world economic industry trade agriculture section 2 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

1. Cape Horn is a rocky headland on Hornos Island, in southern Chile’s Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It’s surrounded by wild seas off the southern tip of South America where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet.
2. Cape Comorin is a rocky headland on the Indian Ocean in Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India, forming the southernmost point of the subcontinent. It is the southern tip of the Cardamom Hills, an extension of the Western Ghats range along the west coast of India.
3. The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.The 
4. Cape York Peninsula is a large remote peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia and one of the last remaining wilderness areas on Earth.

Answer: (c)

The world’s largest producers of natural diamonds are Russia, Congo and Botswana, all together accounting for 60% of the global diamond production. The government-run super-major ALROSA accounts for approximately 95% of all Russian diamond production.

Answer: (d)

Mullaperiyar dam or Mullaperiyar dam is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar River in the Kerala State of India. It is located881 m (2890 ft) above mean sea level on the Cardamom Hills of the Western Ghats in Thekkady, Idukki district of Kerala.

It was constructed between 1887 and 1895 by the British Government to divert water Eastwards to the Madras Presidency area (the present-day Tamil Nadu).

Earlier known as the Periyar dam as it was basically meant to dam the Periyar river, the present name Mullaperiyar is derived because it is located at the confluence of Mullayar river and Periyar river.

The committee, headed by Justice AS Anand, former Chief Justice of India, was appointed by a five-member bench of the Supreme Court. The Periyar is an intrastate river and flows only through Kerala.

Answer: (d)

Ukraine is not located in between Caspian Sea and the Black Sea.

Answer: (a)

The factors responsible for the decrease of per capita holding of cultivated land in India are

1. Rapid rate of increase of population.
2. Practice of dividing land equally among the heirs.