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Climate, Weather, and Geography

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Climate, weather, and geography examine temperature variations, wind patterns, atmospheric hazards, and global climate zones. This hub addresses climographs, thunderstorm triggers, and regional climate descriptors. These concepts are essential for UPSC, SSC, and RRB general studies and geography exams.

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Climate, Weather, and Geography Questions

Multiple choice

Glaciers are found

  1. in the desert areas

  2. on high latitudes and high altitudes

  3. in hot areas

  4. in Sahara

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Glaciers require cold temperatures where snow accumulates and doesn't melt. This occurs at high latitudes near the poles and at high altitudes in mountains. Deserts and hot areas are too warm for glaciers to form.

Multiple choice

A glacier is

  1. a snow covered mountain

  2. a rock formed by molten lava

  3. a land surrounded by water

  4. a river of ice
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D Correct answer
Explanation

A glacier is a large mass of ice that forms on land and moves slowly downhill under its own weight, essentially behaving like a river of ice. The other options are incorrect: a snow-covered mountain is simply a geographic feature, rocks formed by molten lava are igneous rocks, and land surrounded by water is an island.

Multiple choice

which of the following is produced by the rapid ascent of moist air?

  1. Frost

  2. Hail

  3. Fog

  4. Snow
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Hail forms when moist air rises rapidly and cools quickly, causing water droplets to freeze before falling. This is different from frost (forms on cold surfaces), fog (near-ground cloud), or snow (gentle freezing of falling crystals). The key is the rapid ascent causing quick freezing, which is characteristic of hail formation.

Multiple choice

Name the term when water moisturizes and falls on the earth's surface.

  1. Evaporation

  2. Transpiration

  3. Condensation

  4. Precipitation
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Precipitation is the process where water vapor condenses in the atmosphere and falls to Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. It's the final stage of the water cycle, following evaporation, transpiration, and condensation.

Multiple choice

Directions: Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows it.

Early European explorers of the Tropics discovered what they misnamed a louse line. As they went closer to the equator, at some point fleas would abandon the explorers. One explanation is that the heat became too much for the fleas, which may be killed by temperatures even a few degrees higher than 98.6 Fahrenheit, the temperature of a healthy human body. The problem with this explanation is that fleas had been observed abandoning even healthy people when the air temperature in the Tropics was below 98.6 degrees.

Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the original explanation which the author doubts?

  1. Some species of fleas which occasionally feed on humans can survive at temperatures over 100 degrees.

  2. The so-called louse line was not a latitudinal line like the Tropic of Cancer, but a geographically variable point at which a specific biocritical phenomenon was observed.

  3. For those not acclimated to tropical weather, rises in air temperature cause significant increases in body temperature starting when the air temperature is as low as 85 degrees.

  4. Changes that occurred as the explorers entered the tropics triggered mechanisms in the fleas that were designed to protect the fleas from sick human hosts.

  5. Fleas generally attempt to minimize exposure to the outside elements by hiding under clothes, in hair, and in folds of skin.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

(3) THE DOUBT: Why do fleas abandon healthy people even when the air temperature in tropics was below 98.6 degrees? If we read the passage carefully, we would see that the decreased temperature and the killing of the fleas doubt upon the explanation that excessive heat kills the fleas. In order to strengthen the original explanation, we have to look for an explanation that can explain the doubt in the passage. (5) gives the best explanation while not assuming anything beyond the information, nor does it twist the facts stated.

Multiple choice

What is the speciality of Verkoyansk (Siberia)?

  1. Coldest place on earth

  2. Dustiest place on earth

  3. Hottest place on earth

  4. Windiest place on earth
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Verkhoyansk in Siberia is one of the coldest inhabited places on Earth. Temperatures regularly drop below -50C in winter, and it once reached -67.7C - tying with Oymyakon for the record lowest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. In Arctic and Antarctic circles, only one layer of cold water exists, which extends from surface to deep ocean floor. b. The rate of decrease of temperature with increasing latitude is generally 1.5oC per latitude. c. The rate of decrease in temperature according to depth is uniform throughout the ocean.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. b and c

  5. a, b and c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer as this statement is correct. This is wrong as only statement a is correct.

Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is/are correct?

a. The most widely used classification of climate is the applied climate classification scheme developed by V. Koeppen. b. Koeppen identified a close relationship between the distribution of vegetation and climate. c. Koeppen's classification is based on mean annual and mean monthly temperature and precipitation data.

  1. a only

  2. b only

  3. c only

  4. a and b

  5. b and c
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

This is the correct answer.