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Answer the following questions in brief :
(i) Name the four seasons of India.
(ii) State any two characteristics of southwest mons
(iii) What are the characteristic features of hot sea
Give any two features of the hot season.
(iv) The Eastern Coast receives rainfall in winter
(v) What is meant by rainshadow area?
Answers
Answer:
(i) winter.
Summer.
Spring.
Monsoon.
(ii) Two important characteristics of the Southwest monsoon rainfall are: It is influenced by the mountains and relief features of the country. For example, the western slopes of the Western Ghats get heavy rainfall while the eastern slopes get scanty rainfall as the latter lies on the leeward side of the Western Ghats.
(iii) 1.)Northward movement of the sun. .
2.)There is overall increase in temperature.
3.)There is also occurrence of localised thunderstorms like violent winds.
(iv.)In winters, it receives rainfall due to the northeast trade winds. They are offshore winds which blow from land to sea but due to India's topography, they change direction and flow over the Bay of Bengal and pick up moisture.
(v.)A rain shadow is a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather. On the other side of the mountain—the rain shadow side—all that precipitation is blocked. In a rain shadow, it's warm and dry.