Arts (English Medium) इयत्ता ११ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for Geography

Underground flow of water is more common than surface run-off in limestone areas. Why?

Limestones behave differently in humid and arid climates. Why? What is the dominant and almost exclusive geomorphic process in limestone areas and what are its results?

Atmospheric layer important for human beings is ______.

What are the elements of weather and climate?

Why is the troposphere the most important of all the layers of the atmosphere?

Draw a suitable diagram for the structure of the atmosphere and label it and describe it.

Identify the major types of ecosystems in the world.

What is a food-chain?

Give one example of a grazing food-chain identifying the various levels.

What do you understand by the term ‘food web’? Give examples.

The atmosphere is mainly heated by the:

The main reason that the earth experiences the highest temperatures in the subtropics in the northern hemisphere rather than at the equator is:

How does the unequal distribution of heat over the planet earth in space and time cause variations in weather and climate?

What are the factors that control temperature distribution on the surface of the earth?

Why is the annual range of temperature high in the Siberian plains?

Discuss the processes through which the earth-atmosphere system maintains heat balance.

Compare the global distribution of temperature in January over the northern and the southern hemisphere of the earth.

The direction of wind around a low pressure in the northern hemisphere is ____________.

While the pressure gradient force is from north to south, i.e. from the subtropical high pressure to the equator in the northern hemisphere, why are the winds north easterlies in the tropics?

What are the geostrophic winds?