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Multiple choice evs weather, climate and adaptation of animals to different climates climate and weather weather, climate and adaptations of animals to climate atmosphere and its components

During summer, if you go near the lake, you feel relief from the heat, why?

  1. With no pressure over the lake and low pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  2. With high pressure over the lake and low pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  3. With no pressure over the lake and high pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.

  4. With high pressure over the lake and zero pressure over land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

During summer, there occurs differential heating of the land and the water body near the land. The land mass is heated up quickly and the air over the land rises up, creating low pressure over the land. The water body takes time in getting heated up and so during the day, the water body has higher pressure due to heavy air than the land mass. Due to the pressure difference, the wind blows from the high pressure (water body) to the low pressure (land mass). These are called the sea-breeze. These winds are colder and that's why relief is felt near the lake on a hot summer day.

Hence, the correct answer is 'with high pressure over the lake and low pressure over the land, the regional pressure gradient pushes cool winds towards the land'.

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Assertion : The crown fires are most destructive as they burn the tree top.

Reason : Due to crown fire the temperature of that area may rise upto 700oC.

  1. If both the assertion and the reason are true and the reason is a correct explanation of the assertion

  2. If both the assertion and reason are true but the reason is not a correct explanation of the assertion

  3. If the assertion is true but the reason is false

  4. If both the assertion and reason are false

  5. If the assertion is false but reason is true
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Crown files are most destructive. These destroy the canopies of trees and entire vegetational cover of that particular area. Due to this fire, the temperature, rises upto 700()oC and may adversely effect the nearly vegetation.

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Stratus clouds are typically puffy and form by convection.

  1. True

  2. False
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Stratus clouds are characterized by their uniform, layered appearance and typically form through widespread lifting or cooling, not through localized convection (which produces puffy cumulus clouds).

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When a liquid thermometer is held in direct sunlight,

  1. It will accurately measure the air temperature

  2. It will measure a much higher temperature than that of the air

  3. It will measure a much lower temperature than that of the air

  4. It will measure the temperature of the sun rather than the air
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When a thermometer is in direct sunlight, it absorbs solar radiation, causing the liquid inside to expand more than it would from the air temperature alone, leading to an artificially high reading.

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A change of one degree on the Celsius scale is _____________ a change of one degree on the Fahrenheit scale.

  1. Equal to

  2. Larger than

  3. Smaller than

  4. Is in the opposite direction of
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A change of 1 degree Celsius is equivalent to a change of 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. Therefore, a 1-degree change on the Celsius scale is larger than a 1-degree change on the Fahrenheit scale.

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The atmosphere near the earth's surface is "heated from below." Which of the following does not significantly contribute to this heating?

  1. Conduction of heat upward from a hot surface

  2. Convection from a hot surface

  3. Absorption of infrared energy that has been radiated from the surface

  4. Heat energy from the earth's interior
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The atmosphere is primarily heated from the surface upward via conduction, convection, and radiation. Heat from the Earth's interior (geothermal heat) is negligible compared to solar heating at the surface.

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As the air temperature increases, with no addition of water vapor to the air, the relative humidity will:

  1. Remain the same

  2. Increase

  3. Decrease

  4. Increase until it becomes equal to the dew point temperature
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Relative humidity is inversely related to temperature when the amount of water vapor is constant. As temperature increases, the capacity of the air to hold water vapor increases, so the ratio (relative humidity) decreases.

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Which of the following will increase in a rising parcel of air?

  1. Saturation vapor pressure

  2. Relative humidity

  3. Mixing ratio

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

As a parcel of air rises, it expands and cools due to decreasing atmospheric pressure. Because the capacity of air to hold water vapor decreases as temperature drops, the relative humidity increases.