Geography One Liners Section 1

 

1. Hutu and Tutsi tribes live in Rwanda.
2. Since the 1970s, the tourist industry has developed in Sri Lanka.
3. Arakan Yoma, an extended Himalayan chain, is located in Myanmar.
4. Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg are also called Low countries.
5. Adriatic, Aegean, and Baltic are seas.
6. Human Development Index is an indicator of a country’s position in the Global Spectrum.
7. Volkwagen is the biggest car manufacturer in Argentina.
8. The port of Gwadar guards the Strait of Hormuz.
9. Among the Southwest Asian countries, the exporter of wheat is Iran.
10. The main oil-producing region in Europe, excluding Russia, is the North Sea.
11. Pakistan is self-sufficient in rice.
12. Truck farming means vegetable growing.
13. The largest producer of natural gas in the world is UAE.
14. A landlocked country is Nepal.
15. The country with the largest population is China.
16. Lake Nasser is behind the Aswan Dam.
17. Isotims and isodapanes in human geography are related to transport cost.
18. Lake Biwa in Japan supplies drinking water for 14 million people.
19. The worst drought for 50 years is experienced by Chad.
20. Lightning is the main natural cause of forest fire, which comes to earth at the rate of 100 strikes per second.
21. 600,000 hectares of Savanna were badly damaged in 1998 in Senegal.
22. Ellen Semple, Mary Somerville, and Ellsworth Hungtion were all geographers.
23. At the time of independence, Pakistan was largely dependent on hydroelectric power from the Jhelum river scheme.
24. The country which is likely to become the most popular tourist destination of all by 2010 is China.
25. The earth’s inner core is composed mostly of solid iron nickel.
26. Ketabatic winds are produced by gravity.
27. Appalachian Industrial area hosts Iron and Steel.
28. Turkey possesses plenty of Mineral Resources.
29. What had historically made geography unique was its attention to systematic description of areal variation, said by Hart Shorne.
30. Indus Water Treaty Projects were financed by the World Bank.
31. Ninety percent of Russia is north of the 60th Parallel.
32. Before 1950, Famine was a harsh reality in India.
33. Waterways are common transport means in Bengal for carrying Jute.
34. Greek Culture and power expanded into the near and Middle East during the Hellenistic Period.
35. Rubber is a crop of Equatorial climate.
36. A pass on the Karakoram Highway which links Pakistan with China is Khunjerab Pass.
37. One of the temperate grasslands is Pampa.
38. The earliest occupation of man is Food gathering.
39. The continent most deficient in the fishing industry is South America.
40. Country registering negative population growth is Germany.
41. A major iron and steel-producing country producing a small quantity of iron ore is Japan.
42. Panama Canal lies in Panama Country.
43. The sub-Himalayas or outermost Himalayas is also known as The Siwaliks.
44. ‘Rab-ul-Kali’ desert is located in Saudi Arabia.
45. Rivers White Nile and Blue Nile converge at Khartoum.
46. Haphazard cutting and burning of vegetation is part of Shifting agriculture.
47. Among the following, Magnetite is not a fuel.
48. The Suez Canal was constructed in 1869.
49. Panama Canal forms the boundary between North and South America.
50. In economic geography, Isotims and Isodapanes are related to transport cost.
51. Aleutian Islands are located in Alaska.
52. Yazoo streams are streams that flow in the back swamps.
53. Zenithal Projections are mostly used for Polar areas.
54. A line drawn on Mercator’s Projection is known as a Rhumb Line.
55. One of the following is also called an international scale: R.F.
56. Lines joining places having equal temperature are Iso-therms.
57. Ideal cycle of erosion was first suggested by W.M. Davis.
58. Desert vegetations are predominantly Xerophytes.
59. Rome, the capital of Italy, is located beside the river Tiber.
60. The Caucasoid have their skin color Brown.
61. The Iberian Peninsula is a part of Europe.
62. The Levant is located in Asia.
63. The “Orange” is the name of a River.
64. Ibadan is located in Africa.
65. The “Majors” are a group of Oil companies.
66. The usual way of showing population on a map is by using Dots.
67. If the R.F. of a map is 1:25000, it is a Two and a half inch map.
68. North West Passage is suitably shown in Cylindrical projection.
69. West Wind Drift is present in all oceans except Arctic.
70. The predominant vegetation of Arid Western U.S.A. is Xerophytes.
71. Hot wind which blows from Sahara to the Guinea Coast is Harmattan.
72. Warm current that keeps the Norwegian Ports ice-free throughout the year is the North Atlantic Drift.
73. Elongated Lakes have normally resulted from glacial erosion.
74. Rubber is a crop of Equatorial climate.
75. A pass on the Karakoram Highway which links Pakistan with China is Khunjerab Pass.
76. One of the temperate grasslands is Pampa.
77. The earliest occupation of man is Food gathering.
78. The continent most deficient in the fishing industry is South America.
79. A country registering negative population growth is Germany.
80. A major iron and steel-producing country producing a small quantity of iron ore is Japan