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question_answer1) What is Climate?
question_answer2) What does 'weather' mean?
question_answer3) What are the elements of weather and climate?
question_answer4) What is the climate of India?
question_answer5) What is the variation of temperature in India?
question_answer6) What is the variation of annual precipitation in India?
question_answer7) Define the term 'Monsoon'.
question_answer8) Why air temperature decreases from equator to polar?
question_answer9) Why hills are cooler during summer and people prefer to go to hill stations?
question_answer10) What does the term 'Sentimentality' mean?
question_answer11) Which tropic passes just from the centre of India?
question_answer12) Which surface winds are blowing from India?
question_answer13) What is Coriolis force?
question_answer14) What do you know about 'South-Western Monsoon winds?
question_answer15) What are Jet Streams?
question_answer16) What are subtropical westerly Jet streams?
question_answer17) In which parts of India subtropical westerly Jet streams blow?
question_answer18) What are tropical easterly Jet streams?
question_answer19) What are Western cyclonic disturbances?
question_answer20) When does tropical cyclone occur in India?
question_answer21) Who noticed the phenomena of the monsoons in India?
question_answer22) How differential heating and cooling of land and water help in understanding mechanism of monsoon?
question_answer23) What do you understand by ITCZ?
question_answer24) How does the presence of high pressure in the east of Madagascar affect the Indian monsoon?
question_answer25) What do you understand by the term SO?
question_answer26) What is El Nino?
question_answer27) What does ENSO Mean?
question_answer28) What do you mean by 'Burst of Monsoon'?
question_answer29) Name the two branches of South-West Monsoons of India.
question_answer30) Name the four main seasons of India.
question_answer31) When do we experience cold weather season in India?
question_answer32) What is the average temperature of North India and Coastal plains during winter?
question_answer33) Why winters in India experience dry season?
question_answer34) What is 'Mahawat'?
question_answer35) In which months do we experience the hot weather season?
question_answer36) In which regions of India does 'Elongated low Pressure Area' develop?
question_answer37) What is 'Loo'?
question_answer38) What is the effect of 'Dust storms' in India during summers?
question_answer39) What is 'Kaal Baisakhi'?
question_answer40) What are 'Mango-Showers'?
question_answer41) Which region of India receives the highest rainfall in the world?
question_answer42) What does 'breaks in rainfall' mean?
question_answer43) How do heavy floods occur during monsoons?
question_answer44) How is monsoon known for its uncertainty?
question_answer45) What is 'October Heat'?
question_answer46) Differentiate between climate and weather.
question_answer47) What type of climate does India have?
question_answer48) Why does India have a monsoon type of climate?
question_answer49) How does the latitude affect India's climate?
question_answer50) How does altitude affect the climate of India?
question_answer51) What is the coriolis force? Describe its effect briefly on the world climate.
question_answer52) What are western cyclonic disturbances?
question_answer53) What are Tropical cyclones?
question_answer54) Give a brief note on the 'Inter Tropical Convergence Zone'.
question_answer55) Define Kaal Baisakhi and Mango Showers.
question_answer56) How is monsoon known for its uncertainties?
question_answer57) What do you understand by October Heat?
question_answer58) Why are Thiruvananthapuram and Shillong rainier in June?
question_answer59) Why is July rainier in Mumbai than in Thiruvananthapuram?
question_answer60) Why are South West (S.W.) monsoons less rainy in Chennai?
question_answer61) Why is Shillong rainier than Kolkata?
question_answer62) How does Delhi receive more rainfall than Jodhpur?
question_answer63) Why has Leh moderate precipitation almost throughout the year?
question_answer64) What are the variations in Indian temperature?
question_answer65) What are the variations in precipitation in India?
question_answer66) What are the six major controls of the climate of the world?
question_answer67) State how the pressure and wind conditions over India are unique.
question_answer68) What are jet streams? How do they affect the climate?
question_answer69) State the factors which help us understand the mechanism of monsoon. Or Discuss the mechanism of monsoons.
question_answer70) What do you understand by the phenomenon of ENSO?
question_answer71) What do you know about the onset of monsoon in India?
question_answer72) How does the process of withdrawal of monsoon take place in India?
question_answer73) State the chief characteristics of the cold weather season in India.
question_answer74) What is the role of western disturbances' in the Indian climate?
