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Exercise

Answer the following questions:

1. What do you mean by climate?
2. Differentiate between climate and weather.
3. What do you understand by rain shadow area?
4. Name the places which come under the rain shadow area in Nepal?
5. Explain the seasons of Nepal.
6. Observe the figure and interpret it highlighting the reasons for more rainfall in
the mountains than the plains.

Terai
Siwaliks Inner
Mahabharat Himalayas
Range Himalayas

Tibet Plateau

7. Why does the summer rain decreases in the western part of Nepal?

Community Work

What kind of climate do you find in your locality?
Take the help of meteorologists, weather reports given in Newspaper or in television.

Project Work

Collect the sample of costumes worn by Nepalese people during the summer season and
the winter season. Paste them separately in a chart paper, label them and paste it in your
classroom. This project work can be done in a group.

201 Dynamic Social Studies - Book IX