Understanding Social Science

  Tip: - River courses are important and hard to learn at the same time. An effortless way to learn courses is to open a map representing the river course while you read the river course and absorb it. Note keywords related to the course. Always close your eyes and imagine the map before answering to the questions related to course of that particular river. For tributaries you can make acronyms according to your comfort.         The Peninsular Drainage System Main features:- ü The peninsular drainage system is older than that of Himalayas since the peninsular rivers have graded profiles and have almost reached their base levels. ü The Western Ghats running close to the western coast act as water divide between the large rivers draining into Bay of Bengal and the small rivulets joining the Arabian Sea. ü Most of the peninsular rivers flow from west to east; however Narmada and Tapi are exceptions. ü   The peninsular rivers lack th...

  Tip: - River courses are important and hard to learn at the same time. An effortless way to learn courses is to open a map representing the river course while you read the river course and absorb it. Note keywords related to the course. Always close your eyes and imagine the map before answering to the questions related to course of that particular river.    Himalayan drainage system:- Main features:- ü These rivers are fed by regular precipitation and melting snow from mountains/glaciers, so they are perennial in nature. ü These rivers have evolved long time back in geological history. ü They give birth to physical features such as gorges, V shaped valleys, rapids, waterfalls in their course and ox bow lakes, flood plains, braided channels and deltas at their ends. ü They shift their courses due to strong meandering tendency causing floods many a times. The Himalayan river system mainly includes – The Brahmaputra, The Indus, and The Ganga. Acronym for...