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Geography
Geography
1. Suez canal connects Mediterranean sea with Red sea 2. Transport of heat energy from one molecule to next molecule is called conduction 3. Mangroves are tropical flowering plants 4. Global warming is gradual increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere 5. Population Pyramid shows population according to age and sex 6. Natural process of atmospheric heating is called greenhouse effect 7. Baltic sea is in Northern Europe closed sea 8. Condensation is process of change of gas to liquid state 9. Prairies are North American grasslands 10. Contraction of smoke & fog is called smog 11. Hurricane are storms east of International Date Line 12. Horizontal transport via wind through atmosphere 13. Tornado is rotating column of air 14. Diurnal cycle is pattern of temperature change during a day 15. Typhoon happen in North Pacific, west of International Date Line 16. Annual cycle is pattern of temperature change during a year 17. Spring tide occur of full & new moon 18. Rome is on the brink of Tiber river 19. Shikoku is Japanese island in Pacific ocean 20. Darling is a river in Australia 21. Granite is an Igneous rock 22. Mauna Loa is in Hawaii, US 23. Orogentic movements is process of mountain formation 24. Epeirogenic movements are slow movement of earth's crust 25. Po is the largest river of Italy 26. Portugal & Spain make Iberian Peninsula 27. Aswan dam is in Egypt 28. Pindus mountains are in Greece, Europe 29. Andes is a mountain range of South America 30. The Great Bight is in Australia 31. Australia is in Indian ocean 32. Great Bear lake is the largest lake of Canada 33. Volcanic Mt. Etna is in Italy 34. Magma is plutonic igneous rock 35. Polar Front Theory was proposed by Wilhelm Firman Koren Bjerknes 36. Dust bowl is in US 37. Gibraltar is key to Mediterranean sea 38. 1 mile is equal to1.6 km 39. Nice is in France 40. Radiation is the transmission of energy in the form of electromagnetic vases 41. Kiel canal flows in Germany 42. Incoming solar radiation from sun is called insulation 43. Tirat Tsavi is in Israel 44. Barometer is used to measure atmospheric pressure 45. Rivadavia is in Argentina 46. Humidity of air is measured by hygrometer 47. Era of recent life on geological time scaling is called Cenozoic 48. Udometer is used to measure amount of precipitation in the air 49. Dallol is in Ethiopia 50. Direction of wind is measured by anemometer 51. Vostok is in Antarctica 52. Sarmiento is in Argentina 53. Seville is in Spain 54. Bering sea connects Bering sea and artic sea 55. Distribution & arrangement of all elements of earth's surface is geography 56. Bore is tidal wave in river 57. Marble is metamorphic rock 58. Canyon is a narrow valley 59. Surma is river in Bangladesh 60. Maize, rice & wheat are cereal crops 61. Geyser is throwing of hot water in air 62. Rock debris resulting from weathering is called Alluvium 63. Isle of Man is in UK 64. Mt. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania 65. Windhoek is capital of Namibia 66. Cape York peninsula is in Australia 67. Bering sea separates Russia & Alaska 68. Alps is mountain system of Europe 69. Mata is in Mediterranean sea 70. Valencia is in Spain 71. Gulf of Bothnia is in Baltic sea 72. Japan is leading fishing country 73. Isle of Wight is in UK 74. Bali island is in Indian ocean 75. Great salt lake is in US 76. Port of Palermo is in Italy 77. Gulf of Carpentaria is in Australia 78. Lhasa is the highest capital city 79. Laccolith is the upper layer of crust 80. Standard atmospheric pressure is 760 mm 81. Mount Tasman is in New Zealand 82. Quartz is metamorphic rock 83. Aletsch glacier is in Bermese Oberland of Switzerland 84. Limestone is sedimentary rock 85. Uplands of Brittany are in France 86. Microtherm are the plants adapted to withstand low temperature 87. Marie Byrd land is in Antarctica 88. Megatherm are the plants adapted to withstand considerable heat 89. Meanders are the bends in river cannel 90. Mesotherm are the plants adapted to withstand intermediate temperature 91. Mount Fuji is in Tokyo 92. Mesozoic is the era of medieval life on the geological scale 93. "Origin of continents & oceans" written by German scientist Alfred Wegner 94. Systematical study of atmospheric phenomenon that constitute weather is called meteorology 95. Island of Surtsey is in Iceland 96. Mercalli scale is used to measure earthquakes & its impact on human landscape 97. Wrangell mountains is in Alaska state of US 98. Marble is metamorphic rock 99. Magnetosphere is the upper portion of thermosphere 100. Malaspina glacier is in Alaska state of US 101. Thermosphere is the outermost of atmosphere layers 102. Deposit of dust blown by wind is called loess 103. 