Wladimir Koppen, who gave the well known classification of world climates, was a
- A.German climatologist and botanist
- B.British geologist
- C.French oceanographer
- D.American meteorologist
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, a German climatologist and botanist. Koppen was born in Russia and worked in Germany, and his training in plant science is the reason his classification uses natural vegetation as the index of climate and sets its boundaries where vegetation belts change. Option B is wrong because he was not a geologist and his work had nothing to do with rocks or strata. Option C is wrong because he was not an oceanographer, although he did work on the climates of past ages with his son-in-law Alfred Wegener, who is remembered for continental drift. Option D is wrong because the American name usually paired with climate classification in the syllabus is C. W. Thornthwaite, whose scheme of 1948 is called rational because it rests on the water balance. The scheme itself was first published in 1918.
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Practice Questions
View allKoppen's classification of climate is based primarily on which two elements?
- A.Air pressure and wind direction
- B.Monthly mean temperature and precipitation
- C.Latitude and altitude
- D.Soil type and drainage
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Koppen, who was a botanist as well as a climatologist, held that natural vegetation is the best single index of climate, and he fixed his boundaries using the monthly values of temperature and rainfall that vegetation belts seem to follow.
Read the full explanation →In Koppen's scheme, which climatic type is found on the west coast of India south of Goa?
- A.As
- B.Aw
- C.Amw
- D.Cwg
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The code stands for a monsoon climate with a short dry season: the Malabar coast is hot in every month, so the capital A applies, and it receives extremely heavy rain from the south-west monsoon, leaving only a brief dry spell.
Read the full explanation →The As type of climate, a monsoon climate with dry summer, is found in India only along the
- A.Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu
- B.Konkan coast of Maharashtra
- C.Coast of Odisha
- D.Coast of Gujarat
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This coast lies in the rain shadow of the Western Ghats while the south-west monsoon blows, so its summer is comparatively dry, and it gets most of its rain between October and December from the retreating monsoon and the north-east monsoon, which is exactly what the small letter s records.
Read the full explanation →In Koppen's classification of Indian climates, the code BWhw, the hot desert type, is given to
- A.Eastern Rajasthan
- B.Extreme western Rajasthan
- C.Southern Punjab
- D.North-western Gujarat
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The capital B marks a dry climate, the capital W marks the arid or desert subdivision, h marks a hot climate and the last w marks a dry winter, so the whole code describes the heart of the Thar, the driest part of the country.
Read the full explanation →Which Indian state alone is given the Dfc code, a cold humid winter with a short summer?
- A.Sikkim
- B.Himachal Pradesh
- C.Arunachal Pradesh
- D.Meghalaya
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The capital D marks a cold snow forest climate in which the coldest month falls below minus three degrees Celsius, f marks the absence of a dry season and c marks a short summer with fewer than four months above ten degrees Celsius, and in the standard table for India…
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