ReasoningModerate1 mark
3(c)
Give a reason for each of the following:
Thar is a desert.
Topic: The Thar Desert
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Answer
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The Aravalli range runs parallel to the monsoon winds instead of across them, so it wrings no rain out of them — and the region, left with scanty rainfall, has remained a desert.
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