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What is the biggest island in the Caribbean?

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Cuba

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A continuous belt of urban population progressively linking several cities is known as

A) Metropolis B) Megalopolis
C) Conurbation D) City sprawl
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Conurbation

Explanation:

Metropolis is a central city with the developed area surrounding it while Megalopolis is a region made up of 2 or more metropolitan areas.

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Atacama  desert is located in 

A) dense forest B) grassland
C) Scrub D) all of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) all of these

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Red Indians called this local wind  Ice Eater?

A) Mistral B) Chinook
C) Foehn D) Haramattan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Chinook

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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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Soils, which have undergone gleying and are associated with marshes , swamps or poorly drained upland are called ____

A) calcimorphous soils B) hydromorphic soils
C) halomorphic soils D) sierozems
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) hydromorphic soils

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Which of the following planets is known as Earth's twin?

A) Mars B) Saturn
C) Uranus D) Venus
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Venus

Explanation:

Venus is known as earth's twin because of its closeness to the earth with respect to size, mass(weight) and density.

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Settled agriculture was first seen in China around

A) 6000 BC B) 8000 BC
C) 3000 BC D) 15000 BC
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 6000 BC

Explanation:

Settled agriculture was first seen in China around 6000 BC. The crops grown at this time were rice and millet.

Beginning in about 618 BC with classical millet agriculture, China's development of farming over the course of its history has played a key role in supporting the growth of what is now the largest population in the world.

 

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