Tag: geography

B.  Haryana, Punjab, Bihar

It may be noted that agricultural prosperity does not depend as much as on the total net sown area as it does on the percentage of net sown area to the total reporting area. There are large variations in the proportion of net sown area to total reporting area from one state to another Punjab and Haryana had some of the highest proportions of 84.2 and 80.7 per cent respectively.

Large tracts of the Indo-Ganga plain in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and in coastal regions have large percentage of area sown more than once.

The water cycle also known as the hydrological cycle describes the continues movement of water on, above and below the surface of the earth. Although the balance of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time, individual water molecules can come and go, in and out of the atmosphere. In doing so, the water goes through different phase liquid, solid (ice) and gas (vapor).

A dendritic drainage pattern is the most common form and looks like the branching pattern of tree roots. It develops in regions underlain by homogeneous material. That is, the subsurface geology has a similar resistance to weathering so there is no apparent control over the direction the tributaries take.

It is a drainage pattern in which consequent streams radiate or diverge outward, like the spokes of a wheel, from a high central area; it is best developed on the slopes of a young, unbreached dome like structure or of a volcanic cone.

The Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta (also known as the Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

Temperature is a relative term implying a degree of molecular activity or heat of a substance. Temperature also refers to the degree of hotness. So temperature is used to measure how cold or hot the weather is. 

A farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest to create a field is known as ‘Slash and burn’ agriculture.  The resulting layer of ash provides the newly-cleared land with a nutrient-rich layer to help fertilize crops. It is a method of agriculture which is mainly used by tribal communities for subsistence farming. ‘Slash and burn’ agriculture is mostly practiced in central Africa, northern South America, and Southeast Asia. ‘Slash and burn’ agriculture is known as Milpa in Mexico.