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1. Answer: (b) Pressure
Explanation: Pressure is not the part of daily weather report. Pressure of air can not be written because there should be sudden rise in pressure.
2. Answer: (d) in any of the above time period
Explanation:change within a short period of time, week after week, day after day.
3. Answer: (a) rain gauge
Explanation: The standard instrument for the measurement of rainfall is the 203mm (8 inch) rain gauge. This is essentially a circular funnel with a diameter of 203mm which collects the rain into a graduated and calibrated cylinder. The measuring cylinder can record up to 25mm of precipitation.
4. Answer: (b) They cannot swim
Explanation: Penguins are white and blend in well with their surroundings. To shield itself from the cold, it has a thick skin and a lot of fat. Penguins huddled close together in order to stay warm.
5. Answer: (c) Long grasping tail
Explanation: All the given options except 'Long grasping tail' are an adaption of polar region animals. The adaption 'Long grasping tail' is fund in tropical region animals.
6. Answer: (d) Long tail
Explanation: Long tail is not an adaptive feature in polar bear. Polar bears can grow up to 3 meters in length. Polar bears do have tails, and like both the black bear and the brown bear, the tail is short.
7. Answer: (d) All of these
Explanation:Tropical forest has a hot and humid climate, an enormous number and variety of species, and competition for food and agriculture.
8. Answer: (a) Very hot and wet
Explanation: Kerala's climate is very hot and wet as it lies in the tropical region.
9. Answer: (b) Water
Explanation: Aquatic animals have streamlined and slipper body as it gets easier for them to swim through the water currents without damaging their bodies.
10. Answer: (b) winter season
Explanation: In winter, the Northern Hemisphere points away from the sun, resulting in fewer hours of sunshine and shorter days.
11. Answer: (a) due to sun
Explanation:The sun is a huge sphere of hot gases at a very high temperature. The distance of the sun from us is very large.
12. Answer: (b) sand cools down faster
Explanation: Nights are cooler in the deserts than in the plains because Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth. Because deserts have such little water vapor in the air, it makes it harder to trap heat or cold in a desert.
13. Answer: (d) Gills
Explanation: Fish gills are organs that allow fish to breathe underwater. Most fish exchange gases like oxygen and carbon dioxide using gills that are protected under gill covers (operculum) on both sides of the pharynx (throat).
14. Answer: (b) climate char
Explanation: Climate is the weather pattern of a particular place over a long period. It depends on the long-term patterns in a place like rainfall, temperature, humidity, wind, etc. A climate chart is the annual record of the long-term average temperature and rainfall at a particular place.
15. Answer: (d) sloth
Explanation: The sloth is the slowest mammal on earth. Land tortoises move at a speed of less than one mile per hour. It would take a snail 5 days and 12 hours to move a mile.
16. Answer: (c) spines
Explanation: The plants which grow and survive in the desert conditions have certain modified adaptations. The cactus plants grow in the desert area. In order to prevent the loss of water in these arid conditions, the leaves of the plants have been modified into sharp pointed thin structures known as spines. These spines reduce the surface area for preventing loss of water.
17. Answer: (a) polar region
Explanation:Polar region is the coldest region on the earth.
18. Answer: (a) meteorological department
Explanation: It is the principal agency responsible for meteorological observations, weather forecasting and seismology.
19. Answer: (c) Hibernation
Explanation: Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression. Hibernation is a seasonal heterothermy characterized by low body-temperature, slow breathing and heart-rate, and low metabolic rate.
20. Answer: (b) Behavioral adaptation
Explanation: Behavioral adaptations are the things organisms do to survive. For example, bird calls and migration are behavioral adaptations.
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