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Multiple choice geography natural regions climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region natural regions of the world

What type of agriculture is practiced by the tribal people of the equatorial region?

  1. Plantation agriculture

  2. Mixed farming

  3. Shifting agriculture

  4. Pastoral farming
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Shifting cultivation combines farming with forested habitats. It is also called swidden or slash and burn and is commonly found throughout the Amazon and other tropical regions worldwide. Shifting cultivation systems are designed to adapt to the soil and climatic characteristics like lower soil fertility, high precipitation, and fast leaching of nutrients.

Multiple choice geography natural regions climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region natural regions of the world

Who introduced the plantation agriculture in the equatorial regions?

  1. Germans

  2. France

  3. Dutch

  4. Europeans
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Plantation farming involves the growing and processing of single cash crop for export to temperature lands. The plantation is organized on an efficient basis. The land is devoted to single crop and the entire production is exported to temperate land. During the time of colonization, the European introduced plantation agriculture in the equatorial regions. Areas of plantation farming, for the most part, lie near the sea because of ocean transport.

Multiple choice geography natural regions climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region natural regions of the world

The blood sucking fly called the tsetse in the equatorial region causes __________.

  1. malaria

  2. typhoid

  3. sleeping sickness

  4. dengue
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Tsetse, sometimes spelled also known as tik-tik flies, are large biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa. The bite leads to transmission of sleeping sickness and nagana.

Multiple choice geography natural regions climate and natural vegetation equatorial climatic region natural regions of the world

Which of the cities is the largest in the equatorial region?

  1. Djakarta

  2. Buenos Aires

  3. Singapore

  4. Rio de Janeiro
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Following are the cities on Equator.

1. Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (4° 19′ 30″ S)

2. Bogota, Colombia (4° 35′ 53″ N)

3. Kaula lumpur, Malasia(3°8′ 51″N)

4. Singapore (1° 17′ 0″ N)

5. Medan, Indonesia (3° 35′ 0″ N)

6. Guayaquil, Ecuador (2° 11′ 0″ S)

7. Fortaleza, Brazil (3° 43′ 6″ S)

8. Cali, Colombia (3° 25′ 14″ N)

9. Nairobi, Kenya (1°17′0″S)

10. Quito, Ecuador (0° 15′ 0″ S)