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The term adiabatic change of temperature stands for 

• Fall of temperature after precipitation

• Heating and cooling of an ascending or descending air through compression of expansion

• Heating of ascending air

• Cooling of descending air

What are the effects of the low level temperature inversion occuring in cool nights over the urban areas ?

(a) Entrapment of pollutants causing heavily smog

(b) Pleasant weather conditions 

(c) Unusually unstable air

(d) Unusually stable air

• (a) and (c)

• (b) and (c)

• (a) and (d)

• (b) and (d)

The "Ice Crystal Theory" related to precipitation was propounded by

• Boven

• Muir

• Peterson

• Bergeron

Which one of the following parts of the Indian coast is a compound coast showing evidence of both submergence and emergence ?

• Orissa coast

• Malabar coast

• Konkan coast

• Coromondal coast

Darwin's subsidence theory is related to

• Marine terraces

• Coral reefs 

• Cycle of erosion

• Tides

Fiord shorelines are formed due to

• Submergence of suberially eroded coast

• Submergence of glaciated coast

• Fluvial deposition

• Marine erosion

Tsunamis are produced by

• Tides

• Cyclones

• Sub-marine earthquakes

• Shrinking of earth's crust

Which one of the following sediments deposits cover the largest of the ocean floor ?

• Terrigenous

• Cosmogenous

• Biogenous

• Hydrogenous

• a-iv , b-i , c-ii , d-iii

• a-i , b-iv , c-iii , d-ii

• a-ii , b-i , c-iv , d-iii

• a-iii , b-ii , c-i , d-iv

Cephalic index , which is to classify human races , is calculated as

• ratio between the length and breadth of the nose

• ratio between the length of the head and weight of the human body

• ratio between flatness and length of the head.

• ratio between breadth and length of the head.