4 Climate
EXERICSES
1. Show on the outline map of India:
(i)
Direction of Summer Monsoons.
(ii)
Direction of Winter Monsoons.
(iii)
Two regions receiving more than 200 cm. rainfall.
(iv)
Two regions receiving rainfall between 100-200 cm.
(v)
Two regions receiving rainfall between 50-100 cm.
2.
Class Activity
(i)
Check in the newspapers of March, which regions of Punjab got more than
average
rainfall. Discuss in your class, the effect of rainfall over underground water,
with help of your teacher.
(ii)
Note the timings of sunrise and sunset with the help of newspapers in the month
of August and discuss ‘Position of Sun and Earth’ with the help of your
teacher.
Answer the following questions in a
single word to one sentence length :
1.
What is the reason of winter rainfall in Tamilnau:
(i)
South–West Monsoon (ii) North-East Monsoon
(iii)
Local reasons (iv) None of these
2.
Which city among the following gets maximum average rainfall:
(i)
Mumbai (ii) Dharamshala
(iii)
Mawsynram (iv) Kolkata
3.
What among the following is reason for winter rainfall in Punjab:
(i)
Trade winds (ii) Western cyclone
(iii)
Polar winds (iv) Mountains
4.
‘Tsunami’ is a word from which language:
(i)
French (ii) Japnese
(iii)
Punjabi (iv) English
5.
Lines joining places with equal rainfall in a map are known as:
(i)
Isotherms (ii) Isohyets
(iii)
Isobars (iv) None of these
6.
What is ‘Loo’?
7.
What is climatology called in Punjabi?
8.
What do you understand by the term ‘Monsoon’?
9.
What is the relationship of temperature and pressure?
10.
Name the places with minimum and maximum rainfall in India.
Give short answers for the following questions:
1.
Explain difference between weather and climate.
2.
What do you understand by Farrel’s law ?
3.
Indian rainfall is neither systematic nor specific, explain.
4.
What is difference between wind vane and Anemometer ?
5.
Write a note on winter rainfall in India.
6.
Orographic rainfall is a typically mountanious phenomenon. Explain.
7.
Write a note on:
(i)
Jet Stream (ii) Isotherms (iii) Dry and Wet bulb thermometer
8.
Natural calamities bring ‘‹˜È?-Ó˜Ò?’ harm; In this statement, what do you mean
by ‘‹˜È?-Ó˜Ò?’?
Answer the following questions in detail:
1.
On what factors does climate of a place depend?
2.
Explain the types of rainfall in details.
3.
Describe Arabian Sea branch and Bay of Bengal branch of Monsoons.
4.
Name the instruments used for collecting information about various aspects of
climate, write in short about all of them?
5.
What bad effects do natural disasters bring to human lives? Explain.
