Question

In which of the following regions are Pygmies found?
1. Sahara
2. Kalahari
3. Equatorial forest
4. Pampas

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Equatorial forest

The correct answer is Equatorial forest.

• Short people known as pygmies are scattered across equatorial Africa, where they speak various languages, inhabit different types of forests, and hunt and gather food in diverse ways.
• A new study shows the pygmies of Western Central Africa descended from an ancestral population that survived intact until 2800 years ago when farmers invaded the pygmies' territory and split them apart.

• The equatorial region covers only 6 % of the Earth's surface. It contains more than 1/2 of the world's plant and animal species. It is also known as the Rain forest, Selvas, or the Evergreen forest. The equatorial region extends from 0° to 10° in the North as well as South. It is distributed in the continents of South America, Africa, and Asia.

• Sahara is the largest desert in the world. The Sahara is bordered in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, in the north by the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea, in the east by the Red Sea, and in the south by the Sahel—a semiarid region that forms a transitional zone between the Sahara to the north and the belt of humid savannas to the south.
• The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometers, covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
• The Pampas, vast plains extending westward across central Argentina from the Atlantic coast to the Andean foothills, bounded by the Gran Chaco (north) and Patagonia (south).