SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Overall weather in an area over a long time.
A
weather
B
climate
C
equinox
D
solstice
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The average weather pattern of a place taken over a long period of time is called climate.

Detailed explanation-2: -So, for example, it may be 75° degrees and sunny or it could be 20° degrees with heavy snow. That’s the weather. Climate is the average of that weather. For example, you can expect snow in the Northeast in January or for it to be hot and humid in the Southeast in July.

Detailed explanation-3: -Weather refers to the local conditions on the scale of minutes, hours, days, and even months to years: you can have an extremely wet month, warm winter, or rainy decade. Climate is an average of weather conditions over 30 years or more, and can be evaluated for a single location, large area, or globally.

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