CHAPTER-4 CLIMATE (SET-3)

Questions in this test

1. ________ creates low pressure on the landmass of India while the seas around experience comparatively high pressure.
2. The Inter tropical convergence zone $(ITCZ)$ is a broad trough of low pressure in ________.
3. In certain years, there is a reversal in the pressure condition over the eastern pacific and Indian ocean regions. This periodic change in pressure conditions is known as the ________.
4. ________ is the name given to the periodic development of a warm ocean current along the coast of Peruvian as a temporary replacement of the cold Peruvian current.
5. Around the time of the arrival of the monsoon, the normal rainfall increases suddenly and continues constantly for several days. This is known as ________.
6. The withdrawal of the monsoon begins in the northwestern states of India by early ________.
7. Towards the close of the summer season, pre-monsoon showers known as ________ are common especially, in Kerala and Karnataka.
8. Which one of the following causes rainfall during winters in the north-western part of India?
9. By the beginning of ________ the monsoon withdraws from the northern plains.
10. Monsoon arrives in India approximately in: