MCQs
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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.
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.
Answer: Option C. -> 2 and 3
Answer: (c)Colombia and Kenya are located at Equator.
Answer: (c)Colombia and Kenya are located at Equator.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Answer: Option C. -> Temperate coniferous forest
Answer: (c)Spruce and Cedar are tree varieties of 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
- Population tends to increase arithmetically.
- Positive and preventive checks prevent excessive growth rate of population.
- The basis of preventive checks is moral restraint.
- Postponement of marriage is to be emplasized.
Answer: Option A. -> 2, 3 and 4 are correct
Answer: (a)
Answer: (a)
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.
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.
Answer: Option C. -> Igloo
Answer: (c)An Igloo is a winter snow house or snow hut built when the snow can be easily compacted.
Answer: (c)An Igloo is a winter snow house or snow hut built when the snow can be easily compacted.
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.
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.
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.
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.