Tag: climatic regions
Questions Related to climatic regions
Tick the correct answer:
Deserts are characterised by _________.
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Scanty vegetation
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heavy precipitation
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low evaporation
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None of these
The correct definition of the 'biome' is areas having _______.
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Large forest cover
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Large ecosystem on land with distinct vegetation and animal life.
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Enough water on land.
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Only animal population
A biome is a community of plants and animals that have common characteristics for the environment they exist in. They can be found over a range of continents. Biomes are distinct biological communities that have formed in response to a shared physical climate.
The equatorial region is confined to ________.
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Amazon Basin
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Congo Basin
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Some parts of Asia
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All of these
Equatorial type of climate, also known as tropical rainforest wet climate , is located up to 5° to 10° latitudes on either side of the equator but at some places it extends up to 15°-25° latitudes mainly along the eastern margins of the continents.
The equatorial climate is found in the following localities:
(i) The Amazon Basin in South America,
(ii) The Congo Basin in Africa,
(iii) Guinea coast in Africa,
(iv) Much of the Indo-Malaysian Region mainly in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore and New Guinea,
(v) Philippine Islands,
(vi) Eastern central America (parts of Panama, Costarica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala etc.), some islands in the Caribbean Sea, western Columbia and eastern Madagascar.
Which ocean has the world's largest number of active volcanoes & so is called 'Ring of Fire'?
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Indian Ocean
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Atlantic Ocean
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Pacific Ocean
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Antarctic Ocean
The biomes are identified on the basis of ______.
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Cities
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Plants
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States
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Rocks
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None of these
Biomes are largely based on the geography and climate of a region. Therefore, a biome is a Geoclimatic zone that is identifiable on a global scale and includes things such as plants and animals.
Tick the correct answer:
Sahara is a ______ desert.
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cold
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hot
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mild
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None of these
The Sahara desert is the world's largest hot desert. It is the third-largest desert behind Antarctica and the Arctic, which are both cold deserts.
Which one of the following regions, comes under the equatorial climate?
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Desert of Chile
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Amazon-basin
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Atacama desert
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Pampas
Amazon basin is located in South America at 10° N and 10° S of the tropical region. This region is also referred to as the equatorial region. The Amazon river flows through the region and reaches the Atlantic Ocean through the mountains in the west.
Kalahari desert is in _______.
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North Africa
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South Africa
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South America
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Australia
- The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometers, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
- The Sahara is a desert located on the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world and the third-largest desert overall after Antarctica and the Arctic region.
- The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau in South America covering a 1,000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.
- Deserts of Australia:
Great Sandy Desert
Tanami Desert
Simpson Desert
Gibson Desert
Little Sandy Desert
Rainfall in the hot deserts is _______.
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Moderate
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High
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Low
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None of these
Generally, A desert is defined as an area that receives less than 10 inches or 25 cms of precipitation a year, of precipitation a year. Deserts that receive rain as their main form of precipitation is called hot deserts., while deserts that receive snow as their main form of precipitation is called cold deserts.
The characteristic type of rainfall in the equatorial region is _________.
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Cyclonic rainfall
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Convectional rainfall
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Orographic rainfall
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None of these
The convectional rainfall occurs due to the thermal convection currents caused due to the heating of ground due to insolation.The convectional rainfall is prevalent in equatorial regions. In these, the warm air rises up and expands then, reaches at a cooler layer and saturates, then condenses mainly in the form of cumulus or cumulonimbus clouds. In the equatorial regions, the precipitation due to convectional rainfall occurs in the afternoon