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GATE 2024 AR — Architecture – Question 17

Environmental Planning and Landscape · Urban Heat Islands · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which statement correctly describes an urban cool island?

  1. A city cannot contain cool and heat islands simultaneously.
  2. Surrounding rural air is warmer than the relevant urban area.
  3. Surrounding rural air is cooler than the urban area.
  4. It occurs only on snow-clad mountains.

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Correct answer: (B) Surrounding rural air is warmer than the relevant urban area.

Explanation

A cool-island condition means the relevant urban area has lower temperature than its rural reference, so B. It can vary spatially and temporally and can coexist with other warmer urban locations. The opposite temperature contrast describes a heat island.

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