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Any wind blowing down the slope of a mountain is called

  • A.Anabatic Wind
  • B.Katabatic Wind
  • C.Down Falling Wind
  • D.Slope Wind

Answer: B

It is called a katabatic wind.

Air on the slope cools at night, becomes denser than the air at the same level over the valley, and flows downhill under gravity. The reverse daytime flow up the slope is the anabatic wind. Antarctica produces the strongest katabatic winds on earth.

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