question_answer75) State the chief characteristics of the hot weather season in India.
question_answer76) Give a brief account of how monsoons advance into India.
question_answer77) What do you understand by the phenomenon of 'breaks in the rainfall'?
question_answer78) Give a brief account of the condition and characteristics of the retreating monsoons.
question_answer79) What is the distribution of rainfall in India?
question_answer80) Why do the north-east trade winds change their direction while blowing through the Ganga valley?
question_answer81) Why is monsoon considered a unifying bond?
question_answer82) Differentiate between South West (S.W.) monsoons and North East (N.E.) monsoons.
question_answer83) Why are the deltas of the Krishna, Kaveri and Godavari frequently struck by cyclones?
question_answer84) Which part of India experiences the highest diurnal range of temperature and why?
question_answer85) Why does the rainfall decrease from east to the west in northern India?
question_answer86) Give reasons why parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and the leeward side of the Western Ghats are drought prone.
question_answer87) Have you heard of onset of monsoons? How does it take place in India?
question_answer88) If you are living in North India, how would you experience cold weather season over there?
question_answer89) The word 'monsoon' is derived from the Arabic word (a) Mausam (b) Mausim (c) Monsoon (d) Mausin
question_answer90) The 'coriolis force' is caused by (a) the earth's rotation (b) wind movements (c) jet streams (d) cyclonic disturbances
question_answer91) The term ENSO is referred to (a) El Nino Southern Onset (b) El Nino Southern Oscillations (c) En Nino Southern Oscillation (d) none of these
question_answer92) Tropical cyclones are often very destructive and arrive on the coasts of (a) Karnataka and Goa (b) Odisha and West Bengal (c) Maharashtra and Gujarat (d) Kerala arid Maharashtra;
question_answer93) In which of the following places in India, does precipitation take place in the form of snowfall? (a) Drass (b) Chandigarh (c) Shillong (d) Thiruvananthapuram
question_answer94) Which one of the following is called pre-monsoon showers in Kerala? (a) Kaal Baisakhi (b) South-west monsoons (c) Mango showers (d) None of these
question_answer95) Which force is responsible for the deflection of wind from its normal path?
question_answer96) What are the characteristic features of a tropical monsoon climate?
question_answer97) What are the controls affecting the climate of India?
question_answer98) How will you define climate?
question_answer99) Which town out of Jaisalmer, Leh, Shillong and Thiruvananthapuram will be the hottest during daytime in June?
question_answer100) Why does Nasik receive much less rainfall than Mumbai?
question_answer101) Why does India have a monsoon type of climate?
question_answer102) Which winds account for rainfall along the Malabar Coast?
question_answer103) Define monsoons.
question_answer104) What do you understand by 'break' in monsoon?
question_answer105) What is the effect of the presence of El Nino in the Western Pacific Ocean?
question_answer106) The heavy rainfall on the Coromandel coast is due to which weather phenomenon?
question_answer107) Which factor is responsible for the Indian sub-continent having milder winters when compared to locations in Central Asia?
question_answer108) Out the towns/cities of Bhuj, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram and Shillong, where will the monsoon arrive last?
question_answer109) Is it correct that the maximum rainfall in the winter season in India occurs in Meghalaya?
question_answer110) Is it true that the monsoon winds are regular in arrival over India?
question_answer111) Which season in Northern India has the characteristics of low humidity, weak winds and low temperature?
question_answer112) The phenomenon of the monsoon is experienced in which range of latitudes?
question_answer113) In which season does the heat belt shift Northwards?
question_answer114) In which season does the rainfall in Ganga valley reduce from East to West?
question_answer115) The phenomenon of 'October Heat' is characteristic feature of which season?
question_answer116) Why is the unifying influence of the monsoon on the Indian sub-continent quite perceptible?
question_answer117) What is the duration of the monsoon season in Western Rajasthan?
question_answer118) Which city out of Chennai, Guwahati, Jodhpur and Mumbai has the minimum rain?
question_answer119) Why does Thiruvananthapuram have an equable climate?
question_answer120) Which feature of the Indian sub-continent does not allow the South-West monsoon winds to escape from India?
question_answer121) Which area receives the highest rainfall in the world?
question_answer122) In which season, loo is experienced over the 'Northern Plains'?
