Question

Multiple choice questions:

1.What touches eleven countries of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania,
Morocco, Niger, Sudan, Tunisia and Western Sahara?
a. The Cold Desert
Thar desert
b. The Sahara desert
d. Ladakh

2. What is an arid region characterized by extremely high or low temperatures and has
scarce vegetation?
a. Plains
c. Desert
b. Mountains
d. Snow

3.What recorded the highest temperature of 57.7°C in 1922?
a. Al Azizia in Sahara desert
Atacama desert in South America
b. Namib desert in Africa
d. Antarctic desert in Antarctica

4.What is a large oasis with an area of about 13,000 sq. km and where is it located?
a. Abraham's oasis in Syria
c. Al Hasa oasis in Saudi Arabia
b. Desert Lake Oasis in Brazil
d. Tafilalet's Oasis in Morocco

5.What is formed in the depressions where underground water reaches the surface?
a. An oasis
c. A well
b. A lake
d. A pond

6.Who are the nomadic tribes rearing livestock such as goats, sheep, camels and horses
in Sahara Desert?
a. The Kochi people
c. The Gaddi people
b. Bedouins and Tuaregs
d. The Maasai

7.What tribes in the Sahara desert wear heavy robes as protection against dust storms
and hot winds?
a. Berbers
c. Kazakhs
b. The Irish travelling community
d. Nomadic tribes

8.What is a cold desert lying in the Great Himalayas, on the eastern side of Jammu and
Kashmir?
a. Kanchenjunga
c. Mt. Everest
b. Ladakh
d. Nanda Devi

9.What is the most important river that flows through Ladakh?
a. Indus river
c. Brahmaputra
b. Hooghly River
d. Ganga river

10. What is one of the coldest inhabited places on earth that is located in Ladakh?
a. Fort Selkirk
c. Yakutsk
b. Eismitte
d. Drass​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. (b) Sahara desert

2. (b) deserts.

3. (a) El Azizia in Sahara desert.

4. (b) Al Hasa oasis in Saudi Arabia.

5. (b) a well.

6. (c) Bedouins and Tuaregs.

7. (a) berbers.

8. (c) Ladakh desert.

9. (a) Indus river.

10. (d) Dras.