Saturday 12 September 2015

Physical Geography

  • Venus is known as "Evening star as well as morning star. Venus is also Known as Earth's Twin. Venus is also a Hottest planet. Venus is also a brightest planet 
  •  The saturn ring was discovered by Galileo
  •  Jupiter is largest planet of the Earth. Jupiter is also known as Winter Planet
  •  Solar eclispse occur when moon lies between the sun and the earth.
  •  Lunar eclispse occur when earth lies between the sun and the moon
  •  The instrument used for recording earthquakes waves is seismograph
  • Mars is known as Red planet
  • Proxima centuri is the closest star to the earth after sun
  • Perihelion is the position of the earth or any planet in its orbit when it is at its the nearest to the sun
  • Aphelion is the position  of the earth or any planet in its orbit when it is at distant from the sun
  • Apogee is the Farthest position of earth to moon
  • Perigee is the nearest position of earth to moon
  • 21 june is the longest day on the northern Hemisphere
  • 22 December is the shortest day on the northern Hemisphere
  • The highest mount peak in india is mount K2
  • Richter scale and Mercalli scale are the instruments to measure the intensity of the earthquake
  • Lakshadweep is a group of 36 coral island in the Arabian sea
  • NH-7 is the longest National Highway which runs from varanasi to Kanyakumari
  • Indian railway network is the largest network in the Asia. First rail in India started in 1853 between Mumbai to Thane (34 Kms)
  • Tropic of cancer passes through Eight states:- Gujarat, Rajasthan, M.P, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, west bengal, Tripura, mioram
  • Goa is the smallest state of india in area wise, Sikkim is the smallest state of india in population wise




 

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