Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Geography

Chapter

Fundamentals of Human Geography: Transport and Communication

Question:

Match List I with List II

LIST I Sea Routes

LIST II Linking

A. Suez Canal

I. Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean

B. Rhine waterways

II. Interior Parts of USA and Gulf of Mexico

C. Mississippi waterways

III. Rotterdam and Basel

D. Panama canal

IV. Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

A-III, B-II, C-IV, D-I

A-II, B-I, C-III, D-IV

Correct Answer:

A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

The Suez Canal : This canal had been constructed in 1869 in Egypt between Port Said in the north and Port Suez in the south linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

The Rhine Waterways: The Rhine flows through Germany and the Netherlands. It is navigable for 700 km from Rotterdam, at its mouth in the Netherlands to Basel in Switzerland.

The Mississippi-Ohio waterway connects the interior part of U.S.A. with the Gulf of Mexico in the south. Large steamers can go through this route up to Minneapolis.

The Panama Canal : This canal connects the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west.