World Climate And Weather — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

The chief industry of Afghanistan is Carpet making. Carpet making is the most important handicraft industry, but it has suffered with the flight of rug makers during the civil war and since the 2001 US-led bombing campaign.

Venice in Italy and Vienna in Austria are famous for Glass industry. For centuries, Venetian glassblowing was world famous. By the 13th century, glass had become a primary export for Venice. Everyone wanted it and everyone wanted to know how it was made. Vienna was also as famous as Venice.

The Appalachian coal fields, one of the important coal fields in the world, are located in U.S.A. Appalachia is one of three coal-mining regions in the United States; the others are the Interior coal region, and the Western coal region, which includes the Powder River Basin.

Mixed farming is a type of farming in which crops are grown alongwith raising of livestock such as cows, buffaloes, sheep, goats.

Taiga vegetation is associated with Siberia. Taiga, also called boreal forest, biome (major life zone) of vegetation composed primarily of cone-bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in northern circumpolar forested regions characterized by long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation.

The process of forming contour strips with the help of stones, grass and soil which intercept the downslope flowing of water is done to prevent soil erosion in hilly terrains. These strips of stone, grass and soil are called contour barriers.

Among the following countries, the only one to have about half of its area under cultivation is India. India is the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and jute, and ranks as the second largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, groundnut, vegetables, fruit and cotton. It is also one of the leading producers of spices, fish, poultry, livestock and plantation crops. Worth $ 2.1 trillion, India is the world's third largest economy after the US and China.

World's leading producer of fertilizers is U.S. Uralkali and Belaruskali are the largest producers of potash fertilizers in Eastern Europe. EuroChem, which is headquartered in Switzerland, is the fifth largest producer by capacity, followed by CF Industries (CF), which is headquartered in the United States.

Phytoplanktons are the tiny ocean plants that live near the oceanic surface. These are responsible for maximum oxygen present on Earth.

Humus is the biotic component of soil and without humus soil is just a rock in crushed form. Humus is the life giving component of soil and is formed by the decomposition of flora and fauna.

As we move upwards altitudewise the density of atmosphere decreases. Lower atmosphere is denser than upper atmosphere Clouds are formed in upper tropospheric level hence are less dense when compared to lower tropospheric level (lower atmosphere).

Hungary is a landlocked country located on the Danube River Basin in Central Europe. Its bound by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east, Croatia and Serbia & Montenegro to the south as well as Slovenia and Austria to the west.

The Himalayas have snowline at 4300 m whereas in the Alps mountain, it is at 3000 m. This is because the himalayas are located in the lower latitudes.

The world's highest hydel power project 'Rongtong' is located in Himachal Pradesh. Rongtong is a 2MW project that is located in the Lahaul-Spiti district on Rongtong Nullaha, a tributary of Spiti river. Located at an elevation of 3,600 metres in a snow adhered region, this was the first hydel project executed for the socio-economic upliftment of the tribals of this area. It is one of the highest in the world.

The maximum amount of energy in the present day world is provided by Coal. Coal power in the United States accounted for 39% of the country's electricity production at utility-scale facilities in 2014, 33% in 2015, 30.4% in 2016 and 27.4% in 2018 Coal supplied 12.6 quadrillion BTUs of primary energy to electric power plants in 2017.

Factory farming is the characteristic of North-western Europe. From its American and West European heartland factory farming became globalised in the later years of the 20th century and is still expanding and replacing traditional practices of stock rearing in an increasing number of countries. In 1990 factory farming accounted for 30% of world meat production and by 2005 this had risen to 40%.

Most of the Japanese industries are located on the Hokkaido coast. The region is gaining attention as a manufacturing industry cluster. The island of Hokkaido is located at the north end of Japan.

Brazil has become the world's largest producer of coffee mainly because the "terra-rosa" soil is very fertile. It is marked by fertile, almost purple, terra rosa, because of basalt present in it.

Extremely heavy precipitation in short time period alongwith hail & thunder capable of bringing flood is termed as 'cloud burst'. Such a phenomenon is observed during monsoons in Uttarakhand.

