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  National Waterways of India *Managed by Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI), Noida. *Cheapest means of transportation. *Fuel efficient *Environment friendly *Used for Bulky and heavy goods. Important Waterways of India are: NW-1: Ganga, Haldia to   Allahabad,    1620 KM,   declared in 1986 NW-2: Brahamputra, Dhubri to    Sadiya(Tinsukia Dist.),    891KM, declared in 1988. NW-3: West Coast Canal,    Kerala. 205KM. NW-4: Krishna and Godavari,   Kakinda to Pondicherry,   1078KM,    declared   2008 NW-5: Brahmini and   Mahanadi,   588KM,   declared in   2008 NW-6: Barak river, Bahnga   to Lakhipur, 121KM, declared   in 2016 NW-7: Sunderbans and   Bangladesh Other 106 National Waterways are in the pipeline, See the list below from the website of Inland Waterway Authority of India. Purchase these useful books of Geography: Human Geography by Maji...

  Shifting Cultivation Names in different parts of the World DEFINITION A form of agriculture, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored. A form of land use among resource poor communities with a rotation of cultivation and fallow in the same unit of land. India Jhum – N.E. India Kumri- W. Ghats Watra- S.E. Rajasthan Podu/Dabi/Koman/ Bringa- Odisha Pendar/Bewar/Dahia/ Deppa/Kumri- Bastar Nevad- Khandad- Asia Lading- S.E. Asia Ladang- Indonesia/Malaysia Caingin- Phillipines Ray- Vietnam Taungya- Myanmar Tamrai- Thailand Hamah- Java Chena- Sri Lanka      Other Milpa- Mexico & Central America Roca-    Brazil Mosale- Congo & Central Africa Conuco- Venezuela   Watch the Video on Youtube: Visit our Youtube Channel:   https://www.youtube.com/c/ShahbazAlam1990/playlists...

  Satellites and its Altitude SATELLITE                                             ALTITUDE IKONOS     (USA)                                       681 KM LANDSAT (USA)                                 705 KM TIROS (USA)                                        724 KM SPOT (FRANCE) ...

  PORTS OF INDIA Gujarat Kandala/ Deendyal Port 1/13 (1 out of 13 major ports) Okha Port Porbandar Port Veraval Port Surat Port Maharastra Mumbai Port 2/13 Jawaharlal Nehru 3/13 Ratnagiri Port Watch the video on Youtube: Goa Panji Port Marmagoa 4/13 Panji Port Marmagoa 4/13 Karnataka Karwar Port Mangalore 5/13                     Visit our Youtube Channel :  https://www.youtube.com/c/ShahbazAlam1990 Kerala Kozhikode Port Cochin 6/13 Alappuzha Port Adani port, Trivandram Tamil Nadu Tuticorin/ V.O. Chidambaranar 7/13 Nagpattanam Chennai Port 8/13 Kamrajar, Ennore Dist. 9/13 Andhra Pradesh Machlipattnam/ Nellor Dist Kakinada Port Vishakhapattanam 10/13 Odisha Paradeep Port 11/13 West Bengal Haldia Port Diamond Harbor 12/13 Andaman & Nicobar Port Blair Port 13/13 Purchase Savindra Singh, Physical Geography book :  https://amzn.to/3RnF...

  What is Pass? A route over or through mountains. A navigable route through a mountain range. Example: Khyber Pass              (Islamabad- Kabul ) Bolan Pass & Khojak Pass (to Kandhar)   Jammu & Kashmir and Laddakh Banihal Pass-                                            Jammu- Srinagar Highway Pirpanjal Pass ( Peer ki Gali)-                 Pirpanjal range Umasi La-                                                 Central J&K Zoji La, Minmarg, Burzil, Kalapani, Mohari-     ...

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Local Winds Type of Winds 1. Permanent Winds/Invariable Winds/Prevailing Winds: Trade Winds Westerlies Polar Winds 2 . Variable Winds: Seasonal Winds Local Winds Mountain and Valley breezes Land and Sea breezes Different Local Winds of the world:  Chinook Warm and dry,   in Rockies, Snow eater Foehn Chinook type in Switzerland   Dr. Harmattan - Warm and dry, in western Africa Brickfielder- Victoria in Australia Blackroller- Great plain of USA Shamal- Iraq, Persia Norwester- Newzealand   Sirocco - Warm, dry and dusty, from Sahara to Europe, Blood rain Khamsin-  Egypt Gibli- Libya Chilli- Tunisia Leste- Morocco Simoon- Arebean dese Mistral Cold, Spain and France in Rhone valley Bora- Greece Navoya Zemlaya- Scandinavia Blizzard North and South polar region, cold Norther- USA Burran- Siberia   Other local winds Haboon-           Sudan, dusty, warm Ghabri- ...

  TEMPERATE GRASSLAND Definition •        Area in which the vegetation is dominated by a continuous cover of grasses. •        land on which. the vegetation is dominated by grasses. •        There is grasses no trees. •        land covered with herbaceous plants with less than 10 percent tree and shrub cover- IUCN •        Mostly found in Temperate region of the world.   PRARIES *         Prairies- North America *         Steppes- Central Asia and Russia *         Pampas- South America (Argentina, Uruguay) *         Veld- South Africa ( bush veld, high veld) *         Downland/Rangeland- Australia *     ...

  FISHING ZONES OF THE WORLD   Grand Bank                        New Found land Dogger Bank                       North Sea Bahia Balanca                     Argentina Sunda shelf                        Indonesia Coast of Japan                      Japan Watch the video on Youtube Visit the youtube channel of Shah Edu Center:  https://www.youtube.com/c/ShahbazAlam1990  

  DESERTS OF THE WORLD DEFINITION •        a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand. •         an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters of precipitation a year. •        Desert: It is an arid region characteriesed by extremely high or low temperatures and has scarce vegetation. (NCERT) •        Cold desert and Hot desert ASIA Thar-                     India, Pakistan Laddakh-              India Gobi-                    Mangolia, China Takla Makan-     China Karakum-         ...

Country                                Names China-                                   Typhoon Japan-                                   Taifu Philippines                         Baguio USA                                       Hurricane Au...

Cyclone - Anti-clockwise in Northern Hemisphere                                     Clockwise in Southern Hemisphere   Anti-Cyclone - Clockwise in Northern Hemisphere                                                  Anti-clockwise in Southern  Hemisphere Ocean Current Circulation/ Gyre - (Same as Anti-Cyclone)                                                   Clockwise in Northern Hemisphere                                         Anti-c...

  Different kinds of  Cultivation What is Cultivation? •      The action of cultivating land. •      The act of trying to develop or improve or grow something. Different Kinds of Cultivation Agriculture- Growing crops and rearing livestock. Horticulture- Growing   fruits, vegetables, flowers etc. Olericulture- Growing vegetables. Floriculture- Growing flowers. Viticulture- Growing of grapes. Apiculture- Beekeeping for honey. Sericulture- Growing silk.   Aquaculture- Growing of fish, whales, sea plants etc. Pisciculture- Growing of fish. Mariculture- Growing of marine fish. Silviculture- Growing of perennial woody plants Arboriculture- Gr...