104. Soil containing sand, silt & clay is called loam 105. The outermost shell of solid earth is lithosphere 106. The process of rock formation is called lithification 107. Liana is the tropical rainforest vine rooted in the ground 108. Lava is magma that reaches earth's surface 109. Wicklow mountain is in Ireland 110. Laurasia is the northern portion of super continent, Pangaea 111. Gondwana is the southern portion of super continent, Pangaea 112. Karst is distinctive landscape associated with underground chemical erosion 113. A chemically inactive that does not combine with other gases is called inert gas e.g. argon 114. Permeable is a surface that allows water to pass through 115. Transvaal is in South Africa 116. Hydrophytes are plants adapted to the moister of wet environment 117. Systematic study of earth's water & its states 118. Hydrograph is a graph of river discharge overtime 119. Henry mountain of Utah in US 120. Humus is decomposed organic matter that form a dark layer at the top of soil 121. Holocene is the current interglaciation epoch 122. Geodesy is precise study & measurement of earth's size & shape of earth 123. Foehn is the rapid movement of warm air 124. Flora refers to plant life of a region 125. Kansu region in China struck earthquake in 1920 126. Fauna is the animal life of a region 127. Erg is the sand desert 128. Escarpment is very sharp cliff 129. Epiphyte is plant that uses tree as a support but not parasitic 130. Epeirogeny is vertical movement of earth's crust over a large area 131. Dune is accumulation of sand that is shaped by wind action 132. Diastrophism is process whereby large continental areas undergo slight deformation without bending 133. Decline in temperature with increase in altitude is called lapse rate 134. Athbasca river is in Canada 135. Drought is the low ability of water lasting for months 136. Ephemeral plants are plants which complete their life cycle within single growing season 137. Gravel is sedimentary rock 138. Point on the earth's surface above earth quake is called epicenter 139. Condensation is process by which substance is transformed from gaseous to liquid state 140. Mount Peleu is in West Indies 141. Gigantic tidal waves in ocean are called tsunami 142. Geographical study of climates is called climatology 143. Herbivores are animals which eat vegetations 144. Carnivores are animals which eat flesh 145. Omnivores are animals which eat flesh & vegetation 146. Berm is the flat sandy beach that lies in the backshore beach beyond the shore of normal daily waves action 147. River wear is in Durham in England 148. Mount Nuevo is in Naples 149. Convection is the spontaneous vertical air movement in atmosphere 150. Process of changing liquid into gaseous state is called evaporation 151. Wye valley is in Monmouthshire in England 152. Upwelling is the rising of cold water from ocean depths to the surface 153. Kelang Gates Ridges are in Malaysia 154. Harz mountain is in Germany 155. Gyre is continuous moving loop in ocean 156. Hwang ho is famous for china's sorrow 157. Proportion of incoming radiation that is reflected by the surface 158. Kaieteur fall is in Guyana 159. Transmission of energy in form of electromagnetic waves is called radiation 160. Isle of Mull & Arran are in England 161. Minimal ameliorating influence of ocean on air temperature is called continental effect 162. Mount Forel is in Greenland 163. Graphite is metamorphic rock 164. Vulcan is an island in Sicily 165. Moderating influence of ocean on air temperature is called maritime effect 166. Rhine valley is in Western Germany 167. Advection is the horizontal transport of heat through atmosphere via wind 168. Thalweg is the deepest part of stream channel 169. Mount Mayon is in Philippines 170. Shale is sedimentary rock 171. Earthquake struck Agadir in 1906 is in Morocco 172. Average altitude of troposphere is 12 km 173. 