Represent the following on the outline map of India: How pressure area in summer and direction of winds. Areas of winter rainfall and direction of North-East monsoon winds. Cherrapunji, Jaisalmer, Allahabad, Chennai.

====---- Regions of very less rainfall- north western part of Rajasthan receives very less rainfall below 50 cm. Location of Inter-tropical convergence zone in the month of June: The ITCZ is on the equator, but in the month of June due to the shifting of sunrays it is on the Tropic of Cancer. Regions of more than 200 centimetres rainfall: The Coastal regions or the windward side of Western Ghats, and the north eastern parts of Garo, Khasi and Jantia hills.

Represent the following on the outline map of India: Regions of very less rainfall. Location of Inter-tropical convergence zone in the month of June. Regions of more than 200 centimetres rainfall.

Low pressure area in summer and direction of winds: The Tropic of Cancer receives the direct rays of the sun, during summer in India, thus the land of India is under low pressure, and the south-west monsoon winds blows sea-land. Areas of winter rainfall and direction of North-East monsoon winds: During winter season, the rainfall occurs in interior places in the country Punjab, Haryana, northern Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir also the coastal areas of Tamilnadu and Kerala receive more rainfall in winters as compared to summers by the north-eastern monsoons. Cherrapunji receives the maximum rainfall in the country, Jaisalmer receives very less rainfall, Indian IST passes through Allahabad, Chennai receives the winter rainfall.

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Punjab Board Solutions for Chapter: The Climate, Exercise 1: Exercise

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