10 PM Current Affairs Quiz #27 July 31, 2019

Explanation: Masai Tribe:
•Masai are the nomadic tribes and cattle pastoralists who once wandered with their herds of cattle in the Central Highlands of East Africa.
•They are found in East African countries- Kenya, Tanzania. Earlier, they were also found in Uganda.
•The cattle kept by the Masai are the Zebu cattle with humps and long horns. They are treated with great respect and affection and are never slaughtered for food or for sale. Cattle are kept by every Masai family. They are considered far more valuable than anything else, and are symbols of wealth. The richest man has the largest herds of cattle. Cattle are used in payment for wives, and when the father of a family dies, the mother divides the livestock among the sons.

Explanation: The Hausa are a tribe of settled cultivators who inhabit the savanna-lands of the Bauchi Plateau of northern Nigeria. They number around 6 million and have been organized in settled agricultural communities for 100s of years. They live in towns or villages. The ancient Hausa city of Kano has long been a focus of routes and trade.
They do not practise Shifting cultivation as many tribes do. Instead, they clear a piece of land and use it for several years growing a wide range of crops like maize, millets, Guinea corn, groundnuts, bananas and beans. Some Hausa also cultivate non-food crops like cotton and tobacco.

Explanation: Savanna Type of climate is also known as Sudan type or Tropical grasslands. It is confined within the tropics and is best developed in the Sudan where the dry and wet seasons are most distict, hence named Sudan type of climate.
The belt includes West African Sudan, East Africa, and South Africa north of Tropic of Capricorn.
In South America, there are 2 distinct regions of Savanna: North and South of Equator. They are named as Llanos in Orinoco basin spread over Venezuela and Columbia, and Campos in Brazil.
The Australian Savanna is located south of the monsoon strip running from west to east north of tropic of Capricorn.
In India, Tropical Monsoon type of climate is found.

Explanation: Palghat Gap, major break in the Western Ghats mountain range, in southwestern India. Located between the Nilgiri Hills to the north and the Anaimalai Hills to the south, it is about 20 miles (32 km) wide and straddles the Kerala–Tamil Nadu border, serving as a major communication route between those two states. Highways and rail lines through the gap connect Palghat in Kerala with Coimbatore and Pollachi in Tamil Nadu. Palghat Gap also influences southern India’s climate; the wet southwest monsoons as well as storms from the Bay of Bengal cross the mountains through the opening.

Explanation: The Andaman and Nicobar islands (a&n) are thought to be the emergent peaks of a submerged mountain range related to the Arakan Yoma range of mainland Burma. The islands include steep hills, and generally poor soil with little water holding capacity. Flat terrain is extremely limited and the larger islands have long meandering creeks. It is clothed in thick evergreen forests.
There are more than 350 islands in the Andaman group and over 24 in the Nicobar. Only 10 per cent of the area is inhabi-ted by humans. The islands cover a total area of 8,249 square kilometres (sq km) and a total coastline of 1962 km.