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The Channel Tunnel, run by the Euro Tunnel Group, connects London with which city?Read the answer and worked solution →In Russia railways carry about what share of total transport?Read the answer and worked solution →The only trans-continental railway in South America crosses the Andes through which pass?Read the answer and worked solution →The Qinghai-Tibet railway from Xining to Lhasa is how long?Read the answer and worked solution →The Benguela Railway runs through Angola to which mining belt?Read the answer and worked solution →The Blue Train in South Africa runs between Cape Town and which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the world's longest double-tracked electrified railway, at 9,332 km?Read the answer and worked solution →The Trans-Canadian Railway, built in 1886, runs from Halifax to which Pacific port?Read the answer and worked solution →The Orient Express runs from Paris to which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which sea route carries one fourth of the world's foreign trade and is called the Big Trunk Route?Read the answer and worked solution →The Suez Canal, built in 1869, links the Mediterranean Sea with which sea?Read the answer and worked solution →How long is the Suez Canal?Read the answer and worked solution →The Panama Canal shortens the sea distance between New York and San Francisco by how much?Read the answer and worked solution →The Rhine is navigable for 700 km from Rotterdam to which Swiss city?Read the answer and worked solution →The Volga, a navigable waterway of 11,200 km, drains into which sea?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Siberian stopsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Suez factsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the transport numbersRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the waterwaysRead the answer and worked solution →Suez or PanamaRead the answer and worked solution →Which railwayRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →World transport bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A geographer calls human geography the synthetic study of the relationship between human societies and the earth's surface. Who said this?Read the answer and worked solution →Who described human geography as the changing relationship between the unresting man and the unstable earth?Read the answer and worked solution →Geographers speak of the eye of a storm and the mouth of a river. These borrow terms from what?Read the answer and worked solution →German geographers described the state or country as what?Read the answer and worked solution →What indicates the level of cultural development of a society, in the view of human geographers?Read the answer and worked solution →A primitive tribe adapts fully to the dictates of nature and worships it. This interaction is termed:Read the answer and worked solution →Benda in the Abujh Maad forest burns patches of forest and farms on the ash. This practice is called:Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Channel Tunnel, run by the Euro Tunnel Group, connects London with which city?

  1. Warsaw, Poland
  2. Paris, France
  3. Berlin, Germany
  4. Brussels, Belgium
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Correct answer: B. Paris, France

1. The Channel Tunnel runs under the sea from England. 2. It connects London with Paris. 3. Underground railways matter in both cities. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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In Russia railways carry about what share of total transport?

  1. 60 per cent
  2. 20 per cent
  3. 90 per cent
  4. 40 per cent
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Correct answer: C. 90 per cent

1. Russia's network is densest west of the Urals. 2. Railways handle about 90 per cent of transport. 3. Moscow is the main rail head. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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The only trans-continental railway in South America crosses the Andes through which pass?

  1. Khyber Pass
  2. Rohtang Pass
  3. Brenner Pass
  4. Uspallata Pass
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Correct answer: D. Uspallata Pass

1. It links Buenos Aires with Valparaiso. 2. It crosses the Andes at the Uspallata Pass. 3. The Pampas and Brazil's coffee region have dense rail. _Source: syllabus Geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter 8, Transport and Communication._

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