world economic industry trade agriculture section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (d)

Above all are the capitals of the countries except New Zealand, with Wellington, as capital.

Answer: (a)

Long-staple cotton is any cotton with fibres from 1 1/8' to 2 1/2' long. Outstanding types of this cotton are Pima, Egyptian, and Sea Island cotton. Egyptian cotton is a type of long-staple cotton, which is largely grown in the Nile River Valley.

Sea Island cotton is long-staple cotton grown in the Sea Islands, which are off the southern coast of Georgia, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean. Pima cotton is long-staple cotton grown in the southwest region of the United States.

Answer: (d)

Asia is the main source of natural rubber. The three largest producing countries of natural rubber are Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. They together account for around 72% of natural rubber production of the world.

Answer: (a)

Kimberley is famous for diamond mining. The Big Hole, Open Mine or Kimberley Mine is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the largest hole excavated by hand.

Answer: (a)

The Sun Belt is a region of the United States which became synonymous with the southern third of the nation in the early 1970s when there was a shift in this period from the previously economically and politically important northeast to the south and west.

Industries such as aerospace, defence, and oil boomed in the Sun Belt as companies took advantage of the low involvement of labour unions in the south (due to more recent industrialization; 1930s through 1950s) and enjoyed the proximity to many U.S. military installations that were the major consumers of their products.

The oil industry helped propel southern states such as Texas and Louisiana forward.