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Gujjars and Bakarwals move to mountain pastures in summer and back to the plains in winter. This is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Fenced ranches where one animal type is bred scientifically are typical of which countries?Read the answer and worked solution →Tribal farmers burn forest, farm the patch for a few years and move on. What is this called?Read the answer and worked solution →After how many years does a shifting cultivator's patch lose fertility and get abandoned?Read the answer and worked solution →Shifting cultivation is called Jhum in northeast India. What is it called in Indonesia and Malaysia?Read the answer and worked solution →Wet paddy farming on tiny family plots in monsoon Asia gives high yield per hectare but what?Read the answer and worked solution →Large estates, single crop, cheap labour and big capital describe which farming type?Read the answer and worked solution →The British set up rubber plantations in which colony?Read the answer and worked solution →Large coffee plantations in Brazil are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Wheat farms on the Prairies, Pampas and Steppes are examples of which farming?Read the answer and worked solution →Which farming gives equal weight to crops and livestock, with fodder crops and rotation?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is described as the most advanced and efficient type of rearing milch animals?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the largest region of commercial dairy farming in the world?Read the answer and worked solution →Grape cultivation, a speciality of the Mediterranean, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which country is famous for growing tulips flown to cities across Europe?Read the answer and worked solution →Farms growing only vegetables at a distance a truck can cover overnight practise:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the plantation cropsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the shifting namesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the farm typesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the herdersRead the answer and worked solution →Subsistence or commercialRead the answer and worked solution →Animals by regionRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Farming bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Water vapour in the air varies from zero to what per cent by volume?Read the answer and worked solution →Moisture enters the atmosphere from plants through:Read the answer and worked solution →The weight of water vapour per unit volume of air, in grams per cubic metre, is:Read the answer and worked solution →The percentage of moisture present compared to full capacity at a given temperature is:Read the answer and worked solution →Relative humidity is greatest over:Read the answer and worked solution →Air holding moisture to its full capacity at a given temperature is said to be:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Gujjars and Bakarwals move to mountain pastures in summer and back to the plains in winter. This is called:

  1. Transhumance
  2. Ranching
  3. Jhum farming
  4. Viticulture
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Correct answer: A. Transhumance

1. Seasonal vertical migration for pasture is transhumance. 2. Gujjars, Bakarwals, Gaddis and Bhotiyas practise it. 3. Tundra herders move north in summer. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 5, Primary Activities._

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Fenced ranches where one animal type is bred scientifically are typical of which countries?

  1. Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam
  2. New Zealand, Australia, USA
  3. India, Nepal, Bangladesh
  4. Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Chad
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Correct answer: B. New Zealand, Australia, USA

1. Commercial livestock ranching is capital intensive. 2. It is organised on permanent fenced ranches. 3. New Zealand, Australia, Argentina, Uruguay and the USA lead. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 5, Primary Activities._

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Tribal farmers burn forest, farm the patch for a few years and move on. What is this called?

  1. Mixed farming
  2. Market gardening
  3. Slash and burn
  4. Cattle ranching
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Correct answer: C. Slash and burn

1. Shifting cultivation clears vegetation by fire. 2. Ashes add fertility. 3. It is also called slash and burn. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 5, Primary Activities._

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