Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
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There are great reserves of Ocean waters on the earth. Around 97 percent of total water is found in the oceans and simultaneously 70 percent of the earth’s area is covered with Oceans.
World’s generally all sea’s, mountains, lakes and the snow and water emerging from the mountains, all get accumulated and meet in the oceans. In Hindu mythology Lord Vishnu has been said to be resting in the Ocean. Varun has been called as God of Oceans.
In our solar system, the oceans found on the earth are monism. No such Oceans are found on any other planet. Oceans have their own whole world filled with mysteries and diffusion. Every being of the ocean is there to create amusement in us. In spite of so many researches, yet several mysteries of the oceans remain unsolved.
Rivers and lakes are too very important to us and our environment as they provide us with fresh and clean water. Rivers flow from a number of origins. These origins can be lakes and mountains. Almost every river meets another river or ocean at the end of its journey. The river which meets the main river is called the Helper Rivers. The area from where a river passes is called its water accepting area. To maintain the level of the river and its flowing speed it is necessary to make sure that we don’t exploit the water accepting place.
Many rivers become a cause of flood in many places in the monsoon season. If the river is large then it can affect a large area. The rivers which carry a lot of top soil with them often form deltas.
Many forests grow on the banks of the rivers including a number of species. Many fishes have adapted to live in the rivers as well as the seas like the Hilsa and Salmon fishes.
From thousands of years rivers have been playing an important role in the lives of the human beings and this is the reason why many important towns and cities are located on the banks of the rivers.
We love our rivers, we pray to them but we also pollute them. We use the river water for drinking, bathing, as a means of transportation and entertainment, we also use them to generate electricity and then we throw the waste in the rivers. This is not taking advantage but in this way we are ruining our own future.
We started using rivers as a means of transportation 3300 years ago. This happened when people floated a boat for the first time in the river Indus. From that time till now we can see a number of rivers used as a means of transportation. Some of these rivers are Ganga, Nile and Mississippi Missouri.
We catch many fishes from these rivers while they also help us in irrigation. In the following book detailed information has been given about main rivers, oceans and lakes. Let’s know more about them.
Mahesh Dutt Sharma
Mahesh Sharma, a prestigious author and journalist, has written more than 1550 Hindi and English books. His book, "Mahatma Gandhi," won the M.P. Govt. Gandhi Darshan National Award in 2010. He also won Purvottar Hindi Academy, Meghalaya, Shilong Award twice, Natraj Author Award etc.. He is a freelance writer and writing is his passion.
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Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes - Mahesh Dutt Sharma
Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
By Mahesh Sharma
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Prologue
There are great reserves of Ocean waters on the earth. Around 97 percent of total water is found in the oceans and simultaneously 70 percent of the earth’s area is covered with Oceans.
World’s generally all sea’s, mountains, lakes and the snow and water emerging from the mountains, all get accumulated and meet in the oceans. In Hindu mythology Lord Vishnu has been said to be resting in the Ocean. Varun has been called as God of Oceans.
In our solar system, the oceans found on the earth are monism. No such Oceans are found on any other planet. Oceans have their own whole world filled with mysteries and diffusion. Every being of the ocean is there to create amusement in us. In spite of so many researches, yet several mysteries of the oceans remain unsolved.
Rivers and lakes are too very important to us and our environment as they provide us with fresh and clean water. Rivers flow from a number of origins. These origins can be lakes and mountains. Almost every river meets another river or ocean at the end of its journey. The river which meets the main river is called the Helper Rivers. The area from where a river passes is called its water accepting area. To maintain the level of the river and its flowing speed it is necessary to make sure that we don’t exploit the water accepting place.
Many rivers become a cause of flood in many places in the monsoon season. If the river is large then it can affect a large area. The rivers which carry a lot of top soil with them often form deltas.
Many forests grow on the banks of the rivers including a number of species. Many fishes have adapted to live in the rivers as well as the seas like the Hilsa and Salmon fishes.
From thousands of years rivers have been playing an important role in the lives of the human beings and this is the reason why many important towns and cities are located on the banks of the rivers.
We love our rivers, we pray to them but we also pollute them. We use the river water for drinking, bathing, as a means of transportation and entertainment, we also use them to generate electricity and then we throw the waste in the rivers. This is not taking advantage but in this way we are ruining our own future.
We started using rivers as a means of transportation 3300 years ago. This happened when people floated a boat for the first time in the river Indus. From that time till now we can see a number of rivers used as a means of transportation. Some of these rivers are Ganga, Nile and Mississippi Missouri.
We catch many fishes from these rivers while they also help us in irrigation. In the following book detailed information has been given about main rivers, oceans and lakes. Let’s know more about them.
-Author
Table of Contents
1. Five Major Oceans
2. Some other Oceans and Seas
3. Oceanic Layers
4. Oceanic Currents
5. Hurricanes
6. Salty Oceans
7. Life in oceans
8. Importance of Oceans
9. Oceans: Interesting Facts
10. Amazon River
11. Colorado River
12. Congo River
13. Danube River
14. Yangtze River
15. Hwang-Ho River
16. Mekong River
17. Murray River
18. Darling River
19. River Nile
20. Zambezi River
21. Lena River
22. Ob River
23. Mackenzie River
24. Amu Darya
25. Indus River
26. Ganga River
27. Brahmaputra River
28. Narmada River
29. World’s major Sea’s and countries related to Rivers
30. Our Lakes
31. Caspian Sea Lake
32. Lake Victoria
33. Great Slave Lake
34. Lake Malawi
35. Dead Sea Lake
36. Great Bear Lake
37. Tanganyika Lake
38. Lake Titicaca
39. Lake Assal
40. Dale Lake
41. Superior Lake
42. Pushkar Lake
43. Chilka Lake
44. Bhimtal Lake
45. Vembanad Lake
46. Lake Baikal
47. Interesting Facts about Rivers and Lakes
1. Five Major Oceans
Oceans affect the environment of the earth in depth. They especially affect the temperature and climate. It sucks the solar radiation thereby balancing the temperature of the earth. This solar radiation gets collected in the oceans in the form of calorie energy, to whom they always keep on distributing among the unsteady oceanic waves in the atmosphere, with this process the earth and the wind remains warm in winters and cold in summers.
It is very interesting to know that all the oceans are interlinked with each other. Presently are five major