Downs is called natural cattle country. The Darling Downs contains the largest deposit of rich black agricultural soils in Australia.

Mahogany trees is not a soft wood variety. Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae.

Polar Vortex is low pressure area lying in the Upper Tropospheric level near Earth's pole. The Southward shifting of such a low pressure area bring cold waves in America in winter.

Patagonia desert is an example of Mid-latitude desert. Patagonia is a desert in the rain shadow of the Andes. The Patagonian Desert, also known as the Patagonian Steppe or Magellanic Steppe, is the largest desert in Argentina and is the 8th largest desert in the world by area, occupying 673,000 square kilometers (260,000 mi2).

Steppes are found in South Europe, Central Asia, and parts of South America and Southern Africa etc. The complex climatic conditions like hot summers and cold winters, with an average of 250mm-500mm rain. They are of two types:- Sub Tropical and Temperate Steppes. Mostly shrubs occur here.

Region around the Mediterranean Sea is famous for growing citrus fruits such as oranges, grapes etc. from which wine & champagne are made. Countries like France is famous for its wine & champagne production.

Nights are cooler in the deserts than in the plains because Sand radiates heat more quickly than the earth. Because deserts have such little water vapor in the air, it makes it harder to trap heat or cold in a desert. At night, the sun no longer heats the desert and the heat from the day doesn't stay trapped. Because of this, some deserts can get cold at night, dropping to below 40F, which is definitely coat weather.

India is the largest producer and consumer of Tea. Tea is the highly famous and also highly consumed product in India. In India, tea is produced in the large amount and expert to the other countries. There are many tea plantations in Kerala, Nilgiri, Assam, Karnataka, Tripura, etc. are some of the topmost tea production states in India. Tamil Nadu plays the major role in the tea production.

Wind power is employed prominently in Holland. The Dutch government has set a target of 6,000 MW of onshore wind power by 2020 and 4,450 MW of offshore wind power by 2023. This will contribute towards the Dutch target of 14% renewable energy use out of total energy use by 2020 and 16% by 2023.

Cloves are flower buds with aroma which are used as spice. Their native place is Maluku Island, Indonesia.

Coal, which is almost pure carbons which hardly has any Impurities, which is smokeless and which finds use in the steel industry is called Coking coal. Coking coal, also known as metallurgical coal, is used to create coke, one of the key irreplaceable inputs for the production of steel. The property that really sets coking coals apart from other coals is its caking ability, which is the specific property required in order to make coke suitable for steel making.

The Doldrums are located a little north of the equator, but the effects can be felt from 5° north of the equator to 5° south of it.

The world's first oil-well drilled in Titusville in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in the nineteenth century. On August 27, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

Kalahari deserts does not lie in the Northern Hemisphere. It lies on the Southern hemisphere.

The thermal equator is found in North of the geographical equator. The thermal equator (also known as "the heat equator") is a belt encircling the Earth, defined by the set of locations having the highest mean annual temperature at each longitude around the globe.

No trees are found in Tundra biome near polar region of northern hemisphere. This is due to Frozen ice beneath the surface soil (permafrost) restricts root growth. There are no deep root systems in the vegetation of the arctic tundra, however, there are still a wide variety of plants that are able to resist the cold climate. There are about 1,700 kinds of plants in the arctic and subarctic.

During the night hours, land cools quickly as compared to adjacent ocean. So low pressure develops lover sea as air here rises up. Hence, the land breeze rushes to fill the vacuum towards sea surface as during night high pressure is maintained over land.

The following ores in descending order of their iron content are Magnetite, Haemetite, Limonite and Siderite.

The correct descending order of production of wood pulp of the following countries are Sweden, Canada, USA and Japan.

The Rhur-Complex is a major Industrial centre in Germany.Many of the cities in the Ruhrgebiet used to have a lot of heavy industry. The Ruhr Area is bordered by the rivers Ruhr River to the south, Rhine River to the west, and Lippe to the north.

World's largest synthetic rubber and tyre making centre is Akron. Numerous rubber companies operated in or near Akron, Ohio, making this city the "Rubber Capital of the World." Among the large-scale rubber producers to have factories in the area were the B.F. Goodrich Company, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.