Question
What is climate?
✓
Answer
Climate is the average weather of an area. It represents the general pattern of atmospheric or weather conditions, seasonal variations and weather extremes, in a region over an extended period, say 50 years or 100 years. For example, desert areas have a hot climate whereas snowbound mountains have a cold climate.
Need a full question paper?
Generate a complete, print-ready paper with questions like this in minutes — across 16+ boards, with answer keys.
Explore more
Similar questions
Use your ideas about pressure to explain why it is easier to walk on soft sand if you have flat shoes rather than shoes with sharp heels.
In loading a truck, a man lifts boxes of 100N each through a height of 1.5m.
- How much work does he do in lifting one box?
- How much energy is transferred when one box is lifted?
- If the man lifts 4 boxes per minute, at what is he working? (g = 10 ms-2)
When is an object said to possess energy?
Demonstrate the formation of convective currents.
Predict the total number of atoms in case:
Calcium phosphate.
Calcium phosphate.
The mass number of an element is 23 and it contains 11 electrons. What is the number of protons and neutrons in it? What is the atomic number of the element?
Write the energy transformation which takes place in an electric bulb.
The flash of a gun is seen by a man 3 seconds before the sound is heared. Calculate the distance of the gun from the man (Speed of sound in air is 332m/s).
An echo is returned in 6s. What is the distance of reflecting surface from source? [given that speed of sound is 342m/s]
Give reasons for the following:
When a person moves out of a boat, it moves backward.
When a person moves out of a boat, it moves backward.