world economic industry trade agriculture section 5 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Friedrich Ratzel is regarded as the Father of Modern Political Geography.

Answer: (a)

1. Shensi in the coalfield of China. It is a province of the People’s Republic of China, officially part of the Northwest China region. Saar is known as coal mining in Germany.
2. The Saarland is one of Germany’s sixteen federal states. Its capital is at Saarbrücken.
3. Donetz Basin is the coalfield of Ukraine. It comprises the Donbas Foldbelt, which is the uplifted and compressional deformed part of the Pripyat–Dniepr–Donets (PDD) Basin.
4. Pennsylvania is known for coal mining in the U.S.A. Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state that is located in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes region.

Answer: (c)

Atacama desert is famous for its nitrate deposits. The desert is littered with approximately 170 abandoned nitrate (or “saltpetre”) mining towns, almost all of which were shut down decades after the invention of synthetic nitrate in Germany at the turn of the 20th century.

The towns include Chacabuco, Humberstone, Santa Laura, Pedro de Valdivia, Puelma, María Elena, and Oficina Anita.

Answer: (d)

1. Brazil – Araguaia. The Araguaia River is one of the major rivers of Brazil, and the principal tributary of the Tocantins, though it is almost equal in volume at its confluence with the Tocantins. It has a total length of approximately 2,627 km.
2. Argentina – Colorado. The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The 1,450-mile-long Colorado River drains an expansive, arid watershed that encompasses parts of seven U.S. and two Mexican states.
3. Peru – Maranon. The Marañón River is the principal or mainstream source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing through a deeply eroded Andean valley in a northwesterly.
4. Venezuela – Orinoco. The Orinoco is one of the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 kilometres. Its drainage basin, sometimes called the Orinoquia, covers 880,000 square kilometres, with 76.3 per cent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia.

Answer: (b)

Iron and steel had been a leading industry in Japan and had been considered critical to economic growth by the Japanese government. The Japanese manufacturing industry is heavily dependent on imported raw materials and fuels.

In 2005, the British Geological Survey stated China was the top steel producer with about one-third of the world share; Japan, Russia, and the US followed respectively. However, Japan has to import iron ore from other countries such as India.

Answer: (b)