question_answer123) What is the cause of rainfall during winters in the North-Western part of India?
question_answer124) How is the climate of India governed by the atmospheric condition? Explain with three suitable examples.
question_answer125) Write any four characteristics of Arabian Sea branch of South-West monsoons?
question_answer126) What is the ITCZ? What is its significance?
question_answer127) Mention any three characteristics of the Indian Monsoon.
question_answer128) "Location and relief are important factors in determining the climate of India'' Explain the statement with examples.
question_answer129) Why is the distribution of rainfall in India not uniform? Explain any three reasons.
question_answer130) What are Western disturbances? How do they affect the climate of India?
question_answer131) How does the change in pressure conditions over the Southern oceans affect the monsoons?
question_answer132) What are jet streams and how do they affect the climate of India?
question_answer133) Why are the delta regions of Eastern India struck by cyclones?
question_answer134) How do the following factors influence the climate of India? (a) Latitude (b) Altitude (c) Distance from the sea
question_answer135) Why is monsoon considered as a unifying bond?
question_answer136) Explain, what is monsoon? Name the two branches of monsoon and explain any one.
question_answer137) Which part of India experiences the highest diurnal range of temperature and why?
question_answer138) What is TI Nino? Explain any two features of it.
question_answer139) Differentiate between the cold weather season and the hot weather season in India by explaining two distinctive features of each.
question_answer140) Why North-West India receives rainfall in winter? Give any three reasons.
question_answer141) How is the Arabian Sea branch of South-West monsoons responsible for good rainfall in Northern Plains of India? Why doesn't it give rain in Central Peninsula?
question_answer142) Define burst of monsoons. Give an account of the climatic conditions of the cold weather season in India,
question_answer143) Why are South-West monsoons less rainy in Tamil Nadu? Explain.
question_answer144) The climate of India is described as the 'monsoon type'. In Asia, this type of climate is found mainly in the South and the South-East. Despite an overall unity in the general pattern, there are perceptible regional variations in climatic conditions within the country. Temperature and precipitation are two important elements and they vary from place to place and season to season. Read the above passage and answer the following questions (a) How can you say that the climate of India is a Monsoon type? (b) What lesson/values have you learnt from the given passage?
question_answer145) Define 'Kal Baisakhi' and 'Loo'. In which parts of India are they experienced? Or Define Kaal Baishakhi, Mango Showers and Loo.
question_answer146) Why do the Western Ghats receive more rainfall than the Eastern Ghats? Explain briefly.
question_answer147) "Indian monsoon is said to be a unifying bond for the people of the country." Suppose the monsoon is disturbed for a prolonged period of time. What do you think, how will it affect the country?
question_answer148) Why the houses in Rajasthan have thick walls and flat roofs?
question_answer149) Why is it that the houses in the Tarai region and in Goa and Mangalore have sloping roofs?
question_answer150) Explain any four features of advancing monsoon with reference to India.
question_answer151) Where in Mawsynram located? Why does Mawsynram receive the highest amount of rainfall?
question_answer152) Why is it said that "Monsoon wind is known for its uncertainties"? Explain any three reasons.
question_answer153) Distinguish between the South-West Monsoon and North-East Monsoon.
question_answer154) Study the following climatic data and answer the questions that follow. Months Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Temperature in 14.4 16.7 23.3 30.0 33.2 33.3 30.0 29.4 28.9 25.6 19.4 15.6 Rainfall in (cm) 2.5 1.5 1.3 1.0 1.8 7.4 19.3 17.8 11.9 1.3 0.2 1.0 (a) Name the rainiest month of the year. How much is the rainfall in this month? (b) What is the annual range of temperature here? (c) Name the hottest month and write the temperature.
question_answer155) "You have visited a place as a leader of your school team. The Principal has asked you to make a report on the climate of the placed To conclude about the climate which factros would you take into consideration?
question_answer156) Study the climate data of a station given below and answer the following questions. Months Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Temperature in 20.5 22.7 25.2 22.1 26.7 24.2 23.0 23.0 23.1 22.9 10.9 20.2 Rainfall in (cm) 7 9 11 45 106 21 111 137 164 159 61 13 (a) Calculate the annual range of temperature of this station. (b) Which month receives less rainfall and how much?
question_answer157) Why houses in Assam are built on stilts?
