IAS 2007

Important geographical facts for IAS(PRE.)2007
1.The Limpopo river in Africa cuts tropic of Capricorn twice.
2.Zaire or Cango river cuts equator twice. So it has two seasonal maxima.
3. Brazil has largest reserve of Iron Ore.
4.Amazon river has basin area 70 lakh square kilometer,more than 1100.tributaries,20 percent running water.
5.Murray Darling Basin formed by the Australia,s largest river system Murray and its tributary Darling.basin has area 910000 square kilometer.it is west of Great Dividing range.rivers are torrential in nature and subject to prolonged dry and sudden full periods.
6.Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) is the offshore zone claimed by signatories to the 1982 United Nations Drafts Conventions on the law of sea.the EEZ extends 200 nautical miles or 370 km from a contiguous shoreline.
7..Lichens are plants in which algae and fungi live together (in a symbiotic relationship) to create a single structure.They typically from tough , leathery coating or crusts attached to rocks and tree trunks.
8.Jharia situated in Dhanbad district .it is recognized as storehouse of the best metallergical coal in India.
9.Dhuan Dhar or Clouds of mist falls is located on Narmada River.it flows through a rift valley between the Vidhyas and the Satpura Range.it makes estuary in the Gulf of Khambhat.
10.Loess is a wind blown deposit of fine slit and dust.It is unstratified,non-indurated , calcareous, permeable,homogeneous and generally yellowish in colour.The dust particles of loess are so small that they hold together even when dry and once deposited cannot be easily lifted by wind.The largest known loess deposit is in china..