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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 zoology ecosystems decomposition in ecosystem ecosystem productivity and decomposition producers, consumers and decomposers

Which association below is not correct?

  1. Cumulus congestus - anvil top

  2. Cumulus - fair weather cumulus

  3. Altocumulus castellanus - resemble "little castles"

  4. Stratus fractus - scud
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Cumulus congestus is a towering cumulus cloud, while an 'anvil top' is characteristic of a Cumulonimbus cloud. Therefore, this association is incorrect.

Multiple choice geography punjab along the plains northern plains northern plains of india

The wind flowing in the northern plains in summers is known as _______.

  1. Koal Bisakhi

  2. Trade winds

  3. Loo

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

  • The wind flowing in the northern plains in summers is known as 'loo'.
  • Loo is a strong hot and dry winds that blows over the western Indo-Gangetic plain of North India and Pakistan.
  • It is especially strong in the months of May and June.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

Why do we feel cold during winter?

  1. Because our body temperature is higher than surrounding temperature

  2. Because our body temperature is lower than surrounding temperature

  3. It doesn't depend on our body temerature

  4. None of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

During winter, our body temperature is higher than the surrounding temperature. So heat flows from out body to the surrounding resulting in lowering the body temperature. Thus we feel cold during winter.

Multiple choice physics heat and energy causes of greenhouse effect global warming adaptation in animals

What causes wind currents across the globe?

  1. The gravitational pull of the earth

  2. Change in season

  3. Uneven heating of earth surface

  4. Gravitational pull of the sun.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Wind currents are generated across the globe due to the uneven heating of the earth surface by the sun, creating temperature and pressure differences in the atmosphere.

Multiple choice commercial applications management of natural resources unequal distribution of resources protecting our environment rules are for everyone

Thermal belts are:

  1. Pockets of warm air resting on a valley during the afternoon

  2. Pockets of cold air resting on a valley floor at night

  3. Warmer hillsides that are less likely to experience freezing conditions

  4. Cold, below-freezing air found at the top of a mountain
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Thermal belts are areas on hillsides that remain warmer than the valley floor at night, often because cold air sinks into the valley (temperature inversion), protecting the hillside from frost.

Multiple choice evs let's play with water law of constant proportion - i law of constant proportion law of definite proportions

Rainfall is related to which process?

  1. Evaporation

  2. Condensation

  3. Sublimation

  4. Heating
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A,B,D Correct answer
Explanation

The water vapor rises in the atmosphere due to heating of water by sunlight and there it cools down and forms tiny water droplets through something called condensation. When they all combine together, they grow bigger and are too heavy to stay up there in the air. This is when they will fall to the ground as rain, or maybe snow or hail by gravity.

Sublimation is not involved in rainfall process

Multiple choice geography sun: the ultimate source elements of weather and climate : temperature the atmosphere elements of weather and climate :humidity

The Earth gets heated more in the afternoon summer than at noon because of _________________.

  1. vertical rays of the Sun

  2. radiation

  3. accumulated temperature in the afternoon being greater than at noon

  4. All of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The Earth continues to absorb solar radiation even after noon. The heat accumulated throughout the day leads to the highest temperatures occurring in the afternoon rather than at the exact moment of the sun's peak intensity at noon.

Multiple choice geography sun: the ultimate source elements of weather and climate : temperature the atmosphere elements of weather and climate :humidity

The general trend of Isotherms on the globe is ________.

  1. East-West

  2. North-South

  3. North-East

  4. South-West
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Isotherms, which are lines connecting points of equal temperature, generally follow the lines of latitude, running in an East-West direction across the globe because solar heating is primarily latitudinal.

Multiple choice geography sun: the ultimate source elements of weather and climate : temperature the atmosphere elements of weather and climate :humidity

Daily weather map showing isobars is an example of _______.

  1. Choropleth map

  2. Isopleth map

  3. Chorochromatic map

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

Daily weather map showing isobars is an example of the isopleth map. Isopleth maps may use lines to show areas where elevation, temperature, rainfall, or some other quality is the same; values between lines can be interpolated.

Multiple choice evs - i the environment and us damaging the forests deforestation and afforestation protecting our environment pollution of soil degradation of land

Decreased rainfall in northern areas is due to

  1. Changes in sun

  2. Global phenomenon

  3. Deforestation in catchment areas

  4. Deforestation in evaporating area near equator
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Deforestation leads to irregular water cycle, as a result there is decreased rainfall, deforestation in catchment areas is the main resaon behind the decreased reainfall in northern region.

So, the correct option is 'Deforestation in catchment areas'.