What is a tornado?

(a)What is guttation? What is the cause of guttation? (b) What are hydathodes?

The angluar speed of a whirlwind in a tornado towards the centre

Explain why the speed of a whirl wind in a tornado is alarmingly high ?

Directions : In the following questions, you have two passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives Passage - II (9. Nos. 196-200) One of the American Navy's greatest losses during World War If was inflicted not by the Japanese, but by the weather. On the evening of 17 December 1944, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet Task Force 38 were re plenishing stocks of food, fuel and ammunition during a sea rendez vous with support ships when a savage tornado struck the Philip pine Sea. One of the commanders said later, "My ship was riding as though caught in some giant washing machine. We were rolling be tween heaving cliffs of water, caught in so strong a vice of wind and sea that our 50,000 horse-power engines were helpless.' It was nine hours before he regained control of his ship, after the fleet had bobbed like helpless shuttlecocks, unable to prevent collisions in the sledge hammer waves. The ships caught in the tornado

What is matter? what is diffusion?

What is lanthanoid contraction? What is its cause and what ar its consequences ?