Ch-8 Making The World Smaller

Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to
Cognitive :
• Understand the different means of transport and communication
• Explore the major roads connecting the country
• Know the problems with road traffic
• Differentiate between personal and mass communication

Affective:
• Understand the importance of Suez canal and Panama canal in promoting international trade
• Appreciate the value of transport and communication in bringing the people of world closer.
• To know the significance of various means of communication and transport in times of emergency
• like floods, storms

Psychomotor:
• Mark the route of Suez canal and Panama canal on world map
 Importance of Wheel

To carry the people and goods

from one place to another
Roadways
Longest Highway of India-
National Highway 44 (NH 44) is the longest -
running National Highway in India.

It is 3,745 km long and covers the North-South Corridor of

NHDP.
It starts from Srinagar in the north and ends in Kanyakumari
in the south.
Flyovers -Overpass, a high-level road bridge that
crosses over a highway interchange or
intersection.
The Channel Tunnel (often called the 'Chunnel'
for short) is an undersea tunnel linking
southern England and northern France.
Steam Engine

George Stephenson’s Rocket-

Steam Engine
First Train of India
 https://youtu.be/Tcgb_Ez-GB8

The Trans-Siberian Railway (the Moscow-Vladivostok line), spanning a length of

9,289km, is the longest and one of the busiest railway lines in the world.
 What is Transcontinental Railroad? There are some
longest railroad lines which traverse the entire
continent either east to west or north to south.
They are called transcontinental railroad or
railways.

https://youtu.be/lK0zP57jOvY
Water Transport
 Mediterranean Sea

Red Sea
Suez Canal –
Red Sea- Mediterranean Sea
Panama Canal –
Atlantic Ocean-Pacific Ocean
Importance of Water transport
Air Transport
First Glider

George Cayley
First Aeroplane
https://youtu.be/v8fkcIlA5gc

Complete Video on Tansportation