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Question 1. The following Gulf countries have largest Indian communities
  1.    Kuwait
  2.    Saudi Arabia
  3.    Oman
  4.    Iraq
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Iraq
Answer: (d)
Question 2. The second doubling period of world’s human population was between which of the following time slabs?
  1.    1850 – 1930
  2.    1650 – 1850
  3.    1750 – 1950
  4.    1850 – 1950
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 1850 – 1930
Answer: (a)
World’s population was 500 million by 1650 and in 1850 it was estimated to be 1000 million. The period from 1650 to 1850 was the first phase of doubling the world’s population, from 1850 to 1930, the world population doubled again
i.e., from 1000 million to 2000 million. It is the second phase of doubling the world’s population.
Question 3. Match List-I and List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I
List II
(Region)
(Characteristic vegetation)
A. Selvas
1. Tropophytes
B. Savanna
2. Mosses and lichens
C. Tundra
3. Epiphytes
D. Monsoon land
4. Grasses and trees
Codes: A B C D
  1.    1 2 4 3
  2.    3 2 4 1
  3.    1 4 2 3
  4.    3 4 2 1
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 1 4 2 3
Answer: (c)
Selvas - Tropophytes
Savanna - Grasses and Trees
Tundra - Mosses and Lichens
Monsoon land - Epiphytes
Question 4. The percentage of forest cover is the highest in
  1.    North America
  2.    Africa
  3.    Asia
  4.    South America
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> South America
Answer: (d)Forest cover of Europe>South America>N & C Africa>Africa> Asia>Oceania
Question 5. In the Indian context, the term ‘De-notified tribes’ refers to :
  1.    tribes practising shifting cultivation
  2.    tribes which are aboriginals
  3.    nomadic tribes
  4.    tribes which were earlier classified as criminal tribes
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> tribes which were earlier classified as criminal tribes
Answer: (d)
Denotified tribe in India refers to the tribes who where originally listed under the originally trible act of 1871. They are also known as Vimukta Jati.
Question 6. Match column I with column II and select the correct answer using the code given below the columns:
Column I
Column II
A. Argentina
i. Down
B. Australia
ii. Pampas
C. North America
iii. Veld
D. South Africa
iv. Prairie
Codes: A B C D
  1.    A - (i), B - (ii), C - (iii), D - (iv)
  2.    A - (ii), B - (i), C - (iv), D - (iii)
  3.    A - (iii), B - (i), C - (iii), D - (iv)
  4.    A - (iv), B - (i), C - (ii), D - (iii)
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> A - (ii), B - (i), C - (iv), D - (iii)
Answer: (b)
The Pampas are fertile South American lowlands, covering more than 750,000 km², that include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and Córdoba; most of Uruguay.
The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia.
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and Lands typically referred to as “prairie” tend to be in North America.
Veld is the name given to various types of open country in Southern Africa that is used for pasturage and farmland. To most South African farmers today the “veld” refers to the land they work, much of which has long since ceased to be “natural.”
Question 7. The alfalfa is a
  1.    forage crop
  2.    food grain
  3.    fibre crop
  4.    beverage
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> beverage
Answer: (d)Alfalfa is cultivated as an important forage crop.
Question 8. Consider the following statements and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Assertion (A):
The growth rate of the population in developing countries is higher than that of developed countries.
Reason (R):
A low level of economic development leads to a high total fertility rate.
  1.    A is true, but R is false.
  2.    Both A and R are ture and R is the correct explanation of A.
  3.    Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A.
  4.    A is false, but R is true.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Both A and R are ture and R is the correct explanation of A.
Answer: (b)
The growth rate of the population in developing countries is higher than that of developed countries because the low level of economic developments leads to a high total fertility rate.
In the developed countries the annual number of births barely exceeds deaths because of low birth rates and much older populations.
Question 9. Among the SAARC countries the most densely populated country is
  1.    Pakistan
  2.    Bangladesh
  3.    India
  4.    Maldives
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Bangladesh
Answer: (b)
Question 10. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the code given below:
List I
List II
A. Brunei
1. Bander Seri Begawan
B. Indonesia
2. Phnom Penh
C. Laos
3. Vientiane
D. Cambodia
4. Jakarta
Codes: A B C D
  1.    4 1 3 2
  2.    1 4 3 2
  3.    2 4 1 3
  4.    3 1 4 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> 1 4 3 2
Answer: (b)
Brunei – Bander seri begawan
Indonesia – Jakarta
Laos – Vientiane
Combodia – Phnom Penh
All these are names of south-Asian countries with the names of their capitals.

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