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ICSE Class X Question Bank 2024 : Geography

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INSOLATION (Questions for discussion) 1. What is the average surface temperature of the Sun s surface? 2. What type of radiation is emitted by the sun? 3. At what speed solar energy travels? 4. How long it takes for the sun s energy to reach earth? 5. What is horse power? How is this related to insolation? 6. What is terrestrial radiation? How does it affect the atmosphere? 7. List the three main processes through which the atmosphere is heated. 8. What is convection? 9. In which medium convection happens? 10. What is conduction? 11. When and where conduction is observed generally? 12. What is radiation? 13. Name few radioactive materials. 14. What is differential heating? 15. How does land and water differ in properties of absorption and radiation of heat? 16. What is insolation? 17. What is solar constant? 18. Which factor determines the horizontal distribution of temperature? 19. List the other factors affecting the distribution of temperature. 20. What is the connection between latitudes and temperature / Heat zones of the world? 21. What is normal lapse rate? 22. What is inversion of temperature / temperature inversion? 23. Where do we generally find inversion of temperature? 24. Fruit growers in mid latitudes prefer gentle slopes to valley bottom for orchard sites. Give reason. 25. Compare the climatic condition in Mumbai and Nagpur with reference to distance from the sea. 26. What are the two categories of Ocean currents? 27. How does ocean currents affect the eastern and western margins of the continents in mid latitudes? 28. Western Europe and Japan are habitable because of ocean currents. Give reasons. 29. Differentiate between on-shore and off-shore winds. 30. Name few hot and cold local winds 31. How clouds and rainfall affect insolation? 32. How does the presence of Himalayas affect the temperature? 33. What is the connection between slope of a mountain and inversion of temperature? 34. What are sheltered slopes? 35. Forest areas have lesser range of temperature than deserts. Why? 36. How does nature of soil affect insolation? 37. Alluvial soil and black soil absorbs more heat than red and laterite soil. Why? 38. North - facing slopes are much warmer than south - facing slopes in the Southern hemisphere.

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