{"id":2841,"date":"2026-04-22T19:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:10:04","slug":"consider-the-following-statements-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/prelims\/consider-the-following-statements-7","title":{"rendered":"Consider the following statements:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement I:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>In January, in the Northern Hemisphere, the isotherms bend equatorward while crossing the landmasses, and poleward while crossing the oceans.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement II<\/strong>: In January, the air over the oceans is warmer than that over the landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li><strong>Both Statement I and Statement II are correct and Statement II explains Statement I\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Both Statement I and Statement II are correct but Statement II does not explain Statement I\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement I is correct but Statement II is not correct\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Statement I is not correct but Statement II is correct\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (a) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct and Statement II explains Statement I&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In January, the Northern Hemisphere\u2019s large landmasses cool down rapidly, leading to lower temperatures.\u00a0<\/strong>Isotherms<strong>\u00a0shift southward (towards the equator) over the continents.<\/strong>\u00a0In contrast, o<strong>ceans retain heat longer,<\/strong>\u00a0so the isotherms\u00a0<strong>bend northward (poleward)\u00a0<\/strong>when passing over oceans like the North Atlantic, where warm currents like the Gulf Stream increase the surrounding air temperature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Due to the\u00a0<strong>high specific heat capacity of water, oceans cool down more slowly than land.\u00a0<\/strong>Therefore, in winter (January), the marine areas remain warmer than the adjacent continental interiors. Because of this temperature contrast the isotherms bend equatorward while crossing the landmasses and poleward while crossing the oceans in the month of January in the northern hemisphere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Seasonal-Temperature-Distribution-%E2%80%93-January-1024x717.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53873\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Seasonal-Temperature-Distribution-%E2%80%93-July-1024x704.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53874\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement I:&nbsp;&nbsp;In January, in the Northern Hemisphere, the isotherms bend equatorward while crossing the landmasses, and poleward while crossing the oceans.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Statement II: In January, the air over the oceans is warmer than that over the landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Answer:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[37],"years":[63],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prelims","category-upsc","tag-geography","years-63"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"},{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":63,"label":"2025"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1},{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}