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Climatic Regions and Climate Change
Social Science · Kerala SSLC (Class 10) · English Medium · 20 questions and answers
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- Q: What is a climatic region?
- A: A climatic region is a large area of the Earth's surface that has broadly similar climatic conditions of temperature and rainfall.
- Q: Who developed a widely used classification of climatic regions?
- A: The German scientist Wladimir Koppen developed a widely used scientific classification of climatic regions.
- Q: On what basis did Koppen classify climates?
- A: Koppen classified climates mainly on the basis of temperature, rainfall and natural vegetation.
- Q: What is climate change?
- A: Climate change is the long-term change in the average weather patterns and climate of the Earth, especially the rise in global temperature.
- Q: What is global warming?
- A: Global warming is the gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere, mainly due to the increase of greenhouse gases.
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