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Question 2. [2½x10=25]

(a) Define Isohyets.

(b) What is Precipitation?

(c) What do you mean by Meteorology?

(d) What do you mean by strait?

(e) Name the water bodies around the continent America.

(f) Who explored the Africa?

(g) Which are the major latitudes that pass from the Africa?

(h) Write any two deserts of Africa.

(i) Which is the longest river in the world?

(j) Name the strait that separate Africa from Asia.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1. Isohyets means a line on a map connecting points having the same amount of rainfall in a given period.
2. Precipitation includes all processes that the Earth surface receives water from the atmosphere.
3. The study of weather and climate is called meteorology.
4. A narrow piece of sea that joins two larger seas is called strait.
5. North America is Artic ocean and in south America is Atlantic ocean. In the south east Caribbean sea and guff of Mexico and in the west by Pacific Ocean.
6. David Livingston explored Africa .
7. Tropic of cancer, Tropic of capricorn and the Equator pass from Africa.
8. Karoo desert and Sahara desert.
9. Nile river is the largest in the world

10. Red sea and Suez cannel.

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