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Questions : Suez Canal is located in which of the following countries?

(a) Saudi Arabia

(b) Sudan

(c) Jordan

(d) Egypt

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez.

The canal offers watercraft a shorter journey between the North Atlantic and northern Indian Oceans via the Mediterranean and Red seas by avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans, in turn reducing the journey by approximately 7,000 kilometres.

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Question : 1

Which one of the following countries does not border Mediterranean Sea ?

a) Libya

b) Malta

c) Bulgaria

d) Italy

Answer: (c)

Bulgaria does not border mediterranean sea, shares the boundary with Black-sea.

Question : 2

In which one of the following regions of the world, are the grasslands called Campos found ?

a) China

b) Brazil

c) North America

d) Eurasia

Answer: (b)

Question : 3

Which of the following pairs of straights and the countries they separate is wrongly matched?

a) Bering strait — Sumatra and Malaysia

b) Gibraltar strait — Spain and Morocoo

c) Bass strait — Australia and Tasmania

d) Magellan strait — Chile and Tiera del fuego

Answer: (a)

Bering strait divides Alaska and Russia.

Question : 4

Which one of the following is a temperate desert?

a) Atacama desert

b) Arabian desert

c) Patagonian desert

d) Kalahari desert

Answer: (c)

Patagonian desert is a temperature desert.

The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonia Desert or the Patagonian Steppe, is the largest desert in Argentina and is the 8th largest desert in the world by area, occupying 673,000 square kilometres.

Question : 5

Fishing grounds of the world are found in areas where

a) warm and cold currents meet

b) there are high tides

c) high stormy waves occur

d) there are low tides

Answer: (a)

The major fishing grounds of the world are found in those regions where the warm oceanic currents meet the cold currents.

The mixing of these waters and the shape of the ocean bottom lifts nutrients to the surface. They are rich in planktons on which fish feed.

Question : 6

Which of the following pairs are correctly matched based on River & Countries?

  1. Niger — Guinea
  2. Orange — S. Africa
  3. Karai — Egypt
  4. Nile — Mali
Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes:

a) 1 and 3

b) 1 and 2

c) 2, 3 and 4

d) 1, 3 and 4

Answer: (b)

The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending about 4,180 km. Its drainage basin is 2,117,700 km2 in area.

Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in southeastern Guinea. The Orange River, Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean.

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