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Indian Geography and Demographics (18)Physical Geography and Environment (2)

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The highest mountain peak ENTIRELY within India is:Read the answer and worked solution →The capital of Australia is:Read the answer and worked solution →A family clears a patch, farms it with a hoe and dao, and moves on when fertility falls. This is:Read the answer and worked solution →Slash and burn farming in Assam, Meghalaya and Nagaland is called:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The highest mountain peak ENTIRELY within India is:

  1. Mount Everest (which lies on Nepal Tibet border)
  2. Kanchenjunga (Sikkim, on India-Nepal border)
  3. Nanda Devi (in the state of Uttarakhand)
  4. K2 (which lies on Pakistan China border)
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Correct answer: C. Nanda Devi (in the state of Uttarakhand)

Mt Everest and K2 are not in India. Kanchenjunga (8,586 m) is on the India-Nepal border and is India's highest. NANDA DEVI (7,816 m) is the highest peak entirely within Indian territory.

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The capital of Australia is:

  1. Sydney (largest city)
  2. Canberra (federal capital)
  3. Melbourne (cultural hub)
  4. Brisbane (Queensland capital)
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Correct answer: B. Canberra (federal capital)

Australia's federal capital is CANBERRA, a planned city built specifically to be the capital. Sydney and Melbourne are larger but neither is the capital. Brisbane is Queensland's state capital.

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A family clears a patch, farms it with a hoe and dao, and moves on when fertility falls. This is:

  1. Commercial grain farming
  2. Primitive subsistence farming
  3. Intensive subsistence farming
  4. Large plantation farming
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Correct answer: B. Primitive subsistence farming

1. Primitive tools and family labour are used. 2. The farmers shift when the soil tires. 3. That is primitive subsistence farming. _Source: syllabus Geography, Contemporary India II, Chapter 4, Agriculture._

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