world human geography section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (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)

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: (c)

Veld, also spelt veldt, is a type of wide-open rural landscape in Southern Africa. Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia.

A certain sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa has been officially defined as the Bushveld by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Trees are found only in a few places—frost, fire, and grazing animals allow grass to grow but prevent the growth of trees.

Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

For humans, population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually quoted per square kilometre or square mile. The world’s population is around 7,000,000,000 and Earth’s total area is 510,000,000 square kilometers (197,000,000 sq. mi.).

Therefore, the worldwide human population density is around

7,000,000,000 ÷ 510,000,000 = 13.7 per km2 (35 per sq. mi).