Geography

Geography

Mineral Resources in India

These principal minerals found in the country along with their estimated reserves/resources are given below: BAUXITE The Total Resources of Bauxite as per United Nations Framework Classification (UNFC) in the country are placed at about 3,290 million ...

 
World Climate

The Hot, Wet Equatorial Climate Distribution:It is found between 5° and 10° north and south of the equator.It is dominantly found in the lowlands of the Amazon, the Cango, Malaysia and the East Indies.Climate:There is great uniformity of temperature ...

 
Volcanoes

A volcano is a vent, or opening, usually circular in form, through which gases, melted lava and fragments of rocks are ejected from the highly heated interior to the surface of the earth. Crater: The narrow pipe, through which the magma comes out on ...

 
The Universe

Copernicus in 1543 A.D. proposed the heliocentric view, which states that the Sun is the centre of the Universe instead of the Earth. The Origin of the Universe Big-Bang Theoery: By E. George lamantor. According to him, 15 billion years ago there was ...

 
The Solar System

The Sun and bodies revolving around it, which includes 8 planets, satellites, comets, meteors and asteroids, together constitute the solar system. The source of energy for the sun is the nuclear fusion reaction in which Hydrogen changes into Helium. ...

 
Rocks

Rocks are made up of individual solid substance called minerals. A rock as any natural mass of mineral matter that makes up the earth's crust. On the basis of the formation, rocks are classified into : Igneous RocksSedimentary RocksMetamorphic RocksI ...

 
Ocean Currents

When ocean water moves in a fixed direction within a fixed limit (of area) with very high velocity, it is called current. The velocity of a current is more than that of drift. | Ocean currents can be divided into two type warm currents and cold curre ...

 
Mountains and Plateau

Mountains are such highlands whose slopes are steep and the peaks are pointed. Generally, the mountains are more than 1000 mts high. The mountains whose height is less than 1000 mts, are called hills. The highest point of a mountain or a hill is call ...

 
Mountain Ranges of the World

 NameLocationHighest Point 1. Cordillera de Los Andes Western S America Aconcagua 2. Rockies Western N America Mount Albert 3. Himalaya-Karakoram-Hindukush South Central Asia Mount Everest 4. Great Dividing Range Eastern Australia M ...

 
Motions of the Earth

The Earth has two types of motions: Rotational Motion Revolutional or Orbital MotionRotation : The Earth rotates on its axis, from west to east like a top. This motion is called Rotation of the Earth.Revolution : While rotating on its axis, the ea ...

 
Major Straits of the world

Name Joins Location Malacca Strait Andaman Sea & South China Sea Indonesia - Malaysia Palk Strait Palk Bay & Bay of Bengal India-Sri Lanka Sunda Strait Java Sea & Indian Ocean Indonesia Yucatan Strait Gulf of Mexico and Carribbean Sea ...

 
Landforms

Different Landforms on the earth crust are caused by both endogenetic forces and exogenectic forces Endogenetic Forces The forces, which the affect crust of the earth, are divided into two broad categories on the basis of their sources of origin, the ...

 
Lakes and Rivers

Lakes Lake Baikal (Russia) is the deepest lake of the world.One of the biggest and most ancient lakes of world is situated nearly in the center of Asia in a huge stone bowl set 445 m above sea level. Everyone who has been to its shores is impressed a ...

 
Latitudes, Longitudes, and International Date Line

Latitudes It can be defined as the angular distance measured at the centre of the Earth with espect to any point on the meridian. These are depicted in degrees, minutes and seconds. Equator is called the 0° latitude. These are imaginary circles, draw ...

 
Interior Structure of the Earth

The study of the earth's interior is the subject of Geology, Since, the interior part of the earth is not visible directly, knowledge about it is gathered through indirect means. The earth as a whole has been divided into 3 broad zones - Crust, Mantl ...

 
Indian Irrigation

Water is very important for survival of all forms of life- plant as well as animal. India, by virtue of its peculiar placement in the foothills of the Himalayas and the Deccan Plateau running through it, has vast water resources which have been very ...

 
Humidity and Precipitation

Humidity of the air refers to the content of water vapour present in the air at a particular time and place. The moisture retaining capacity or humidity capacity refers to the capacity of an air of certain volume at certain temperature to retain maxi ...

 
Geographical Sobriquets (Surname)

Surname Name Bengal’s Sorrow Damodar River Blue Mountains Nilgiri Hills City of Sky-scrapers New York City of Seven Hills Rome City of Dreaming Spires Oxford City of palaces Kolkata City of Golden Gate San Francisco City of Magnificent ...

 
Air Masses, Fronts and Cyclones

Air Mass: An air mass may be defined as a large body of air whose physical properties, especially temperature and humidity are more or less uniform horizontally for hundreds of kilometres. Fronts: A Front is that sloping boundary which separates two ...

 
Famous Cities and River Banks in India and Other Countries

CityCountryRiver Adelaide Australia Torrens Amsterdam Netherlands Amsel Alexandria Egypt Nile Ankara Turkey Kazil Allahabad India At the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna Agra India Yamuna Ayodhya India Saryu Ahmedabad India Sabarmati Ba ...

 
Earthquakes

An earthquake is a vibration or oscillation of the surface of the earth caused by the elasticity or the isostatic adjustment of the rocks, beneath the surface of the earth. It may be caused by human as well as natural activities. Before the earthquak ...

 
Crops and Leading Producers States

Crops NameNo 1 ProducerNo 2 ProducerNo 3 Producer Bajra Gujarat Rajasthan Barley Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan   Cardamom Karnataka Kerala   Castor seed Gujarat Andhra Pradesh   Chillies (dry) Tamil Nadu Andhra Pradesh   Coffee ...

 
Atmospheric Pressure and Winds

The air, that is a mixture of several gases, exerts pressure through its weight. Air pressure or atmospheric pressure is defined as total weight of a mass of column of air above per unit area at sea level. Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure Verti ...

 
Atmosphere

The atmosphere is a thick gaseous envelope which surrounds the earth from all sides and is attached the earth's surface by gravitational force. It filters the incoming solar radiation and thus prevents the ultraviolet rays to reach the earth's surfac ...

 

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