Tag: geography

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), was formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service (SCS). Its name was changed in 1994 during Presidency of Bill Clinton. It is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers. 

The tribals of singhbhun district of Jharkhand started the protest when the government decided to replace the natural sol forest, that movement is known as Jungle Bachao Andolan.

Polypack bags are made of plastic which can be recycled. Instead of throwing them, its better to recycle it.

The Arctic Ocean lies in the north of Asia bounded by America and Europe. It has a D-shaped form with an average depth of 3500m. and an area equal to 1/12 of the Pacific Ocean. The Arctic Ocean is almost frozen and 15 feet permanent thick ice is found due to which there are difficulties of exploring the bottom.

Asia is the largest continent in the the world covering 9% of the total geographical area of the earth and also 30% of the total land area.  This largest continent Asia supports  60% of the total population of the world. It located northern and eastern hemisphere. Asia has vast divercity in terms of culture, environment,ethnic group,historical background and aslo government types.

• Antarctica is the southernmost continent and it is in 1820 the man first set his foot in this region. It is uninhabited continent. The people living in this continent are those belonging to research groups of different countries.
  
• It is the continent that has lowest human population. The population is around 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter. This population is constituted by research teams of various countries. About 30 countries maintain about seventy research stations in Antarctica.
  

• Antarctica is the third smallest continent of the world.
  
• It was in 1820 when the human first set foot in Antarctica.
  
• Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the earth. It has animals like penguins, seals, whales and other number of species of plants and animals.
  
• Largest glacier in the world Lambert glacier is in this continent.
  

• Dakshin Gangotri is an Indian first research station established in Antarctica. It was established during third Indian expedition between 1983-84.
  
• An automatic weather recording station was set up here. The station is also used to conduct tests on radio waves in Antarctica. Other functions of the Dakshin Gangotri included observations of physical oceanography, the chemistry of the freshwater lakes around, biological traits of the land, biological traits of the water, geology, glaciology and geomagnetism of the area.
  

• Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the earth. It is the coldest, driest and windiest continent in the world.
  
• It has very low temperature throughout the year. The average annual temperature is −57 °C and temperature as cold as −93.2 °C is also recorded in this region.