World Geography (Part-II) (Railway)

• The Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in the service of the Russian Empire.

• The administrative capital of South Africa is Pretoria.

• Pretoria was the capital of Apartheid South Africa and is situated in the northern province of Gauteng.

• He was the first to theorize that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by an expanding universe, which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.

• The Yellow River is often called the cradle of Chinese civilization.

• Late summer (January-March) ozone amounts show no such sharp decline in the 1980s and 1990s.

• The density of the Exosphere is just a fraction of at sea level. And its mass is only 0.002% of the total mass of the atmosphere because gas molecules are far apart in the Exosphere.

• Sound waves can't travel through this layer of the atmosphere.

• Air, water, lakes, the soils, minerals are all natural resources.

• Many of these resources are free gifts of nature and can be used directly.

• Biomes from Arctic Circle to Equator are Tundra, Taiga, Temperate Forests and Tropical Rainforests.

• Ethiopia was historically called Abyssinia, derived from the Arabic form of the Ethiosemitic name 'HBST", modern Habesha.

• The moist deciduous forests are widespread in the regions which record rainfall between 100-200 cm. Teak, Sal, Rosewood, Mahua, Gooseberry, and sandalwood etc. are the main species of these forests.