Correct Answer: A It’s a warm & dry wind
Sirocco is a warm, dry and dusty laden local wind which blows in northerly direction from Sahara desert over North Africa as a dry wind and picks up moisture as it crosses the Mediterranean.
Since they carry red dust over Sahara, the rainfall which they cause is called blood rain sometimes.

Correct Answer: D Kikuyu
Notes: Some Important Local Winds:
1- Chinook- Hot, dry wind in Rockies, also called snow eater.
2- Foehn- Hot, dry wind in the Alps
3- Khamsin- Hot, dry wind in Egypt.
4- Sirocco- Hot, moist wind from Sahara to Mediterranean Sea
5- Solano- Hot, moist wind from Sahara towards Iberian Peninsula
6- Harmattan- Hot, dry wind blowing outwards from the interior of W.Africa, also called Guinea Doctor.
7- Bora- Cold, dry wind blowing outwards from Hungary to the north of Italy (near Adriatic Sea).
8- Mistral- Very cold wind, which blows from the Alps over France
9- Punas- Cold, dry wind blowing down towards the western side of Andes.
10- Blizzard- Very cold winds in Tundra region
11- Purga- Cold wind in Russian tundra
12- Levanter- Cold wind in Spain
13- Norwester- Hot wind in New Zealand
14- Santa Ana- Hot wind in S. California in USA.
Kikuyu, is most populous ethnic group or tribe of Kenya

Correct Answer: D- A big, flat area of wind-swept sand and dunes
In order for a dune field to be considered an erg, it must have at least about 50 square miles of wind-eroded sand, forming dunes, at least 20% of its surface must be sand. Ergs can be found on other planets, too, such as Venus and Mars.

Correct Answer: False
The Sahara desert may be the largest hot desert on the planet, but believe it or not, Antarctica is a desert as well. The Antarctic is much larger than the Sahara desert.

Read the above map carefully.

Correct Answer: d) Europe
A desert is catagorised as a region which can support little plant life due to insufficient moisture and dry soils. Antarctica is a desert because it fits this definition although it is not a hot dry region.

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