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  • These are limited and can get exhausted overtime
  • These are limited and can get exhausted overtime, what is this?
    Exhaustible
  • These are in plenty and cannot be exhausted by men, what is this?
    Inexhaustible
  • What is the meaning of afforestation?
    growing of plants in unprotected barren lands
  • What is Van Mahotsava?
    a tree plantation movement
  • What is reforestation?

    a developing forest in an area that has been damaged
  • separation of commercial forestry means?

    plants that are planted separately
  • deforestation means?
    removal of a forest
  • soil erosion is?
    removal of plants making the soil infertile
  • what is desertification?

    removal of forests which makes the area dry
  • how do floods occur?
    many temporary rivulets are formed, the rivulets produce floods i lowlands
  • destruction of wild life definition?
    taking away ones habitat
  • climate changes mean?
    the change of weather during a year
  • coal is made out of?
    fossilized rocks and large accumulation of plants compressed
  • petroleum is made out of?
    a fossil fuel from plant and animal remains
  • What is another term for "chipko movement"?

    "hug the tree"
  • Tropos means?

    change
  • what is the highest surface of the earth?
    troposhere
  • strat means?
    layers
  • what is the layer in the atmosphere that has it's own layers?
    stratosphere
  • meso means?
    middle'
  • what is the coldest layer?
    mesosphere
  • thermo means?
    heat
  • what is the layer that forms auroras seen in alaska?
    thermosphere
  • exo means?
    outside
  • what is the most outside layer?
    exosphere
  • what time does the land breeze take place?
    nighttime
  • what time does the sea breeze take place?
    morning time
  • when do summer monsoons usually take place?
    april and september
  • when do winter monsoons usually take place?
    october and march
  • what monsoon blow dry air?
    winter monsoon
  • what monsoon brings humid climate and rainfalls?
    summer monsoon
  • what is a solar eclipse?
    when the moon blocks the sunlight
  • what is a lunar eclipse?
    when the earth passes between the sun and the moon
  • what is an eclipse?
    when two celestial bodies create one