Tag: geography

1. Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is the largest freshwater body in Africa and the second largest in the world, smaller only than Lake Superior, which is one of North America\'s Great Lakes.

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'The highest African mountain is Kilimanjaro, which has three peaks, named Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, of which Kibo is the tallest.'

Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were the second generation of the Salyut programme which was the first space station programme undertaken by the Soviet Union. They both were built with two docking ports, one on either end of the station.

The space station launched are broadly classified into two types: 

1. Monolithic : earlier space station, Salyut and Skylab in which were constructed and launched in one piece, and then manned by a crew later. 
2. Modular: Mir and ISS, a core unit was launched, and additional modules, generally with a specific role, were later added to that.

Salyut and Skylab were built monolithic meaning that they were constructed and launched in one piece, and then manned by a crew later. 

Space stations are made to conduct experiments that needs to be done out in space. It is used to study the effects of long-duration space flight on human body. These provides a platform for greater number and length of scientific studies than it is available on other space vehicles and other military and civilian purposes.

A trophic level is the specific position an organism occupies in a food chain or food web, based on its feeding source.

'Industrialise or Perish' was the motto of Visveswaraiah.

Factors Influencing the Location of Industries : Geographical and Non-Geographical Factors! Many important geographical factors involved in the location of individual industries are of relative significance, e.g., availability of raw materials, power resources, water, labour, markets and the transport facilities.

Industrial inertia is the factor irrelevant to the location of industries. Industrial inertia (geographical) describes a stage at which an industry prefers to run in its former location although the main alluring factors are gone. For example, the raw material source is depleted or an energy crisis has emerged.