Climatic Zones

Question 1

Hot wet eq climate

Answer 1

High diurnal and annual range of temp
Temperature uniform throughout
Top soil leached
No winter
Conventional rain
Rain forest
Desilication
Latosol
Laterization..heavy mass weathering
Dissolve all minerals except iron and aluminium
60-100 inch rainfall
25°c
Vegetation Selvas
Animal defence mechanisms
Camouflage technique
Large lifeforms

Question 2

Tropical Monsoon

Answer 2

Differential heating of land and ocean
Throughout onshore trade winds
No particular dry season
Rainfall in summer 70 inch
Deciduous forest
Example Indian subcontinent
Both conventional and orographic rainfall

Question 3

Sudan or savanna

Answer 3

Confined within Tropics
Transitional between eq and desert
Distinctive dry and wet season
Ilanos of orinoco basin and campos of brazilian highlands
High diurnal range of temp
Rainfall in summer 100-150cm
Mean temp 3-8°c
Big game hunters Masai Hausa tribes
Short treds and large grasses
Park land and Bush veld
Trees reduce as one moves away from rivers or coast
Deciduous trees
Humus soils

Question 4

Mid latitude hot desert

Answer 4

Between 15-30° N and S
High diurnal range of temp
Soil rich in nutrients but poor in organic matter
Subtropical high pressure
Horse latitude
Onshore westerly
Offshore rain bearing winds
Low humid impossible for condensation
No winter

Question 5

China type

Answer 5

Eastern margin temperate
Just outside tropics
Evergreen broadleaf deciduous
Rainfall almost every month
Dry moist summer
Cool dry winter
Rice tea mulberry Tobacco
Humid climate

Question 6

Temperate continental
Steppe climate

Answer 6

Interior continents away from maritime influence
Practically treeless
Westerly influence

Manchurian china
Pustaz Hungary

Summers very warm
Nutritional Alfa Alfa
Soil deep dark fertile

Question 7

Mediterranean

Answer 7

Shifting of wind belts
Onshore trades
Rainfall in winter
Local winds–sirocco and mistral
Absence of shade
Trees small broad few leaves
Fire important hazard
Xerophytic
Excessive evaporation and droughts

Question 8

Oxygen will be negligible in the height of

Answer 8

Around 120 km

Question 9

Carbon dioxide and water paper are found only up to

Answer 9

90 km from earth surface

Question 10

Ozone layer found between

Answer 10

10 and 15 km above earth surface

Question 11

Water paper decrease towards

Answer 11

Water vapour decreases from equator towards the poles

Question 12

About dust particles

Answer 12

Concentrated in the lower layers of atmosphere but conventional air current may transport them to great height

Question 13

Does particle is concentrated in which region of the earth

Answer 13

Subtropical and temperate region due to dry wind in comparison to equatorial and polar region

Question 15

Density decreases with increase in

Answer 15

Altitude
Highest near the surface of the earth

Question 16

Troposphere contains

Answer 16

Does particles and water vapour
Normal lapse rate

Question 17

Troposphere the height

Answer 17

8 in the poles and 18 in the equator because of conventional currents

Question 18

Tropopause temperatures

Answer 18

Minus 80 degree over equator and minus 40 degree over pole

Question 19

Extremely rarefied layer

Answer 19

Exosphere

Question 20

Why sunrise fall obliquely at the top of the atmosphere

Answer 20

Because of geoid shape

Question 21

Perihelion

Answer 21

3rd January
Nearest to the sun

Question 22

Aphelion

Answer 22

4th July
Far from the Sun

Question 23

Higher the latitude the slanting of ray results

Answer 23

Higher the latitude less angle so slanting rays

Question 24

Atmosphere transparent to

Answer 24

Short wave solar radiation

Question 25

Solar radiation is more over continent or ocean in same latitude

Answer 25

Over the continent Also equator receives less solar radiation than tropic

Question 26

Who absorb near infrared radiation in troposphere

Answer 26

Water vapour and ozone and other gases

Question 27

Convective transfer of energy is confined only

Answer 27

In troposphere

Question 28

Which movement of air is relatively more

Answer 28

Horizontal movement of air more than vertical

Question 29

Why the tropics do not get progressively heated up due to access heat

Answer 29

The heat energy from the tropics is re distributed polewards

Question 30

What is heat Island effect

Answer 30

Experience in heat due to construction of building

Question 31

Deviation of isotherm is more pronounced in

Answer 31

More pronounced in January than in July especially in Northern hemisphere

Question 32

About the deviation of isotherms

Answer 32

In January deviate to North over the Ocean and to the South over the continent In July run parallel to latitude

Question 33

Temperature inversion in pole

Answer 33

Normally throughout the year

Question 34

Air drainage

Answer 34

Heavy and dense cold air pile up deeply in the pocket and valley bottoms with warm air above

Question 35

Planck's law

Answer 35

Hoter the body more energy radiate shorter the wavelength of the radiation

Question 36

Which pressure gradiant is larger

Answer 36

Vertical pressure and force is much larger than horizontal

Question 37

Why air is denser at the surface

Answer 37

Due to gravity

Question 38

Friction is less in

Answer 38

Over the sea surface