2025 · Q36
Identify the type of climate on the basis of the following characteristics relating to it:
- ITemperature is high throughout the year.
- IIRainfall is variable with a short wet season and a longer dry season.
- IIIClimate of Sudan and Paraguay is an example of this climate type.
General KnowledgeGeography
- ASubtropical steppe climate
- BMidlatitude steppe
- CTropical monsoon climate
- DTropical wet and dry climate
Explanation
A climate with high temperature throughout the year, a short wet season and a longer dry season, exemplified by Sudan and Paraguay, is the tropical wet-and-dry (savanna, Aw) climate. The steppe is a mid-latitude grassland with low rainfall, the hot desert has negligible rain, and the monsoon climate has a longer wet season — none fits the description and examples as well as the tropical wet-and-dry type. The natural vegetation is savanna grassland with scattered trees, adapted to the long dry season.