Discussion
Assertion (A): The great deserts of the world lie near twenty to thirty degrees latitude.
Reason (R): Air descends in the subtropical high pressure belt, warming and drying as it sinks.
Answer: D
Both are true and the reason gives the mechanism: subsiding air cannot produce precipitation, and the Sahara, Arabian and Australian deserts all lie in that belt. Descent suppresses rain entirely. The belt shifts with the seasons.
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