70% earthquakes struck in Circum-Pacific Belt 174. Cleveland dyke is in England 175. Schist is metamorphic rock 176. 20% earthquakes struck in Mediterranean-Himalayas Belt 177. Denudation is process of wearing away of earth causing lowering & leveling of surface 178. Rotorua region center of geothermal power is in New Zealand 179. Vulcan is god of fire in Greek mythology 180. Mount Strombali is lightening house of Mediterranean 181. Steppes are grasslands in Russia 182. Mount Agung is in Bali 183. Pampas are grasslands in Russia 184. Appalachians mountain is in America 185. Mount Cotopaxi is in Ecuador 186. Prairies are grasslands in north America 187. Antrim plateau is in northern Ireland 188. Slate is metamorphic rock 189. Nitrogen constitutes 78% of atmosphere 190. Oxygen constitutes 21% of atmosphere 191. Carbon Dioxide constitutes 0.04% of atmosphere 192. Zionism is the movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora & to establish national homeland for them 193. Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer was held in 1985 194. Montreal Protocol was signed in 1987 195. Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997 196. United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in 2005 197. Nautical Mile is standard measure at sea is equal to 1.85 kilometers 198. One-Child Policy was launched by China in 1979 199. Pandemic is outbreak of a disease that spreads worldwide 200. Pangaea is a term coined by Alfred Wegner 201. Pastoralism is agricultural activity that involves the raising of livestock 202. Determinism holds that natural environment is the crucial factor in cultural development 203. Pelagic Species are organism that live in open lakes & ocean waters 204. A state whose territory completely surrounds that of another state is called Perforated State 205. Number of people per unit area of arable land refers to Physiologic Density 206. Possibilism holds that human decision making is the crucial factor in cultural development 207. Prime Meridian has longitude 0 degree 208. Royal Observatory of Greenwich is near London 209. Pull Factor refers to perception that attracts to new local from other areas 210. Perception that induces people to leave their abode & migrate to new locals is Push Factor 211. Quaternary Industries refers to collection, processing & manipulation of information & capital 212. Qinary industries require high level of specialized knowledge or technical skill 213. Rimland is coined by Nicholas Spykman 214. Sedentary refers to population permanently attached to a particular area 215. Sephardim is Jewish ethnic group 216. Time-space compression term associated with David Harvey 217. Time-space convergence is coined by Ronald Janelle 218. Toponomy refers to etymological study of place names or associated languages 219. Strait of Tiran connects Gulf of Aqaba with Red Sea 220. Town-and-Range System a rectangular land division designed by Thomas Jefferson 221. Cultural borrowing that occurs when different cultures come into close contact is known as Transculturation 222. Strait of Hormuz connects Persian Gulf with Gulf of Eden (Arabian sea) 223. Transhumance refers to seasonal movement of pastorals & their livestock between highlands & lowlands pastures 224. United Nations Convention on Environment & Development (UNCED) also known as Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 225. Strait of Malacca connects Andaman Sea with South China Sea 226. United nations Conference on Human Environment held in 1972 227. Puntland is Somalia's breakaway land 228. Tiran Island is in Saudi Arabia 229. Sichuan earthquake (China) had intensity of 7.9 on Richter Scale 230. Strait of Messina connects Tyrrhenian Sea with Ionian Sea 231. 50% urbanization of the world till 2008 232. 