India.
What the Sundarbans is
The biggest of its kind.
The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world. It grows where the river Ganga meets the sea.
↳ A forest that stands in salty mud.
What is a mangrove?
Trees built for salt.
A mangrove is a tree that lives in wet, salty, muddy land. Most other trees would die in that ground.
↳ Salty mud is a mangrove's home.
Roots that breathe
Why the sticks stand up.
↳ Upright roots are the tree's air pipes.
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1
Islands of India
An island is land with water all around it. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands hold rare trees, rare birds and coral reefs, and reach the southern tip of our country.
- An island is a piece of land with water all around it.
- More than a thousand islands lie in the seas around India, and many are part of our country.
- Indira Point, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, is the southernmost tip of India.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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Sundarbans: Home of the Mangroves
The Sundarbans is the world's largest mangrove forest. Its special trees live in salty mud, breathe through upright roots, hold the soil and shelter people and wildlife.
- The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world.
- It grows where the river Ganga meets the sea, so the land is muddy and the water salty.
- Mangroves send up stick-like roots that help them breathe in the packed mud.
~30 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Green Hills: The Northeast and the Western Ghats
The Northeast and the Western Ghats are hotspots of nature. They hold rare animals, medicine plants and the start of rivers, and people there live closely with the forest.
- The Seven Sisters and Sikkim together make up the Northeast of India.
- A hotspot is a place holding plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.
- Living root bridges are grown from tree roots and get stronger with care.
~32 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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66 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Rohit's boat drops him on land that has sea on every side. He has landed on ____.
Beginner
A a mainland
B a valley
C an island
D a desert
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an island
Land with water all around it is an island.
Which is the southernmost tip of India?
Beginner
A Indira Point
B Kanyakumari
C Sri Vijaya Puram
D The Sundarbans
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Indira Point
Indira Point, out in the islands, is India's southernmost tip.
Read the four sentences. Which one is true?
Intermediate
A An island touches land on three sides.
B Corals are coloured stones.
C Andaman hornbills live all over India.
D India has more than a thousand islands.
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India has more than a thousand islands.
Over a thousand islands lie in the seas around India; corals are animals and hornbills of these islands live only there.
A tall paper roll keeps falling over. Sticking wide triangles round its bottom makes it stand. Which tree part works in the same way?
Intermediate
A The leaves at the top of the tree
B The wide spreading roots
C The flowers on the upper branches
D The bark around the trunk
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The wide spreading roots
Wide roots make a broad base that holds the tall trunk steady.
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