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The Radcliff Line demarcates the boundary between
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Answer: Option B
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The Radcliff Line demarcates the boundary between India and Pakistan. The demarcation line was published on 17 August 1947 upon the Partition of India.
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World's highest urban density of population occurs in ________
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Answer: Option B
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World's highest urban density of population occurs in Tokyo. As has been the case for nearly six decades, Tokyo remains the largest urban area in the world, with approximately 37 million.
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International date line is a/an
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Answer: Option C
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International date line is a Zigzag line. The International Date Line is an imaginary zig zag line on the surface of the earth roughly following the 180° meridian. Crossing the date line causes the date to be changed exactly by one day. Crossing the line from East to West , one loses a day . And from West to East, one gains a day.
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The latitude also known as the
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Answer: Option D
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The latitude also known as the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Circle is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33´ 39" (or 66.56083°) north of the Equator and is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. Everything north of this circle is known as the Arctic, and the zone just to the south of this circle is the Northern Temperate Zone.
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Boll-Weevil is a pest that attack the ________ crop.
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Answer: Option B
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Boll-Weevil is a pest that attack the Cotton crop. The weevil is a pest which primarily attacks flowers and bolls. A boll weevil can destroy the cotton lint with its feces and consume the cotton seeds.
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Ferrel's Law is associated with the
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Answer: Option D
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Ferrel's Law is associated with the Direction of winds. "If a body moves in any direction on the earth's surface, there is a deflecting force arising from the earth's rotation, which deflects it to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere."
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The trans-continental railway in South America links
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Answer: Option D
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The trans-continental railway in South America links Valparaiso and Buenos Aires.
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The Shatt-al-Arab waterway is associated with the
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Answer: Option A
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The Shatt-al-Arab waterway is associated with the Euphrates and Tigris. Shatt al-Arab is a river of some 200 km (120 mi) in length, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and the Tigris in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq.
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The busiest inland water-way of Europe is the Rhine. Its preeminence as a waterway rests on the fact that
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The busiest inland water-way of Europe is the Rhine. Its preeminence as a waterway rests on the fact that its course is never frozen.
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Trans-continental railways have played an Important role in
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Answer: Option B
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Trans-continental railways have played an Important role in Development of resources in the interior of continents. The development of railroads was one of the most important phenomena of the Industrial Revolution. With their formation, construction and operation, they brought profound social, economic and political change to a country only 50 years old.