“The temperature decreases from south to the north. The average temperature of Chennai, on the eastern coast, is between 24° - 25° Celsius,.”Why?
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In some places temperature between day and night
temperature differs. In the Thar Desert, it rise to 50°C,
in day and drop down to near 15°C in night. But in the
Andaman and Nicobar islands or in Kerala, there is no
much difference in day and night temperatures.
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TRANSCRIPT OF NCERT BOOK -CONTEMPORARY INDIA PART I - CLASS IX
CONTENT
Chapter 1 India Size and Location Chapter 2 Physical Features of India
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7-16
Chapter 3 Drainage
17-25
Chapter 4 Climate
26-41
Chapter 5 Natural Vegetation and Wild Life
42-51
Chapter 6 Population
53-60
Glossary
61-62
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INDIA SIZE
AND
LOCATION
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ndia is one of the ancient civilisations in the world. It has achieved multi-faceted socioeconomic progress during the last five decades. It has moved forward displaying remarkable progress in the field of agriculture, industry, technology and overall economic development. India has also contributed significantly to the making of world history.
The Tropic of Cancer (23 30'N) divides the country into almost two equal parts. To the southeast and southwest of the mainland, lie the Andaman and Nicobar islands and the Lakshadweep islands in Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea respectively. Find out the extent of these groups of islands from your atlas. The southernmost point of the Indian Union Indira Point got submerged under the sea water in 2004 during the Tsunami.
LOCATIONIndia is a vast country. Lying entirely in the Northern hemisphere (Figure 1.1) the main land extends between latitudes 84'N and 376'N and longitudes 687'E and 9725'E.180W 150 120 90 60 30W 0
SIZEThe land mass of India has an area of 3.28 million square km. Indias total area accounts for about 2.4 per cent of the total geographical30E 60 90 120 150 180E 75N 60
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ATLANTIC OCEAN South America
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PACIFIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN Australia
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Figure 1.1 : India in the World
area of the world. From the Figure 1.2 it is clear that India is the seventh largest country of the world. India has a land boundary of about 15,200 km and the total length of the coast line of the mainland including Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep is 7,516.6 km. India is bounded by the young fold mountains in the northwest, north and north east. South of about 22 north latitude, it begins to taper, and extends towards the Indian Ocean, dividing it into two seas, the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on its east. Look at Figure 1.3 and note that the latitudinal and longitudinal extent of the mainland is about 30. Despite this fact the east-west extent appears to be smaller than the north-south extent. From Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh there is a time lag of two hours. Hence, time along the Standard Meridian of India (8230'E) passing through Mirzapur (in Uttar Pradesh) is taken as the standard time for the whole country. The latitudinal extent influences the duration of the day and night, as one moves from south to north.