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Four Types of Economic Activities

Economic geography deals with the spatial variations on the surface of the earth of activities related to production, exchange and consumption of goods and services. All the economic...

April 4, 2016

List of Major Tribes of the World

Aborigines The term Aborigines is used to refer native people of a particular region but specifically this term denotes the original natives of Australia. They are negroid people...

April 4, 2016

Key Features of Human Races

Human race refers to a group of people with certain features in common that distinguish them from other groups of people. There are various systems of classifications of...

April 4, 2016

Secondary Sector

The secondary sector of the economy is involved in the production of finished goods. All manufacturing, processing and construction activities lie in this sector. Some of the activities...

April 4, 2016

Solar and Lunar Eclipse

An eclipse is the partial or total blocking of the light of one object by another.  In the solar system, relative positions of the Sun, Moon, and Earth...

April 3, 2016

Latitudes and Longitudes

Eratosthenes was the first person to calculate the size of the earth. He realized that Earth could be located with a basic grid of lines called Longitudes and...

April 3, 2016

Earth’s Revolution: Equinox, Solstice, Seasons, Perihelion and Aphelion

The orbit of the Earth is the motion of the Earth around the Sun every 365.242199 mean solar days. The orbital speed of Earth around the Sun averages...

April 3, 2016

{Geography} Earth’s Rotation and Solar Day

Earth rotates around its own axis from west to east. When seen from the North Star Polaris {Alpha Ursae Minoris}, Earth turns counter-clockwise. Rotation of Earth results in...

April 3, 2016

Primary Activities: Gathering, Nomadic Herding, Intensive Farming

Human activities which generate income are known as economic activities. Economic activities are broadly grouped into primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary activities. Primary activities are directly dependent on...

April 3, 2016

Migration Theory and Factors in Geography

Migration, fertility and mortality are the basic fundamental elements determining population growth and demographic structure of a country. Migration may be international, intra-national, interregional, intra-urban, rural-to-urban, , and...

April 3, 2016

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