{"id":1177,"date":"2023-06-22T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T08:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2024-04-03T07:01:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:31:16","slug":"q-which-one-of-the-following-pairs-is-correctly-matched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-which-one-of-the-following-pairs-is-correctly-matched","title":{"rendered":"Q. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Geographical Region&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Feature<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"mcq wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abyssinian Plateau\u00a0 \u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a0Arabia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Atlas Mountains\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a0North\u00adWestern Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guiana Highlands\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a0South\u00adWestern Africa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Okavango Basin\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 :\u00a0 \u00a0Patagonia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer: (b) Atlas Mountains&nbsp;:&nbsp;&nbsp;North\u00adWestern Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Abyssinian Plateau<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abyssinian Plateau is situated in&nbsp;<strong>Ethiopia (Africa)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is also known by other names like&nbsp;<strong>Altipiano Etiopico, Amhara Plateau, Ethiopian Massif, and Ethiopian Plateau<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethiopia was once called Abyssinia, hence the name&nbsp;Abyssinian Plateau.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The plateau is&nbsp;<strong>1290-3000 m<\/strong>&nbsp;above&nbsp;sea level.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A number of rivers cross the plateau, the most prominent being the&nbsp;<strong>Blue Nile<\/strong>, rising from&nbsp;<strong>Lake Tana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Atlas Mountains<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range located in the&nbsp;<strong>Maghreb<\/strong>, also known as&nbsp;<strong>Northwest Africa<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>Greater Maghreb,<\/strong>&nbsp;and historically as the&nbsp;<strong>Barbary Coast<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Mediterranean<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Atlantic coastlines<\/strong>&nbsp;get separated from the&nbsp;<strong>Sahara Desert<\/strong>&nbsp;by the&nbsp;Atlas Mountains.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Toubkal<\/strong>&nbsp;(4167 m) is the highest peak of this mountain range and is situated in&nbsp;<strong>Morocco<\/strong>. Apart from Morocco, the mountains are located in&nbsp;<strong>Algeria<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Tunisia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Berber populations<\/strong>&nbsp;are native to the Atlas Mountains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Guiana Highlands<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Guiana Highlands are located to the&nbsp;<strong>north of Amazon<\/strong>&nbsp;and to the&nbsp;<strong>south of the Orinoco River<\/strong>, in&nbsp;<strong>South America<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Guiana Highlands cover parts of&nbsp;<strong>Venezuela, Guianas, Brazil, and Colombia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The eastern part&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<strong>Amazon lowland<\/strong>&nbsp;separates the&nbsp;<strong>Brazilian and Guiana Highlands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The highlands comprise a&nbsp;<strong>basement of rolling hilly mountains, low mountains, and tabular plateaus<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The highest elevation of the Guiana Highlands is&nbsp;<strong>Mount Roraima<\/strong>&nbsp;(2772 m).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Okavango Basin<\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Okavango Basin covers the portions of the following&nbsp;<strong>Southwestern African countries<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The basin derives its name from the chief stream in the basin, the<strong>&nbsp;Okavango River<\/strong>. The Okavango river forms the&nbsp;<strong>Okavango delta in Botswana<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The basin is formed by the confluence of the&nbsp;<strong>Cuito<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Cubango<\/strong>&nbsp;rivers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;<strong>Nwako salt pan<\/strong>&nbsp;lies to the south of the basin and the&nbsp;<strong>Makdadikgadi salt pan<\/strong>&nbsp;lies to the southeast of the basin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_5c8e55-54 .kt-block-spacer{height:40px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-_5c8e55-54 .kt-divider{border-top-width:2px;border-top-color:#eee;width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-_5c8e55-54\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\"\/><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geographical Region&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Feature Answer: (b) Atlas Mountains&nbsp;:&nbsp;&nbsp;North\u00adWestern Africa Abyssinian Plateau Atlas Mountains Guiana Highlands Okavango Basin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[37],"years":[60],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-geography","years-60"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":37,"label":"Geography"}],"years":[{"value":60,"label":"2013"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":37,"name":"Geography","slug":"geography","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":37,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":167,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}