70% urbanization of the world till 2050 by UN 233. Proposal of Mediterranean union was put forward by Nicholas Sarkozy 234. Kosovo declared independence in 17th Feb 2008 as 195th country 235. Strait of Gibraltar connects Mediterranean Sea with Atlantic Ocean 236. Venezuela has the offset time zone 237. United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 238. Greenland got autonomy from Denmark 239. Roe River is shortest river of the World only 61 miles long 240. South Ossetia is an autonomous region of Georgia 241. Aquaculture refers to using river segments for the raising & harvesting of food products 242. Ashkenazim is the Jewish ethnic group 243. The fragmentation of a region into smaller hostile political units is called Balkanization 244. Varity of plants & animal species in a particular place is called biodiversity 245. Salween River is in Tibet & china 246. Buffer zone refers to countries separating ideological or political adversaries 247. Colonial Drift a notion hypothesized by Alfred Wegner 248. Encroachment of desert conditions on moister zones along desert margins refers to Desertification 249. Tigris & Euphrates rivers are in Iraq 250. Belief that political destabilization in one country can result in the collapse in neighboring countries known as Domino Theory 251. Qyzylkum desert is in Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan 252. Linkage of organism to their environment is known as Ecosystem 253. Irrawaddy river is in Myanmar 254. Ecumene refers to portion of the world's land surface that is permanently settled by human being 255. Enclave is a piece of territory that is surrounded by another political unit of which it is not a part 256. Garagum Desert is in Turkmenistan 257. A disease that is particular to an area is called endemic 258. Ob, Yenisey & Lena rivers are in Russia 259. ethnic cleansing refers to forced removal of one ethnic group from its lands by other group 260. Rub-al-Khali Desert is in Saudi Arabia 261. Eugenic protection act was enacted in 1948 by Japanese government, permitting abortion 262. Elbruz Mountains are in Iran 263. Exclave refers to a bounded piece of territory that is part of another state 264. Shantytown on the outskirts in Brazil are known as Favela 265. Feng Shui refers to Chinese art of placement & orientation of tombs, building & cities 266. Tian Shan Mountain range is in China 267. Geopolitics is study of interplay between international political relations & environmental context in which they occur 268. Global Environmental Facility (GEF) was established in 1991 under the auspice of UN & WB 269. Kunlun Mountain is in china 270. Heartland theory was proposed by Geographer Halford Mackinder 271. NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) came into effect in 1994 272. Pameer, the roof of the world is in central Asia mainly in Tajikistan 273. Circular Thatch Houses are built in African areas 274. Patagonia Desert is in Argentina 275. Czechoslovakia was divided into Czech & Slovakia in 1993 276. Malaspina Glacier is in Alaska in US 277. The Erosion/Geomorphic cycle was proposed by William Morris Davies 278. Mississippi River empties into Gulf of Mexico 279. Taurus Mountain range s in Southern Turkey 280. Great Victoria & Great Sandy Deserts are in Australia 281. Selva is tropical rainforest 282. River Nile is in northeast Africa 283. Lake Titicaca is in Bolivia & Peru 284. When a given Mass of air is forced to expand, its temperature decreases 285. A long ridge with a steep escarpment on one side & dipping slope & bedrocks on other is called Cuesta 286. Delta is the mouth of river where it empties into the sea or lake 287. Differentiation of soil into layers is called Horizentation 288. 1.95 calories per sq cm is the average solar energy received every minute at the top of earth's atmosphere 289. Steady-state System in which inputs & outputs are constant & equal 290. Sublimation is a process whereby a solid changes directly into gas 291. Taiga is Russian coniferous forest 292. Tarn is a small circular lake on the floor of cirque basin 293. Study of movement & defamation of earth's crust is called tectonics 294. A sand pit that forms link between the mainland & an offshore island 295. Traction is process that involves sliding of particles along riverbed 296. Passage of water into atmosphere through leaf is called transpiration |
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Excellent work
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any One suggest me best author book for geography
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For the globe Human and Physical geog by HJ deblij and others also Physical by alan strahler. pdf can downloaded from net.
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