Consider the following statements :
- 1.The Red Sea receives very little precipitation in any form.
- 2.No water enters the Red Sea from rivers.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
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Answer: C. Statement 1 is correct: the Red Sea lies in a hot desert belt and gets very little rain, only a few centimetres a year. Statement 2 is correct: no permanent river flows into it, so it loses far more water by evaporation than it gains. This is why it is one of the saltiest seas. So both.
Watch for: The Nile is nearby, so students think it feeds the Red Sea, but it flows into the Mediterranean.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because Statement 2 is also correct.
- B. Wrong because Statement 1 is also correct.
- D. Wrong because both statements explain why the Red Sea is so salty.
Source to check: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Red Sea' (hydrology and climate); NCERT Class 11 Fundamentals of Physical Geography, Chapter 13 'Water (Oceans)', salinity
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