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UPPCS World Geography Gap Sheet: Grasslands and Natural Regions.
UPPCS has asked 12 of these. 3 have not been asked yet. Lock the first list, then read the second: it holds what UPPCS has not used yet.
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.
✅ Already asked (12)
Temperate grasslands
- Prairies · North America (USA and Canada)
- Pampas · Argentina (and Uruguay)
- Veld · South Africa
- Downs · Australia
- Steppes · Eurasia: Ukraine to Central Asia
Tropical grasslands
- Savanna · Africa; the 'land of big game'
- Llanos · Venezuela and Colombia (Orinoco basin)
- Campos · Brazilian highlands
Other natural regions
- Selvas · Amazon rain forest (not a grassland)
- Taiga · Coniferous forest belt of Siberia and Canada
- Tundra · Cold treeless land near the Arctic; mosses and lichens
- Mediterranean region · Dry summer, wet winter; citrus, olives, grapes
❌ Not asked yet (3)
Items marked 'asked in other exams' have come in UPSC or other state exams, not yet in UPPCS.
🔒 3 items not asked yet
Temperate grasslands: 2 · Tropical grasslands: 1
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⚠️ 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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