Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct? a. During the night in the mountainous regions the slopes get cooled and the dense air descends into the valley as the katabatic wind. b. The cool air of the high plateaus and ice fields draining into the valley is called the adiabatic wind. c. During the day the slopes get heated up and air moves upslope to fill the resulting gap, this is called the valley breeze.

  1. Only a

  2. Only b

  3. Only c

  4. Only a and b

  5. All of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

This statement is correct. In mountainous regions, during the day the slopes get heated up and air moves upslope and to fill the resulting gap the air from the valley blows up the valley. This wind is known as the valley breeze.

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