Showing posts with label Geographies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Geographies. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Latitudes and Longitudes

Latitudes and longitudes help us to define the location off any plce in thee world.  Latitudes and Longitudes intersects each other at right angles forming a Grid. This network is helpful in locating the different places on the map or the globe.

Ocean

1) The pacific ocean is the largest ocean which covers more than one third of the Earth's surface.

2) The Atlantic ocean is the second largest ocean.

3) Indian ocean is the only which has been named after a country.

Continents

1) Asia is the largest continent.

2) Africa is the second largest continent.

3) Australia is the smallest continent.

4) Antarctica is a icy continent.


List of Continents

There are seven continents:

1) Asia

2) Africa

3) North America

4) South America

5) Europe

6) Antarctica

7) Australia

Map

 Ptolemy was the first person to draw a map.

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Solar and Lunar Eclipse

Solar Eclipse:

When the moon comes between the sun and the earth the shadow of the moon falls on the Earth.  People who are in that part of the earth cannot see the Sun. This is called solar Eclipse.This occur only a New Moon Day

Lunar Eclipse:

A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth blocks the sun's rays from reaching the moon. This can occur only when the earth comes in between the Sun and the moon. A lunar eclipse can occur only on a Full Moon Day.

Eclipse

Eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another.

There are two type of Eclipse:

1) Solar eclipse

2) Lunar eclipse

Longest and Shortest Day

The longest day in the northern hemisphere-22nd june.

The shortest day in the northern hemisphere-22nd December.

Friday, 27 July 2012

Nation park and Wild life sanctuaries

There are 17 wild life sanctuaries and 66 National parks in India.

Sanctuary

The sanctuary is a protected environment where animals can live and reproduce.

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Types of Soil

* Alluvial soil

* Black soil

* Red soil

* Laterite soil

* Desert soil

Dam

The Bhakra Nangal Dam is the Highest Dam in India.

The Hirakud dam is the longest Dam in the world.

Sunday, 8 July 2012

The Ganges River

The Ganges is the largest river of the Indian subcontinent,flowing east through the Gangetic Plain of Northern India in to Bangladesh. The 2,510 Km river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand. The Ganges Basin drains 1,000,000 Km and supports one of the world's highest densities of humans. The river has been declared as India's National River.

Earth

The layers of the Earth can be compared with a mango or boiled egg or cricket ball for better understanding.

Shallow

The Tethys sea was a shallow sea between the Angara and Gondwana land.

Pacific Plate

The Pacific plate is the largest plate and it covers about 1/5th of entire Earth's surface.

Egypatians

The Egypatians Visualized that earth was a floating sphere on the sea.

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Light

Light travels distance of 3 lakh Km in one second.