Winds – Hot and desiccating winds blow from _____ at the rate of 80-96 km per hour and decrease the efficiency of the already meager rainfall in the plains areas:

Related Mcqs:

1. Temperature – with June the hottest month, summer (May to August) in plains is very hot and daily maximum temperature normally exceed 40

   A. Upper Punjab
   B. Upper Sind
   C. Upper KPK
   D. None of these

2. Vast Indus food plains have been cleared of natural vegetation to grow crops. Very little wildlife habitat has been left. Only the animals like ______ and the wild hare occur in these areas:

   A. Jackal, Mangoose
   B. Jungle Cat, Civet Cat
   C. Sclay Ant Earter, Desert Cat
   D. All of the above

3. The reservoir of Mangla is being silted at the rate of 48.27 million m3 per year and that of Tarbela at the rate of _____ million cubic meters per year:

   A. 160.5
   B. 167.75
   C. 170.6
   D. 175.8

4. Humidity – except for about 64 km inland coastal belt, where values of the relative humidity are the highest, especially during summer season with August as a humid month, the relative humidity in most part of the country is moderate, falling below _____ in the plains:

   A. 10%
   B. 15%
   C. 20%
   D. 25%

5. The Forest Act of 1927 needs to be reversed again to bring it in consonance with the modern day requirements of protecting preserving and expanding the country’s meager forest resources and the attended benefits such as:

   A. Water
   B. Wood
   C. Wildlife
   D. Energy
   E. All of the above

6. Large scale reseeding of selected grasses and lagumes can be undertaken immediately in comparaively high rainfall areas of:

   A. Pothwar
   B. Himalayan forest grazing land
   C. Salt range
   D. All of the above

7. Whole of the country, outside the main Himalayan Range, receives a low variable rainfall from 50 mm in western parts of Boluchistan highlands to about 1500 mm in the _____

   A. Himalayan region
   B. Hindu Kush region
   C. Karakoram region
   D. None of these

8. Tarbela dam is being silted at ______ acre feet per year while Mangla is being silted at a rate of _____ acre feet per year due to misuse of their watershed area:

   A. 109000, 42,000
   B. 110000, 43000
   C. 115000, 44,000
   D. None of these

9. Migration flows: Some projects are undertaken to stop the movement of people from nural areas to urban areas / and:

   A. Rural industry projects
   B. Electrification of rural areas
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

10. Although temperature are high in the plains and go as low as minus 12.

    A. November – December
    B. December – January
    C. January – February
    D. None of these