Answer: Option [B]The correct answer is Tropical deserts. Tropical deserts of the earth's surface receives the highest amount of insolation. Maximum insolation is received over the subtropical deserts, where the cloudiness is the least.
Answer: Option [D]The correct answer is oblate spheroid.
Answer: Option [B]The correct answer is 40075 KM. The circumference of the Earth depends on how it is measured. When it is measured around the equator, it is 40,075 km (approximately, 24,901 miles), whereas, if it measured from the north pole to the south pole it is 40,008 km (approximately, 24,860 miles).
Answer: Option [D]Tides in the sea have stored in them a combination of all the above three forms of energy.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Answer: Option [C]
- The tropical year is shorter than the sidereal year.
- The solar day is longer than the sidereal day.