Class Room Daily Dose Booklet: DDB No: World Geography - English Set 02 Answers and Explanations

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DDB NO: World Geography 02 (English)

The Earth

1 B. Aplheuon

2 D. 4 3 2 1

3 C. 30° East

4 B. 8.00 A.M.

5 B. Colombia, Kenya and Indonesia

6 D. Sideral year

7 B. 24

8 C. Because of its long east-west stretches

9 A. Oxygen

10 D. Nepal

11 B. standard time of the country

12 D. 12 Noon on Tuesday

13 A. 10.00 a.m. it is 1.30 p.m. in Japan

14 B. 12°50’ W

15 D. 8 : 30 p. m. of previous day

16 B. 2 and 3

17 C. 30° East and 75° West

18 C. 82°30’ E

19 A. Ghana

20 D. the same as that of A

21 C. Aleutian Islands

22 D. II only

23 C. Thursday

24 D. Both I and II

25 C. 18.30 hrs

26 D. different phases of the moon

27 B. 8.26 A.M.

28 B. Africa – North America – South America – Europe

29 A. In the South Atlantic Ocean

30 C. 2, 4, 1, 5

31 A. 2 1 4 3

32 B. 1 and 2

33 B. 35° north and 100° east

34 C. 1:30 PM

35 A. 0 km

36 C. 1, 2 and 4

37 C. 111 km

38 D. 30,000 km

39 C. Both 1 and 2

40 B. mid-latitudes

41 C. A periodic rise and fall of sea water caused by the gravitational force of moon and sun on earth

42 C. 1 and 3

43 A. crust

44 C. water needs more energy to get warm

45 C. 966 million kms

46 B. earth is inclined towards its orbital plane

47 D. Torrid Zone

48 A. 1 and 2 only

49 C. The Sun’s rays are vertical at all places on the days of the equinoxes

50 A. clouds

51 A. 47%

52 C. heat balance of earth

53 B. equator

54 C. the Tropic of Capricorn

55 C. the outer core and the lower mantle

56 C. III and IV

57 D. Yemen

58 B. Silica

59 C. At Mumbai the sun can come overhead, but it will never do so at Delhi

60 D. 1 and 4

61 C. Because of more iceberg activity in Southern Hemisphere

62 C. Spring tide

63 C. trapping of solar energy due to atmospheric carbon dioxide

64 A. Bering strait

65 C. does not divide a group of islands under the same administration

66 B. it gains one day

67 D. 2 and 4

68 A. 12.00noon

69 B. 2, 3 and 4

70 C. 1, 2 and 3

71 B. 2 only

72 B. 35°

73 C. One hour

74 D. 5 p.m. of Sunday, the 13th June

75 C. 0° E or W

76 C. the same day at 7:30 a.m.

77 C. Sunday

78 C. 3.30 P.M.

79 D. 30° N Lat., 130°W long

80 D. 7.04 a.m.

81 D. Poles have days and nights of 6 months duration

82 D. 2, 3 and 4

83 D. the amount of insolation reflected back to the space by the top of atmosphere, by clouds and ice-covered areas of the Earth’s surface

84 C. twice a year

85 D. parallelism of inclined axis of the earth

86 C. The time during which the earth makes a complete rotation on its axis in respect of the fixed stars

87 A. January

88 A. 1° per day

89 C. 21st March to 23rd September

90 B. places diametrically opposite on earth’s surface

91 D. Nickel and Iron

92 B. Sun-rays falling on the earth are inclined more towards the sun in winter

93 A. Eratosthenes

94 A. insolation

95 B. earth comes between the sun and the moon

96 C. the moon’s orbit is not all the time in the same plane as the earth

97 B. Full moon

98 B. the size of the shadow of the Moon on the Earth is small compared to the cross-section of the Earth

99 C. Moon comes between sun and earth

100 A. perihelion

101 A. Equator

102 C. Japan being the Eastern most country in the World, it has the earliest sunrise

103 B. Revolution

104 D. 9.72 km/sec.

105 B. Apigee

Atmosphere

1 C. ascent of air leading to cooling and condensation

2 A. When condensation takes place below 0° C and precipitation occurs in the form of flakes

3 B. 40° North and South

4 B. I, II, III and IV

5 C. II and III

6 B. convectional

7 A. All forms of precipitation converted to the quantity of liquid water

8 A. advection

9 C. Hail

10 A. oxygen

11 B. 18° C

12 D. 3 1 2 4

13 D. Calm, clear and cool winter night

14 D. I, III and IV

15 B. diurnal temperatures of short ranges

16 D. Nimbostratus

17 A. Cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals

18 B. Cumulus

19 D. winds are horizontal movements of air while air currents are the vertical movements of air

20 A. North-western

21 C. katabatic wind

22 A. geostropic wind

23 B. Monsoons are local seasonal winds

24 D. Nor’ westers

25 B. 4 2 5 1

26 D. mild rainfall

27 B. from a region of high pressure to a region of low pressure

28 C. 5 degree latitude towards north and south

29 B. argon

30 B. equatorial zone with low pressure

31 C. 2 only

32 A. Gravitational pull of the earth

33 B. day from sea to land

34 B. wind vane

35 B. wind velocity

36 C. temperature at 1°F for an ascent of 330 feet

37 D. only 3

38 C. inflowing movement of air along the earth's surface towards the equator

39 D. Progressively lesser solar energy per unit area falls on the earth's surface as we move to Polar Regions

40 C. 2, 4, 1, 3