What Is Laila?
Laila was the first tropical cyclone of the North Indian oceanic cyclonic season in 2010. It developed in the Bay of Bengal in the middle of May, 2010 and hit the south Indian states of ...
Read MoreHow Are Rainbows Formed?
A rainbow is an optical phenomenon which happens when certain metrological conditions are met. A rainbow is a spectrum of light in the sky which is formed when sunlight falls upon the droplets of moisture ...
Read MoreWhy Are The Polar Ice Caps Melting?
What is a polar ice cap? High latitude regions of a planet or a moon which are covered with snow are called polar ice caps. In case of our own planet: the northern and the southern ...
Read MoreHow Much Water Is There On The Earth?
There is more water on this tiny little planet of ours than we could imagine. If expressed in numbers it would be something like 1,260,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters (1, 260 million trillion liters) of water! It is ...
Read MoreHow is soil formed?
The granular material that forms the upper layer of the land surface on the earth is called soil. Soil is necessary for the plants to grow. Living beings cannot live without plants as the plants ...
Read MoreHow are Valleys formed?
Valleys are wide plains or irregular areas with gradual slope between the mountains. In India, the city of Srinagar lies in one of the most beautiful valleys of the world. Do you know how valleys ...
Read MoreHow are icebergs formed?
In fact, icebergs are the broken pieces of glaciers. The glaciers get broken into big pieces of ice by tides and sea waves when they (the glaciers) slide down from the mountains and valleys and ...
Read MoreWhy does Snowfall occur?
Actually, snow is frozen water. During the winter, snow falls in the colder regions and on the mountains. It is soft and white in color. It looks like small pieces of cotton. Snowflakes have ...
Read MoreHow are Thunderstorms Formed?
A thunderstorm is a weather condition which includes strong winds, lightening, heavy rains and, of course the sound of thunder! If accompanied by hail we call it a ‘hailstorm’. Birth of a thunderstorm: It all happens on ...
Read MoreWhat Is The Source Of Moisture In The Air?
Tiny drops of water appear on the outer wall of the tumbler, when we put chilled water or ice cubes in it. Do you know from where the water drops come? Actually, these drops appear ...
Read MoreHow Is The Weather Forecast Made?
Newspapers, radio and television are the main sources through which daily we get the weather forecast. The possibility of storm, rain or thunder etc. is forecasted by the weather experts. Do you know how they get ...
Read MoreHow Is The Depth Of The Sea Measured?
Today, the man has obtained a lot of information about the seas. Yet he is unknown to many mysteries of the sea. For example, still he does not know about the time of the origin ...
Read MoreWhat Causes Ocean Currents?
We all know that the water in the ponds and lakes is static, whereas the sea water is not static. There are currents of water in the oceans also. The speed of these currents changes ...
Read MoreHow Does The Wind Blow?
We all know that air is the mixture of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, dust particles, water vapors. When the air is in motion we call it the wind. Let us study how the wind blows? When ...
Read MoreHow Do Hurricanes Form?
Meteorologists and other scientists who study weather and storms have uncovered a lot of the details about hurricanes. They know much more about how they form than they did a few years ago. But when ...
Read MoreWhat Causes An Ocean Trench?
Ocean trenches are the deepest part of the ocean floor and the part of the Earth’s surface that is closest to the center of the earth. This makes them unique and quite interesting to oceanographers, ...
Read MoreHow Do Clouds Form?
Clouds are water, though they certainly don’t look like it from down here on the earth. But they form when water on the earth’s surface evaporates (water turns from liquid to gas - from the ...
Read MoreWhat Causes Floods?
Flood is overflow of the huge amount of water onto the normally dry land. Flood occurs when the overflowing water submerges land and causes deluge. It is a cruel and violent expression of water. Floods are ...
Read MoreWhat Are Hurricanes?
A hurricane can be described as a mega storm. Some hurricanes are able to cover a total area of 600 miles. They are made up of strong winds that flow upward and inward at the ...
Read MoreWhat Causes Tornadoes?
Some violent thunderstorms, develop into tornadoes, when there is enough amount of- instability and wind shear in atmosphere (lower). Instability and wind shear- major reasons of tornadoes Instability means a situation in which extremely humid and warm ...
Read MoreWhat Causes Tides?
Major reason of the tides is the gravitational pull produced on the surface of earth by the Moon and the sun. People generally associate the tides with the oceans only, but actually the whole planet ...
Read MoreWhat Causes Monsoon?
Monsoon is actually an annual phenomenon of the weather. This phenomenon originates from the earth’s rotation in respect to the sun. Monsoon winds are annual, but it is impossible to predict their duration, quantity of ...
Read MoreWhat is Volcanic Eruption?
A volcano can be simply defined as a rupture or an opening on the crust of a planet like earth. This opening allows hot ash, molten rock and gases to blow off from the underground ...
Read MoreWhat is Earth’s Magnetism?
Magnets are one of the moist important engineering objects. They have numerous uses in diagnostics like MRI, electricity production, mechanical running of trains etc. Several types of magnets are available to us. Behind the working ...
Read MoreWhat Is Earthquake ?
Release of energy waves called seismic waves in the crust of earth, leads to the creation of a natural disaster called earthquake. Earthquakes can be recorded using an instrument called as seismometer. Richter scale is ...
Read MoreWhy is Snow White?
Snow can be termed as, “a bunch of ice crystals combined together”. Whenever we think of snow, a beautiful picture of purity and decency comes into our mind. A place covered with snow appears like ...
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