Daily Questions Challenge for IAS PRE (CSAT) Exam (16 December 2015)

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1. Which of the following are correct?

i) La Nina causes heavy rainfall and floods
ii) El Nino causes drought

(a) i only
(b) ii only
(c) both i and ii
(d) none

2. Which of the following are correct?

i) Absolute humidity is the measure of water vapor (moisture) in the air, regardless of temperature and humid air rises to great heights
ii) Relative humidity also measures water vapor but RELATIVE to the temperature of the air

(a) i-d, ii-b, iii-c, iv-a
(b) i-a, ii-b, iii-c, iv-d
(c) i-d, ii-b, iii-c, iv-a
(d) i-c, ii-b, iii-a, iv-d

3. Which of the following are correct?

i) Orographic precipitation occurs when warm and humid air rises to great heights
ii) Convectinal precipitation occurs when humid air strikes landforms such as Mountains

(a) i only
(b) ii only
(c) both i and ii
(d) none

4. Which of the following are correct?

i) El Niño Modoki is associated with strong anomalous warming in the central tropical Pacific and cooling in the eastern and western tropical Pacific
ii) The El Niño Modoki phenomenon is characterized by the anomalously warm central equatorial Pacific flanked by anomalously cool regions in both west and east

(a) i only
(b) ii only
(c) both i and ii
(d) none

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Direction : Each of the questions consists of two capitalised words which have a certain relationship to each other. Followed by four pairs of words. Choose the pair that is related to each other in the same way as the capitalised pair.