Miscellaneous World Geography - Study Mode

[#541] Collective Farm of Ukraine is also known as
Correct Answer

(A) Kolkhoz

Explanation

Solution: Collective Farm of Ukraine is also known as Kolkhoz. Kolkhoz, also spelled kolkoz, or kolkhos, plural kolkhozy, or kolkhozes, abbreviation for Russian kollektivnoye khozyaynstvo, English collective farm, in the former Soviet Union, a cooperative agricultural enterprise operated on state-owned land by peasants from a number of households who belonged to the collective and who were paid as salaried employees on the basis of quality and quantity of labour contributed.

[#542] Nautical mile is a unit of distance used in
Correct Answer

(B) Navigation

Explanation

Solution: Nautical mile is a unit of distance used in Navigation. A nautical mile is a unit of measurement used on water by sailors and/or navigators in shipping and aviation. It is the average length of one minute of one degree along a great circle of the Earth. One nautical mile corresponds to one minute of latitude.

[#543] Which of the following reflects radio waves back to the Earth?
Correct Answer

(A) Ionosphere

Explanation

Solution: Ionosphere reflects radio waves back to the Earth. The low-frequency end of the window is limited by signals being reflected by the ionosphere back into space, while the upper limit is caused by absorption of the radio waves by water vapor and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The ionized part of the Earth's atmosphere is known as the ionosphere.

[#544] The internationally recognised scale for describing wind speeds is ________.
Correct Answer

(D) The Beaufort Scale

Explanation

Solution: The internationally recognised scale for describing wind speeds is The Beaufort Scale. Beaufort scale, in full Beaufort wind force scale, scale devised in 1805 by Commander (later Admiral and Knight Commander of the Bath) Francis Beaufort of the British navy for observing and classifying wind force at sea.

[#545] The world's largest river is
Correct Answer

(A) Amazon

Explanation

Solution: The world's largest river is Amazon. The Amazon is considered the world's largest river by volume, but scientists have believed it is slightly shorter than Africa's Nile.