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Q:

Which among the following countries , occupies the largest chunk of the Sunderbans Delta?

A) Bangladesh	B) Burma
C) India	D) Thailand

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Bangladesh

Explanation:

Sunderbans is the name given to the dense impenetrable tidal/ mangrove forest of Ganges-Brahmaputra delta because of abundant sundari trees found here.

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Tokyo, the capital of japan is situated in the island of

A) Hokkaido	B) Honshu
C) Shikoku	D) Kyushu

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Honshu

Explanation:

Honshu is the largest of the four main islands and is approximately equal in area to United Kingdom. Tokyo is one of the five largest cities of the world.

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Q:

The most valuable cash crop of Brazil is

A) Tea	B) Coffee
C) Cardamom	D) Spices

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Coffee

Explanation:

Warm, moist climate (with a temperature of $18^{0} C - 27^{0} C$ and well-distributed rainfall between 125 to 200 cms) and deep, loamy, well-drained soil made of weathered lava are most suitable for the cultivation of coffee. However, Brazil is a quantity producer and not a quality producer.

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Q:

The first oil well in the world was drilled at

A) Assam	B) Japan
C) Pensylvania	D) Former USSR

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Pensylvania

Explanation:

The first oil well was dug in 1859. The oil production has since declined but it retains its name for high grade oil

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Q:

The Savannas of Orinoco Basin are termed as

A) pampas	B) steppes
C) prairies	D) llanos

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) llanos

Explanation:

llanos is a tropical grassland while the remaining three are temperature grasslands

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Which among the following forms of precipitation is different from the rest?

A) dew	B) fog
C) mist	D) hail

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) hail

Explanation:

While dew , fog and mist are formed due to condensation of vapour into water drops, hail falls from the clouds in the form of hard pellets of ice.

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The 'land of eternal spring' are certain parts of ______

A) Tundra region	B) Highland region
C) Mediterranean region	D) Hot-Wet Equatorial region

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Hot-Wet Equatorial region

Explanation:

In high plateaus of the Hot Wet Equatorial Region the temperature is very much lower and so the "Ecuador type' of climate develops typically on the high plateau of Ecuador at an elevation of about 2430 to 3050 meter. Because of the pleasant average temperature of, $13^{o} C$ . This is described as the "Land of eternal spring".

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Q:

Uranus takes _______years to orbit the sun

A) 48	B) 84
C) 50	D) 60

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 84

Explanation:

Uranus is 2,870 million kilometers away from the sun and the time taken to complete one round at a speed of 6.8 km/sec is as long as 84 years on earth

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