question_answer158) Why most of the world's deserts are located in the western margins of continents in the subtropics?
question_answer159) A recent newspaper report states deficient rains have not only taken a toll on fruit and agriculture crops, but lesser water in the streams has impacted fish breeding also, forcing the authorities to extend the no fishing ban for another fifteen days. Being the only source of livelihood for about 4000 fishermen families, the spokesman said that rains were essential for inducement of fish breeding and a further delay in monsoon would likely result in failure of breeding. Each year during fish breeding season, the State Government bans fishing activity by announcing close season across the state so that spawning and breeding are not affected during this time'. Although the government has taken one step to preserve the livelihood of the fishermen, it is still not enough. Read the above passage and answer the following questions Can you suggest what other steps could have been taken to help the fishermen, including steps before the beginning of the monsoon season? What values have you learnt from this report?
question_answer160) A recent newspaper report highlighted the following information Expressing inability to spare more water. Chief Minister of Karnataka said the state was not in a position to meet Tamil Nadu's demand, as a severe drought, a weak (South-West) monsoon and deficit rainfall in the catchment areas of the river basin have led to drastic fall in the rain-fed reservoirs. We need to look at our requirement before sharing water with Tamil Nadu. As we need water for our farmers, we can not give more to Tamil Nadu; he said. Read the above passage and answer the following questions The above report shows India's dependence on the monsoon. Do you think the Chief Minister was correct in not releasing water for Tamil Nadu What should the states do in the long-term to be less dependent on a good monsoon and thus prevent disputes? (b)What values have you learnt from this newspaper report?
question_answer161) 3Why does the rainfall decrease from the East to the West in Northern India?
question_answer162) Give an account of weather conditions and characteristics of the cold season.
question_answer163) Give reasons as to why seasonal reversal of wind direction takes place over the Indian sub-continent. the bulk of rainfall in India is concentrated over a few months. the Tamil Nadu coast receives winter rainfall. the delta region of the Eastern coast is frequently struck by cyclones. parts of Rajasthan, Gujarat and the leeward side of the Western Ghats are drought-prone.
question_answer164) Give the characteristics and effects of the monsoon rainfall in India, If there is too much rain, it causes floods and havoc all around. On the other hand, insufficient rain in a year or over some years results in drought, famine, food-insecurity, starvation and even deaths. This types of question will not he asked in the examination. Only two or three sub-parts will be asked.
question_answer165) Describe the climatic conditions of India during retreating monsoon. Or Describe any three main features of retreating monsoon.
question_answer166) Describe the regional variations in the climatic conditions of India with the help of suitable examples.
question_answer167) Discuss the mechanism of monsoons.
question_answer168) "India has diverse climatic conditions". Explain by giving two examples each of temperature and precipitation. Or "India has diverse climatic conditions." Support this statement by giving three examples. Or Describe the regional variation in climate conditions of India with the help of suitable examples.
question_answer169) "The monsoon is considered a unifying bond in India". What moral values you could inculcate from this statement?
question_answer170) Some terms related to the climate of India are given below. Classify them into the season which they fall (Winter, Summer, Advancing Monsoon and Retreating Monsoon). Burst of Monsoon Snow Loo Mahawat Tropical cyclone Kaal Baisakhi Mango Showers Western cyclonic disturbance Break in monsoon North-East trade winds Low pressure monsoon trough October Heat
question_answer171) Why does most of Tamil Nadu not get much rain from the South-West monsoon during the period June-September?
question_answer172) Choose the correct answer from the four alternatives given below (i) Which one of the following places receives the highest rainfall in the world? (a) Silchar (b) Mawsynram (c) Cherrapunji (d) Guwahati
question_answer173) (ii) The wind blowing in the Northern plains in summers is known as (a) Kaal Baisakhi ( b) Loo (c) Trade Winds (d) None of these
question_answer174) (iii) Which one of the following causes rainfall during winters in North-Western part of India? (a) Cyclonic depression (b) Retreating monsoon (c) Western disturbances (d) South West monsoon
question_answer175) (iv) Monsoon arrives in India approximately in (a) early May (b) early July (c) early June (d) early August
question_answer176) (v) Which one of the following characterises the cold weather season in India? (a) Warm days and warm nights (b) Warm days and cold nights (c) Cool days and cold nights (d) Cool days and warm nights
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