Correct answer: (c) Both 1 and 2
Explanation
- A
1 only
1 only. Statement 2 is also keyed correct.
- B
2 only
2 only. Statement 1 also holds in the paper’s reading: trade winds pile warm water in the tropical west.
- C
Both 1 and 2
Both. Tropical west-ocean warmth from trades; temperate east-ocean warmth from westerlies — as the item keys both limbs.
- D
Neither 1 nor 2
Neither. Both statements are keyed true.
Summary. Official key is (c) both. Trade winds stack warm water on the western tropical oceans. In the temperate belt the paper keys westerlies as warming the eastern sections of the oceans. Honour that pairing.
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