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🔆 Canada 📍 Why in News? ✅ India and Canada launched the Trade and Investment Forum, aimed at strengthening commercial partnerships, business engagement, and economic cooperation between the two countries. 📍 Political Features ✅ Capital: Ottawa ✅ Located in the northern half of North America. ✅ Bordered by: • Atlantic Ocean (East) • Pacific Ocean (West) • Arctic Ocean (North) ✅ Shares the world’s longest international land border with the United States. ✅ Has maritime borders with: • France (Saint Pierre and Miquelon) • Denmark (Greenland) 📍 Geographical Features ✅ World’s second-largest country after Russia. ✅ Diverse landscapes include: • Arctic Tundra • Boreal Forests • Rocky Mountains • Fertile Prairies ✅ Possesses nearly 20% of the world’s freshwater reserves through its lakes and rivers. 📍 Great Lakes ✅ The Great Lakes form a natural boundary between Canada and the United States. ✅ Five Great Lakes: • Superior • Michigan • Huron • Ontario • Erie ✅ Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake located entirely within the United States. 📍 Quick Facts ✅ Official Languages: English and French ✅ Currency: Canadian Dollar (CAD) ✅ Government: Federal Parliamentary Democracy & Constitutional Monarchy ✅ National Animal: Beaver 📍 Importance for India ✅ Key partner in: • Trade & Investment • Education • Clean Energy • Critical Minerals • Technology Cooperation

Pm SVANidhi from survival to self Reliance

Non performing assist (npa)

Sarthak PDS

Yamuna river

Pm E drive scheme

After provisional answer key, if you feel you are on the borderline of the cutoff and have sufficient proof regarding doubtful questions (either in GS or CSAT) you should file representations for the questions you genuinely find questionable. Sometimes, even a small correction can make a significant difference for you. Best wishes 🙏🙏

Climate zones of the world - handwritten map

🔆 Effects of Ocean Currents 📍 Climate Control ✅ Warm currents raise temperatures; cold ones cool them. ➡️ Example: North Atlantic Drift warms England; Canary cools Spain. 📍 Rainfall & Deserts ✅ Warm currents → more rainfall. ✅ Cold currents → desert formation. ➡️ Example: Cold Humboldt Current causes the Atacama Desert. 📍 Fishing Zones ✅ Convergence of warm & cold currents supports plankton → rich fish stocks. ➡️ Example: Grand Banks of Newfoundland. 📍 Navigation ✅ Currents aid efficient maritime travel by influencing shipping lanes. 📍 Temperature Moderation ✅ Currents redistribute heat and stabilize coastal climates. ➡️ Example: England remains mild due to warm currents.

🔆 Global Ocean Heat Content (OHC) – Climate Indicator 📍 Definition: Total heat absorbed & stored in oceans, measured at various depths. ✅ Key Facts • Oceans absorb 90% of excess global heat. • Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans warm faster than global average. • Since 1980s, OHC has doubled/tripled (2023 study). ✅ Significance • Drives sea level rise, alters weather, disrupts ecosystems, and strengthens cyclones. • A stable climate change indicator beyond surface temperatures.

🔆 Important Deserts 📍 Subtropical Hot Deserts 📍 Great Victoria Desert ✅ Largest Australian Desert ✅ Contains many sand dunes and salt lakes 📍 Great Sandy Desert ✅ Passes through the Pilbara region ✅ An ephemeral river, Rudall, flows through here 📍 Gibson Desert 📍 Simpson Desert 📍 Tanami Desert

🔷SEAFLOOR SPREADING 🔹 Proposed by: Harry Hess in the early 1960s 🔹 Meaning: ✅ Seafloor spreading is a geological process at oceanic ridges where new crust forms and spreads apart. ✅ It occurs continuously along mid-oceanic ridges (underwater mountain chains). 🔹 Process of Sea-Spreading: ✅ Mid-oceanic ridges are divergent plate boundaries, where tectonic plates move apart. 🔷 Process Explained Step-by-Step 1️⃣ As the plates separate, magma from the asthenosphere rises due to mantle convection. 2️⃣ Magma cools and solidifies on contact with seawater, forming new oceanic crust. 3️⃣ This creates symmetrical magnetic patterns (magnetic anomalies) on both sides of the ridge due to Earth’s magnetic field.