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The ocean currents allow the oceans to ________ year after year.
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Answer: Option C
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The ocean currents allow the oceans to Maintain the same temperature year after year. Ocean currents are similar to winds in the atmosphere in that they transfer significant amounts of heat from Earth’s equatorial areas to the poles and thus play important roles in determining the climates of coastal regions. In addition, ocean currents and atmospheric circulation influence one another.
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Which of the following States of the U.5A are attached to Mexico?
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Answer: Option A
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California and Texas are attached to Mexico. The U.S. states along the border, from west to east, are California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. The Mexican states along the border are Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas.
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Which one of the following is correct? Benguela current flows ________
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Answer: Option B
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Benguela current flows Off Southwest African coast. Benguela Current, oceanic current that is a branch of the West Wind Drift of the Southern Hemisphere. It flows northward in the South Atlantic Ocean along the west coast of southern Africa nearly to the Equator before merging with the westward-flowing Atlantic South Equatorial Current.
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A fumarole is
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Answer: Option A
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A fumarole is A small crack on the side of volcano ejecting gas and steam. Fumarole, vent in the Earth’s surface from which steam and volcanic gases are emitted. The major source of the water vapour emitted by fumaroles is groundwater heated by bodies of magma lying relatively close to the surface.
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A hinterland is
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Answer: Option A
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A hinterland is an area behind a seaport that supplies the bulk of the exports. Hinterland, also called Umland, tributary region, either rural or urban or both, that is closely linked economically with a nearby town or city.
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The shipping canal that connects the North Sea and the Baltic Sea is called the ________.
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Answer: Option C
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The shipping canal that connects the North Sea and the Baltic Sea is called the Kiel Canal. Kiel Canal, German Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, English North Sea–Baltic Sea Canal, waterway in northern Germany, extending eastward for 98 km (61 miles) from Brunsbüttelkoog (on the North Sea, at the mouth of the Elbe River) to Holtenau (at Kiel Harbour on the Baltic Sea).
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Foehn is a local wind of ________.
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Answer: Option B
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Foehn is a local wind of Switzerland. A föhn or foehn is a type of dry, warm, down-slope wind that occurs in the lee of a mountain range. Central Europe enjoys a warmer climate due to the Föhn, as moist winds off the Mediterranean Sea blow over the Alps.
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A river erodes by
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Answer: Option D
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A river erodes by the three given option that is Hydraulic action, Corrosion and Attrition.
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Pedology is a science of the study of
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Answer: Option B
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Pedology is a science of the study of Soils. Pedology is the scientific study of soils and their weathering profiles. Pedology deals with pedogenesis, soil morphology, and soil classification, while edaphology studies the way soils influence plants, fungi, and other living things.
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A sierra is a/an
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Answer: Option A
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A sierra is a Mountain range. Sierra is a Spanish word meaning mountain chain and saw, from Latin serra. The corresponding word in Portuguese, Catalan and Latin is serra.