The Girnal hills is located in the Junagadh District of Gujarat. This place is a pilgrimage place for both Hindus and Jains.

• A cyclone is a low pressure system with anticlockwise winds in the Northern hemisphere.
• These storms are characterized by strong spiraling of the wind and often causes great damage to the nearby coastal areas.

There are total 7 pressure belts on earth. The name of these seven pressure belts are –

1. Equatorial Low – found between 10 degrees north to 10 degrees south latitudes.

2. North Sub Tropical High – Found between 23.5 degree to 35-degree latitudes in northern hemisphere.

3. North Sub Polar Low- Found between 45 degree to 66.5-degree latitudes in northern hemisphere.

4. North Polar High- Found between 80 degrees to 90 degrees latitudes in northern hemisphere.

5. South Sub Tropical High - Found between 23.5 degree to 35-degree latitudes in Southern hemisphere.

6. South Sub Polar Low- Found between 45 degrees to 60 degrees latitudes in Southern hemisphere.

7. South Polar High Found- between 80 degrees to 90 degrees latitudes in Southern hemisphere.

• Black Soil is most abundant is Deccan plateau region.

• It is also known as Regur Soil & it has black colour due to abundance of Iron, magnesium and aluminium.

• It is most suitable for Cotton cultivation.

• These soils are mainly found in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu.

 * Gandak River is not a Peninsular River. It is a Himalayan River, rest others are peninsular rivers.

* The peninsular rivers are the rivers that originate from the peninsular plateaus and small hills of India.

a. Mahanadi, Godawari, Krishna and Kaveri are major peninsular rivers draining into Bay of Bengal.

b. Narmada, Tapti, Mahi, Sabarmati, etc are major peninsular rivers draining into Arabian Sea.

c. Chambal, Son, Ken, Betwa, Damodar etc are major peninsular rivers draining into Ganga.

• The Purvanchal mountain ranges are located at India's eastern border with Myanmar.

• They are a sub-mountain range of the Himalayas in northeast India.

• They lie south of the Brahmaputra valley.

• Farakka Barrage Project is a barrage across the Ganges River.

• It is located in Murshidabad district in West Bengal.

• Its construction was started in 1961 and completed in 1975 at a cost of ₹156.49 crore.

• The barrage was constructed by Hindustan Construction Company.

• The Barrage serves water to the Farakka Super Thermal Power Station.