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Grasslands and Natural Regions: asked and not asked.
UPSC has asked 13 of these 15. 7 came more than once. 2 have not come yet. Lock the repeated ones first, then read the rest.
First, the concept
Grass wins where rain is too little for forest but too much for desert. Tropical grasslands (savanna) have tall grass and scattered trees; temperate grasslands have short grass and are the world's wheat bowls.
Each continent gives its temperate grassland a local name. UPPCS asks the name with the continent or country.
🔁 Asked again and again (7)
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Temperate grasslands
✅ Asked once (6)
Temperate grasslands
- Veld · South Africa
- Downs · Australia 2024
Tropical grasslands
- Llanos · Venezuela and Colombia (Orinoco basin)
- Campos · Brazilian highlands
- Parkland · Savanna with many trees
Other natural regions
- Selvas · Amazon rain forest (not a grassland)
❌ Not asked by UPSC yet (2)
Temperate grasslands
- Puszta · Hungary
- Canterbury Plains · New Zealand
⚠️ Pampas is Argentina, Veld is South Africa, Downs is Australia: do not swap them. Selvas is rain forest, not grassland. Llanos is in Venezuela, Campos in Brazil.
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