Geographical Feature Region
(a) Abyssinian Plateau Arabia
(b) Atlas Mountains North-Western Africa
(c) Guiana Highlands South-Western Africa
(d) Okavango Basin Patagonia
14. Answer: (b)
Pair (a) is not correctly matched: Abyssinian is a plateau in Ethiopia. It is located at an elevation of 1,388 metres above sea level. Hundreds of the world’s only grass-eating monkeys thrive on this plateau in the central Ethiopian Highlands.
Pair (b) is correctly matched: Atlas Mountains,a series of mountain ranges in north-western Africa, generally running southwest to northeast to form the geologic backbone of the countries of the Maghrib (the western region of the Arab world)—Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
Pair (c) is not correctly matched: Guiana Highlands, plateau and low-mountain region of South America located north of the Amazon and south of the Orinoco River. They cover the southern half of Venezuela, all of the Guianas except for the low Atlantic coastal plain, the northern part of Brazil, and a portion of southeastern Colombia. Pair (d) is not correctly matched: Okavango Basin is an endorheic basin, shared between Angola, Namibia and Botswana. It comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded plains. It is one of the very few major interior delta systems that do not flow into the sea or ocean, with a wetland system that is almost intact.
