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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.

331. Fact
Local time
Time calculated from the sun at noon at any place of earth.

332. Fact
Meridian
Imaginary line joining north and south poles and cutting the equator at right angles.

333. Fact
Mist
It is just like fog but contain more moisture.

334. Fact
Oasis
A part of the desert where water and vegetation are found.

335. Fact
Orbit
The path of the heavenly bodies.

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