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41 Quaternary activities are mainly related to Geography/Geology
Quaternary activities
Easy
42 Top-level decision-makers such as senior executives and policy makers are engaged in Geography/Geology
Quaternary activities
Easy
43 How does Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) differ from Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)? Geography/Geology
Quaternary activities
Medium
44 Why are quaternary activities described as footloose? Geography/Geology
Quaternary activities
Medium
45 A village lacks internet access and computers while a nearby city has high-speed connectivity, limiting villa… Geography/Geology
Quaternary activities
Hard
46 The Trans-Siberian Railway connects St. Petersburg with Geography/Geology
Land transport
Easy
47 For short-distance, door-to-door delivery of goods, the most suitable mode of transport is Geography/Geology
Land transport
Easy
48 Which railway links Halifax in the east with Vancouver on the Pacific coast? Geography/Geology
Land transport
Medium
49 The Orient Express is associated with which pair of cities? Geography/Geology
Land transport
Medium
50 A company needs to move large quantities of wheat 2,000 km inland to a port every week at low cost. Which mod… Geography/Geology
Land transport
Hard
51 The Suez Canal links the Mediterranean Sea with the Geography/Geology
Water and air transport
Easy
52 Which mode of transport is the fastest but also the costliest per unit of cargo? Geography/Geology
Water and air transport
Easy
53 Which canal uses a system of locks to move ships between two oceans? Geography/Geology
Water and air transport
Medium
54 The busiest ocean route, linking the two most industrialised regions of the world, is the Geography/Geology
Water and air transport
Medium
55 Before the Suez Canal opened, a ship from London to Mumbai had to go around Africa. After 1869, the main bene… Geography/Geology
Water and air transport
Hard
56 The Big Inch pipeline in the USA carries petroleum from the Gulf of Mexico to Geography/Geology
Pipelines and communication
Easy
57 India's first satellite, launched in 1975, was Geography/Geology
Pipelines and communication
Easy
58 Which is a disadvantage of pipeline transport? Geography/Geology
Pipelines and communication
Medium
59 The electronic world of computer networks represented by the internet is called Geography/Geology
Pipelines and communication
Medium
60 A government wants early warnings of cyclones over the ocean and fast communication with remote islands. Whic… Geography/Geology
Pipelines and communication
Hard