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Answer: (c)

Hydroelectricity is Japan’s main renewable energy source, with an installed capacity of about 50 GW and a production of 69.2 TWh of electricity in 2009, making Japan one of the biggest hydroelectricity producers in the world.

As of September 2011, Japan had 1,198 small hydropower plants with a total capacity of 3,225 MW. The smaller plants accounted for 6.6% of Japan’s total hydropower capacity.

The remaining capacity was filled by large and medium hydropower stations, typically sited at large dams. Japan lacks significant domestic reserves of fossil fuel, and import substantial amounts of crude oil, natural gas, and other energy resources, including uranium. Japan relied on oil imports to meet about 84% of its energy needs in 2010.

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: (b)