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Question 61. Which one among the following is not a landlocked country in Africa?
  1.    Zambia
  2.    Botswana
  3.    Nigeria
  4.    Lesotho
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Nigeria
Answer: (c) Nigeria is not a landlocked country in Africa. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.
Question 62. A geographic region has the following distinct characteristics:
  1. Warm and dry climate
  2. Mild and wet winter
  3. Evergreen Oak trees
The above features are distinct characteristics of which one of the following regions?
  1.    Eastern China
  2.    Mediterranean
  3.    Atlantic coast of North America
  4.    Central Asia
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Mediterranean
Answer: (b) Mediterrian climate have mild, rainy winter and hot, dry summers and Evergreen, Oak trees.
Question 63. Which one of the following deserts is famous for the deposits of Nitrates?
  1.    Gobi
  2.    Sahara
  3.    Atacama
  4.    Kalahari
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option C. -> Atacama
Answer: (c)Atacama deserts is famous for the deposits of Nitrates.
Question 64. Claims to the historical Macedonian territory have been a bone of contention between which of the following countries?
  1.    Bulgaria and Greece
  2.    Portugal and Spain
  3.    Portugal and Greece
  4.    Romania and Bulgaria
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Bulgaria and Greece
Answer: (a)Macedonian territory is disputed by Bulgaria and Greece.
Question 65. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
  1.    Labrador : Warm ocean current
  2.    Kuroshio : Warm ocean current
  3.    Oyashio : Cold ocean current
  4.    Benguela : Cold ocean current
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Labrador : Warm ocean current
Answer: (a)
The Labrador Current is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Question 66. Which one among the following is not a Baltic nation?
  1.    Slovakia
  2.    Lativia
  3.    Estonia
  4.    Lithuania
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Slovakia
Answer: (a)
Baltic Nations are those that have shorelines along the Baltic Sea.
The group of countries presently referred the Baltic States are Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Slovakia is not a Baltic state.
Question 67. Match the rivers flowing through the cities below:
List I
List II
(City)
(River)
A. Rotterdam
1. Seine
B. Paris
2. Potomac
C. Budapest
3. Rhine
D. Washington
4. Danube
Codes: A B C D
  1.    1 3 4 2
  2.    2 3 1 4
  3.    4 3 2 1
  4.    3 1 4 2
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> 3 1 4 2
Answer: (d)
The Seine is a 776 km-long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.
The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
The Rhine is a river that flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is the twelfth longest river in Europe. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands are countries traversed by it.
The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent’s second-longest after the Volga. Classified as an international waterway, it originates in the town of Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest of Germany at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg. The Danube then flows southeast for 2,872 km, passing through four Central European capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
Question 68. Selvas are
  1.    Equatorial rain forests of Brazil
  2.    Huge Canadian forests
  3.    Evergreen monsoon forests
  4.    Coniferous forests of Siberia
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option A. -> Equatorial rain forests of Brazil
Answer: (a)Selvas are equatorial rain forests. The name was used earlier in Brazil for the forests. Today this name is used as a term for rain forests throughout the world.
Question 69. Which of the following is not correctly matched?
  1.    Maldives — Male
  2.    Indonesia — Jakarta
  3.    Zimbabwe — Harare
  4.    North Korea — Seoul
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option D. -> North Korea — Seoul
Answer: (d)
North Korea – Pyong-Yong (It is the capital of North Korea.)
Question 70. The Panama Canal links
  1.    Atlantic and Arctic Ocean
  2.    Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
  3.    Antarctic and Atlantic Ocean
  4.    Pacific and Indian Ocean
 Discuss Question
Answer: Option B. -> Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
Answer: (b)
The Panama Canal is a 48-mile ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.
The American Society of Civil Engineers has named the Panama Canal one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

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