world human geography section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

Colombia and Kenya are located at Equator.

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.