The Earth Our Habitat NCERT-Class-6-Geography

by NCERT

(a) The sun is considered the “head” of the solar system. It is a star, although it is smaller and less bright than most other stars. It is a huge celestial body made up of extremely hot gases. It provides heat and light for the whole of the solar system. Life on earth depends on many factors, and sunlight is one of them. The sun is about 150 million kilometres away from earth.
(b) The moon is the only natural satellite of our planet earth. Its diameter is just about a quarter of the earth’s diameter. It is comparatively closer (3,84,400 kilometres away) to earth than all other celestial bodies. It does not support life. It revolves around the earth and rotates about its own axis in about the same time, due to which only one side of the moon is visible to us.
(c) Galaxy is a term that refers to billions of stars, clouds of dust and gases, and other celestial bodies considered as a single unit. The only bigger unit is the universe, galaxies make up the universe. The galaxy we live in is called the Milky Way.

Genres: Geography, Academic

Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2017

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Reviews

[Naveen N. Bhat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Started with NCERT all over again. Just for laughs.

[Nightingale Pages · Rating 4 out of 5]

Feels very glad to read this book
Recalled all memories of std 6 of school , when I used to confuse with winter and summer solstice . Today all seems just a piece of cake . Is it ?

[Firosh Raja · Rating 4 out of 5]

basics of geography of India can be understand easily...

[Ananth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Geography

[Consyash · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basics of Geography With regarding to India
A must read for one who want to know about earth.

[Vineeta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well explained topics on earth and its systems.

[Rashmita Nanda]

It's an amazing book for learning the basics of geography.