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Question 71. The Groups of people inhabiting Asiatic Tundra is known as
  1.    Samoyed
  2.    Vedda
  3.    Kirghiz
  4.    Guacho
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Samoyed
Answer: (a)The group of people inhabiting Asiatic Tundra is known as Samoyed. The Samoyedic people are those groups that speak Samoyedic languages, which are part of the Uralic family. They are a linguistic grouping, not an ethnic or cultural one.
Question 72. Which of the following countries are located on the Equator?
  1. Brunei
  2. Colombia
  3. Kenya
  4. Venezuela
Select the correct answer using the codes given below : Codes :
  1.    3 and 4
  2.    1 and 2
  3.    2 and 3
  4.    1 and 4
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> 2 and 3
Answer: (c)Colombia and Kenya are located at Equator.
Question 73. Which one of the following is located in South Africa?
  1.    Downs
  2.    Veld
  3.    Pampas
  4.    Steppes
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Veld
Answer: (b)Veld is located in South Africa. Afrikaans “field” name given to various types of open country in Southern Africa that is used for pasturage and farmland.
Question 74. Assertion (A):
Trees in Mediterranean region have thick bark.
Reason (R) :
It is an adaptation to long summer drought.
  1.    A is true but R is false
  2.    Both A and R are true and R Explains A
  3.    Both A and R are true but R does not explain A
  4.    A is false but R is true
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Both A and R are true and R Explains A
Answer: (b)
Long roots, thick bark and small-sized thick leaves are some of the adaptations among the plants to withstand a long dry season. Thick bark and small-sized leaves reduce the rate of transpiration.
Long roots enable plants to obtain moisture from great depth. The Mediterranean region does not receive rainfall in summers.
During winters when the pressure and wind belts shift towards the equator, these regions come under the influence of westerlies which blows from ocean to land which causes rainfall along the western margins.
Question 75. Spruce and Cedar are tree varieties of
  1.    Monsoon forest
  2.    Equatorial forest
  3.    Temperate coniferous forest
  4.    Temperate deciduous forest
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Temperate coniferous forest
Answer: (c)Spruce and Cedar are tree varieties of temperate coniferous forest.
Question 76. Consider the following statement According to the Malthusion model
  1. Population tends to increase arithmetically.
  2. Positive and preventive checks prevent excessive growth rate of population.
  3. The basis of preventive checks is moral restraint.
  4. Postponement of marriage is to be emplasized.
Of these statements
  1.    2, 3 and 4 are correct
  2.    1 and 2 are correct
  3.    1, 2 and 3 are correct
  4.    1, 3 and 4 are correct
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> 2, 3 and 4 are correct
Answer: (a)
Question 77. Why South-East Asia has the largest concentration of peasant population at the global scale?
  1.    The region has favourable and healthier climate
  2.    The area is dominated by shifting cultivation due to favourable terrain character
  3.    Intensive subsistence farming is practised in the region
  4.    The area has a large forested area which is cleared for cultivation of various crops
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Intensive subsistence farming is practised in the region
Answer: (c)
The term, ‘intensive subsistence agriculture’ is used to describe a type of agriculture characterised by high output per unit of land and relatively low output per worker. Sometimes it is also known as the ‘monsoon type of agriculture’.
It is found in China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the greater part of continental Southeast Asia. This is why the largest population of peasants is found in this area.
Question 78. The winter snow house of Eskimos are called
  1.    Kayak
  2.    Yurt
  3.    Igloo
  4.    Toupic
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Igloo
Answer: (c)An Igloo is a winter snow house or snow hut built when the snow can be easily compacted.
Question 79. Which the following is/are the characteristic(s) of Tropical Deciduous Forests?

  1. Trees shed their leaves in the dry season to conserve water

  2. The hardwood trees found in these forests are sal, teak and shisham

  3. Tigers, lions, elephants and monkeys are common animals


  1.    only (iii)
  2.    only (i)
  3.    (ii) and (iii)
  4.    All of them
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> All of them
Answer: (d)
They are also called the monsoon forests. Tropical Deciduous Forests thrive where the rainfall is between 70cm. and 200 cm. The trees in these forests shed their leaves for about six to eight weeks in summer.
Question 80. Which one of the following tribes practices pastoral nomadism?
  1.    Pygmies
  2.    Boro
  3.    Masai
  4.    Eskimo
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Pygmies
Answer: (a)
Pygmies are nomadic hunter-gatherers who live in the equatorial rainforests of central Africa as well as parts of southeast Asia.
They are nomadic and obtain their food through a mix of foraging, hunting, fishing, and trading with inhabitants of neighbouring villages. Their cultural identity is very closely tied to the rainforest, as are their spiritual and religious views.

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