World Geography (Part-II) (Railway)

• Most important for the port of Rotterdam is the petrochemical industry and general cargo transshipment handlings.

• Thames is the longest river entirely in England and the second-longest in the United Kingdom, after the River Severn.

• Fens are a type of wetland. Fens are peat-forming wetlands that rely on groundwater Input and require thousands of years to develop and cannot easily be restored once destroyed.

• Mount Vesuvius (Italy): Cotopaxi (Ecuador) and Mount Etna (Italy) are volcanoes.

• 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur an extinct marine reptile from the Jurassic era have been discovered -in Gujarat.

• This is the first time the fossil has been found in India.

• It separates Spain on the European continent from Morocco on the African continent.

• China uses one official time zone, China Standard Time (CST), which is 8 hours ahead of UTC.

• The name comes from Greek 'bathus' meaning deep.

• Some of the sources of renewable energy include sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

• Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4.800 km) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3.320.000 square miles (8,600,000 square km): the actual area varies as the desert expands and contracts over time.

• The Sahara is bordered in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, in the north by the Atlas Mountains and Mediterranean Sea, in the east by the Red Sea, and in the south by the Sahel -a semiarid region that forms a transitional zone between the Sahara to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.