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Question 11. Economic density is ?
  1.    agricultural population per unit are of cultivated land
  2.    total number of people per unit of land
  3.    agricultural population per unit area of cultivated land
  4.    Ratio between the requirements of population and the resources made available to it.
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Ratio between the requirements of population and the resources made available to it.
Answer: (d)
Question 12. The ‘Masai’ is a primitive tribe of
  1.    Nigeria
  2.    Angola
  3.    Botswana
  4.    Tanzania
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Tanzania
Answer: (d)The Maasai people of East Africa live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley on semi-arid and arid lands. Livestock such as cattle, goats and sheep are the primary source of income for the Maasai.
Question 13. The most populated desert in the world is
  1.    Thar
  2.    Sahara
  3.    Gobi
  4.    Kalahari
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Thar
Answer: (a)Thar in Rajasthan is the most populated desert in the world.
Question 14.
List I
List II
(Biosphere Reserve)
(Places)
A. Manas
1. Meghalaya
B. Pachmarhi
2. Assam
C. Nokrek
3. Madhya Pradesh
D. Achanakmar Amarkantak
4. Chhattisgarh
Codes: A B C D
  1.    4 1 3 2
  2.    4 3 1 2
  3.    2 1 3 4
  4.    2 3 1 4
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 2 3 1 4
Answer: (d)
Manas - Asom,
Pachmarhi - Madhya Pradesh,
Nokrek - Meghalaya,
Achanakmar - Amarkantak Chhattisgarh.
Question 15. Which one of the following regions is culturally closer to India but ethnically closer to China?
  1.    Polynesia
  2.    Central Asia
  3.    West Asia
  4.    South-East Asia
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> South-East Asia
Answer: (d)
Southeast Asia is a sub-region of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India. Southeast Asia consists of two geographic regions: Maritime Southeast Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia. Mainland Southeast Asia comprises Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Vietnam, and West Malaysia.
These countries are culturally closer to India but ethnically closer to China. Currently, there are around 190- 205 million Buddhists in Southeast Asia, making it the second-largest religion in the region, after Islam.
Thus, around 35 to 38% of the global Buddhist population resides in Southeast Asia. The region has been greatly influenced by the cultures and religions of India and China.
Question 16. A person of mixed European and Indian blood in Latin America is called a :
  1.    Meiji
  2.    Mulatto
  3.    Mestizo
  4.    Mau Mau
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Mestizo
Answer: (c) Mestizo is a type of person with mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Indian ancestry.
Question 17. The correct descending order of the following communities of world in terms of their population is
  1.    Christains, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists
  2.    Sikhs, Christains, Budddhists, Jains
  3.    Sikhs, Christains, Jains, Buddhists
  4.    Christains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> Christains, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains
Answer: (d)
Question 18. When 0-14 and 15-44 age groups population of a country of a country is almost identical, the growth of population would be called
  1.    Zero growth
  2.    Rapid growth
  3.    Slow growth
  4.    Negative growth
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Zero growth
Answer: (a)When 0-14 and 15-44 age group population of a country is almost identical, the growth of population would be called Zero growth, because the fertility rate (age group of 20-40) shall be probably nil.
Question 19. The vegetation type characterised by

  1. a large expanse of grassland with scattered trees and shrubs,

  2. lying between tropical rain forest and tropical steppes and deserts and

  3. flattopped trees, is called


  1.    tropical savanna
  2.    mid-latitude broad-leaf mixed forest
  3.    temperate rain forest
  4.    mid-latitude grassland
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> tropical savanna
Answer: (a)
A Savanna is a rolling grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees, which can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome.
Savannas are also known as tropical grasslands. This type of grassland is found in a wide band on either side of the equator on the edges of tropical rainforests.
Question 20. Over 90% of the world’s biomass is in
  1.    topsoils
  2.    tropical rain forests
  3.    freshwater wetlands
  4.    oceans
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> oceans
Answer: (d)Biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Over 90% of the Biomass is in Oceans.

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