Question:medium

If Ocean: Waves, then Desert : ____

Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Water
  • Sand
  • Brave
  • Sand dunes
Show Solution

The Correct Option is D

Approach Solution - 1

Ocean is a body made of water, and Waves are the constantly-moving ridges that form on it. To keep the analogy exact, the desert equivalent needs to be a constantly-moving ridge formation, not just the material the desert is made of. A desert is made of sand, and wind sculpts that sand into constantly-moving ridges called dunes, dunes migrate across a desert over time the same way waves roll across an ocean.

Water and Sand describe the base material for each landscape, a different, more basic role than the one Waves plays; Brave carries no relevant meaning here. Only Sand dunes performs the same moving-formation role for a desert that waves perform for an ocean.

Therefore, the correct answer is Sand dunes.

Was this answer helpful?
0
Show Solution

Approach Solution -2

In geography, landforms shaped by wind action are called aeolian features. The waves on an ocean's surface are one such feature, continuously built and reshaped by wind acting on water. The parallel feature for a desert is the landform continuously built and reshaped by wind acting on sand.

  1. Water: water is the medium the shaping acts upon in the case of an ocean, not the resulting shaped landform, so it does not name the desert's counterpart feature.
  2. Sand: similarly, sand is the medium the wind acts upon in a desert, the raw material, not the landform that results from that action.
  3. Brave: this word has no geographic meaning whatsoever, it does not belong in this comparison.
  4. Sand dunes: dunes are the textbook example of a wind-built landform, ridges of sand built up and migrated by wind over time, exactly matching the role waves play as the moving landform of an ocean.

Sand dunes are the recognised wind-built landform of a desert, just as waves are the wind-built landform of an ocean.

Therefore, the correct answer is Sand dunes.

Was this answer helpful?
0

Top Questions on Analogies

Questions Asked in CLAT exam

Read the passage and answer the question.

Passage (extract): The work which Gandhiji had taken up was not only regarding the achievement of political freedom but also the establishment of a new social order based on truth and non-violence, unity and peace, equality and universal brotherhood and maximum freedom for all. A new order cannot be established without radically changing the mind and attitude of men towards property and, at some stage or the other, the 'haves' have to yield place to the 'have-nots'. We have seen, in our time, attempts to achieve a kind of egalitarian society and the picture of it after it was achieved. But this was done, by and large, through the use of physical force. It may even be that, like a gas kept confined within containers under great pressure, or water held back by a big dam, once the barrier breaks, the reaction will one day sweep back with a violence equal in extent and intensity to what was used to establish and maintain the outward egalitarian form. This enforced egalitarianism contains, in its bosom, the seed of its own destruction. If egalitarianism is to endure, it has to be based not on the possession of the maximum material goods by a few or by all but on voluntary, enlightened renunciation of those goods which cannot be shared by others or can be enjoyed only at the expense of others.

According to the passage, egalitarianism will not survive if
View Solution
Read the passage and answer the question.

Passage (extract): The work which Gandhiji had taken up was not only regarding the achievement of political freedom but also the establishment of a new social order based on truth and non-violence, unity and peace, equality and universal brotherhood and maximum freedom for all. This unfinished part of his experiment was perhaps even more difficult to achieve than the achievement of political freedom. In the political struggle, the fight was against a foreign power and all one could do was either join it or wish it success and give it his/her moral support. In establishing a social order on this pattern, there was a strong possibility of a conflict arising between diverse groups and classes of our own people.

According to the passage, which was the unfinished part of Gandhi's experiment?
View Solution
Read the passage and answer the question.

Passage (extract): In the political struggle, the fight was against a foreign power and all one could do was either join it or wish it success and give it his/her moral support. Experience shows that man values his possessions even more than his life because in the former he sees the means for perpetuation and survival of his descendants even after his body is reduced to ashes. We have seen, in our time, attempts to achieve a kind of egalitarian society and the picture of it after it was achieved. But this was done, by and large, through the use of physical force. This enforced egalitarianism contains, in its bosom, the seed of its own destruction. The root cause of class conflict is possessiveness or the acquisitive instinct.

Which of the following statements is 'not true' in the context of the passage?
View Solution