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315. Fact

Dew
Condensed atmospheric water vapours due to the cooling of the air.

316. Fact

Dry farming
Growing of crops in low rainfall areas by moisture conservation, crop rotation but without irrigation.

317. Fact

Equator
An imaginary line dividing the earth into two equal parts.

318. Fact

Equinoxes
The day on which nights and days are of equal duration, e.g., march 22 and september 23.

319. Fact

Erosion
Wearing away of the earth's land surface by rain, wind, water, etc. Rendering the land infertile.

320. Fact

Eclipse
When one earthly body obscures another one partially or completely.

321. Fact

Fog
When the atmospheric moisture touches cold earth and condenses on dust particles.

322. Fact

Frost
When the atmospheric moisture deposits in the shape of icy flakes on the exposed objects or near the ground due to below freezing point temperature.

323. Fact

High seas
The parts of the sea which do not come under the territorial jurisdiction of the nations.

324. Fact

Iceberg
Huge mass of ice separated from glacier in the polar regions. These masses of ice float in the oceans with 9 parts submerged in the ocean and one part visible.

325. Fact

Isobars
Lines on the map connecting the places of the same pressure.

326. Fact

Isotherms
Lines on the map joining the places of the same temperature.

327. Fact

Isthmus
Narrow neck of land joining two land areas.

328. Fact

Kundan
Anew variety of wheat which gives high yields in both rained and irrigated tracts and responds well to low dose of water and fertiliser.

329. Fact

Lagoon
A shallow stream of water at the mouth of a river enclosed bu dunes of river silt.

330. Fact

Light year
The distance traveled by light in one year. It is equal to 9.4*10612 km.