NCERT Solutions for Class 5th The World Around Us Chapter 1 Follow the Flow! — Activity 7
Book page 13 Updated on2026-09-19
Q1.
Follow the Flow! In the map, you can see the rivers flowing in different directions. Some flow into the Bay of Bengal and some into the Arabian Sea. Observe and fill in the table. (Given: Godavari, Narmada, Ganga — and blank rows for more rivers.)The map of India on page 12, redrawn here at true latitude and longitude. It shows the same eight rivers as the book’s map. *Map not to scale.
Name of the River
Moves towards the Bay of Bengal
Moves towards the Arabian Sea
Godavari
Narmada
Ganga
The table printed with Activity 7 on page 13 — three rivers are named for you and three rows are left empty for rivers you find on the map yourself.
Answer
The map on page 12 names eight rivers: Brahmaputra, Ganga, Yamuna, Narmada, Tapti, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri. Trace each one with your finger until it reaches the sea, then tick the right column.
Name of the River
Moves towards the Bay of Bengal
Moves towards the Arabian Sea
Godavari
✓
—
Narmada
—
✓
Ganga
✓
—
Brahmaputra
✓
—
Yamuna
✓ (it joins the Ganga first)
—
Tapti
—
✓
Krishna
✓
—
Kaveri
✓
—
Bay of Bengal — 6 rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri Arabian Sea — 2 rivers: Narmada, Tapti
Why so many go east: The high Western Ghats run close to the west coast, so the land east of them slopes gently all the way to the Bay of Bengal. Only the Narmada and the Tapti lie in valleys that slope the other way, towards the west.
A word for it: a river that joins a bigger river instead of going straight to the sea, like the Yamuna joining the Ganga, is called a tributary. You will meet that word again in Chapter 2.