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Ladang is the name given to shifting cultivation in __________.

  1. Phillipines

  2. Mexico

  3. Vietnam

  4. Indonesia


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Shifting cultivation is a type of agricultural in which a piece of forest land is cleaned mainly by tribal people by feeling and burning of trees and crops are grown. After 2-3 years when the fertility of the soil in the cleaned land decreases, they shift to some other piece of land. This type of agricultural practices has different names in different parts of the world. In Indonesia, shifting cultivation is known as ladang.

The climate in temparate grassland in the southern hemisphere is not very pleasant throughout the year. 

  1. True

  2. False


Correct Option: B

Asia has _______.

  1. distinct heavy, moderate and low rainfall regions.

  2.  low rainfall regions

  3.  heavy rainfall regions

  4. None of these


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Asia has Distinct heavy moderate and low rainfall region.
Most of eastern China, North Ko­rea, South Korea, and Japan are included in this region which lies entirely north of the Tropic of Cancer. Summers get rain­fall, and winters are dry—a definite monsoonal trait. Only Taiwan, and south­ern islands of Japan including southern half of Honshu, receive rainfall in winter caused by the southeasterly winds which bring rainfall after picking up moisture on the Japan Sea, East China Sea, and the ad­joining seas. The range of temperature increases in the interiors, as the winters be­come colder and summers warmer.

Warm Kuroshio and Cold Oyashio currents affects ?

  1. Japan and other islands in Asian continent

  2. Antarctica

  3. European countries

  4. America


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The Kuroshio Current is a major western boundary current controlled by the North Pacific Gyre. It brings warm subtropical waters from the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool to Japan exerting a major control on Asian climate. The Tsushima Current is a Kuroshio offshoot transporting warm water into the Japan Sea.

South-west Asia, Central Asia, Siberia are the areas of ________.

  1. moderate rainfall

  2. low rainfall

  3. heavy rainfall

  4. zero rainfall


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

South-west Asia, Central Asia, Siberia are the areas of Low rainfall.

Most of eastern China, North Ko­rea, South Korea, and Japan are included in this region which lies entirely north of the Tropic of Cancer. Summers get rain­fall, and winters are dry—a definite monsoonal trait. Only Taiwan, and south­ern islands of Japan including southern half of Honshu, receive rainfall in winter caused by the southeasterly winds which bring rainfall after picking up moisture on the Japan Sea, East China Sea, and the ad­joining seas. The range of temperature increases in the interiors, as the winters be­come colder and summers warmer.

Areas of Heavy Rainfall gets more than _________.

  1. 200 cm rain per year

  2. 300 cm rain per year

  3. 400 cm rain per year

  4. 500 cm rain per year


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Areas of Heavy Rainfall gets more than 200 cm rain per year. The equatorial belt, the windward slopes of the mountains along the western coasts in the cool temperate zone and the coastal areas of the monsoon land receive heavy rainfall of over 200 cm per annum.

The hottest place in Asian continent is ________________.

  1. Siberia

  2. Israel

  3. Dessert of Gobi

  4. None of these


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Israel has the hottest temperature ever recorded in Asia, 54˚C. The hottest country in Asia is the United Arab Emirates. This, however, is based on dry heat levels, which can be intolerable in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. As far as heat and humidity levels, Israel is the hottest country in Asia.

Monsoon winds influence a large extent of ___________.

  1. Eastern Asia

  2. Southern Asia

  3. Western Asia

  4. Northern Asia


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Monsoon winds influence a large extent of Southern Asia.

The monsoons usually happen due to the differential heating of land and water. You probably know that land heats faster than water. This change in heating leads to a difference in pressures, which in turn leads to currents. Thus, the changes in pressure conditions also affect the monsoons. Normally, there is high pressure in the tropical eastern-south Pacific Ocean and low pressure in the tropical eastern Indian Ocean. But as years have gone by, there has been a reversal in the pressure conditions. Therefore, the eastern Pacific has lower pressure. This periodic change in pressure conditions is known as Southern Oscillations or SO.

Asian continent experience climatic extremes due to _______.

  1. large extent of the continent

  2. large coast lines

  3. Both a and b

  4. None of these


Correct Option: C
Explanation:
Asian continent experience climatic extremes due to Large extent of the continent and large coastlines.
Asia is the largest continent of the earth, that’s why it has regions of a wide variety of climates; some of the coldest, hottest, wettest and some of the driest places on earth.
Factors that influence climate, are latitudes, distance from the sea, monsoon winds, the direction of mountain ranges, and ocean currents.
A large part of Asia lies more than 1500 km away from the sea. The interior parts of the continent experience extremes of temperature.
Monsoon winds shed their moisture to the south of the Himalayas and mountains of Central Asia.
Ocean currents act much like a conveyer belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics.

Mediterranean Climate is characterized by ___________.

  1. Warm dry summers

  2. Cool wet winters

  3. Both a and b

  4. Tropical cyclones


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Both a and b


Mediterranean climate is characterized by hot dry summers and cool wet winters.