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C. Answer the questions briefly :
1. How is the climate different from the weather?
2. Can we call India having a ‘monsoon type of climate’? Why?

3. Why is it cold at places away from the Equator?
4. What are breezes?
5. How useful is the Himalayan range to India?
6. What are the three climatic zones?
7. What all information does a weather forecast contain?

Activity

v Name the type of climate the following places will have :
1. A place very near the sea : __________________
2. A place located at a high altitude : __________________
3. A place located in the Torrid Zone : __________________ A F G H A N I S T A N
JAMMU
&
KASHMIR
4. A place located near the North Pole : __________________ SRINAGAR Leh Ladakh
HIMACHAL C H I N A
v Look at the Tropic of Cancer in the given map of India. PRADESH TIBET
SHIMLA
PUNJAB
CHANDIGARH UTTARAKHAND
DEHRADUN
Find out the climatic zones that are there in North India P A K I S T A N H R A A Y NA DELHI N E SIKKIM ARU N C ADES AL H
A H
and South India : R A J A S T H A N PRADESH P A L GANGTOK BHUTAN ASSAM P R
ITANAGAR
UTTAR
JAIPUR
KOHIMA
LUCKNOW DISPUR NAGALAND
PATNA SHILLONG MANIPUR
B I H A R MEGHALAYA IMPHAL
BANGLADESH
AGARTALA
Tropic GANDHINAGAR MADHYA H JHARKH AND WEST TRIPURATRIPURA AIZAWL
of G U J A R A T BHOPAL PRADESH AR RANCHI BENGAL MIZORAM
Cancer H A T G KOLKATA
Daman
Daman C H T IS
DIU (D&D) D &NHD &NH
(D&D)
(D&D) SILVASSA M A H A R A S H T R A RAIPUR O D I S H A MYANMAR
BHUBANESWAR
MUMBAI
HYDERABAD
A R A B I A N S E A A T LAN A G NA B AY O F B E N G A L
A K E SH
A T PRADE
PANAJI ANDHRA
GOA R N
K A
CHENNAI ANDAMAN
BENGALURU D U
T A M L N A ( IND AND PORT BLAIR
LAK
I
I
K E
( ND
SHAD
I
KAVARATTI R A L IA) NICOBAR ANDAMAN
A)
SEA
WEE
A
P
THIRUVANANTHAPURAMANANTHAPURAM Gulf
THIRUV
of
Mannar ISLANDS
KANY
KANYAKUMARIAKUMARI
S R I
L A N K A
Not to scale I N D I A N O C E A N
Weather, Climate and You
v Gather the following information on the weather forecast for three days from the newspaper :
Date Temperature Temperature Humidity Sunny/Cloudy
(Maximum) (Minimum)
Now, calculate the average of these conditions :
On this basis, try to find out the type of climate you have at your place : ______________________
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