World Geography - MCQ Test 1 - UPSC MCQ

Gland, Switzerland

Explanation: IUCN has produced and continues to maintain and monitor the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the IUCN categories for Protected Area Management. The IUCN was involved in formation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention), and Ramsar's secretariat is administered from the IUCN headquarters, while the CITES secretariat was originally housed within IUCN. The IUCN has official observer status at the United Nations General Assembly.

Radcliffe line

Explanation: The McMahon Line is a line agreed to by Britain and Tibet as part of the Simla Accord, a treaty signed in 1914. It is the effective boundary between China and India, although its legal status is disputed by the Chinese government.Durand Line is the line demarcating the boundaries of Pakistan and Afghanistan. It was drawn up in 1896 by Sir Mortimer Durand.Radcliffe Line was drawn up by Sir Cyril Radcliffe, demarcating the boudary between India and Pakistan. Siegfried Line is the line of fortification drawn up by Germany on its border with France.

Bauxite ore

Explanation: Aluminium smelting is the process of extracting aluminium from its oxide, alumina, generally by the Hall-Héroult process. Alumina is extracted from the ore bauxite by means of the Bayer process at an alumina refinery

Congo

Explanation: Pygmy communities are partially hunter-gatherers, living partially but not exclusively on the wild products of their environment. They trade with neighbouring farmers to acquire cultivated foods and other material items; no group lives deep in the forest without access to agricultural products

Contours

Explanation:   Isohyets a line on a map or chart connecting areas of equal rainfall Isobar  an imaginary line or a line on a map or chart connecting or marking places of equal barometric pressure Isotherm that connects points of equal temperature at a given date or time on a geographic map Isohel is a line of equal or constant solar radiation . Isodopen a term used in industrial location theory by Alfred wegner.

Explanation: Moraine is a mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity.

Circum-Pacific Oceanic Belt

Explanation: This ring accounts for 452 volcanoes (active and dormant), stretching from the southern tip of South America, up along the coast of North America, across the Bering Strait, down through Japan, and into New Zealand – with several active and dormant volcanoes in Antarctica closing the ring.

Berlin : Rhine

Explanation:Rhine flows through following Countries: France, Austria, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland