Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched ? (Country) — (Iron-Ore Producing Area)
- (a)Kazakhstan — Karaganda
- (b)Ukrain — Krivoy Rog
- (c)Germany — Normendy
- (d)France — Pyrenees
Correct — C, Germany — Normandy is the wrongly matched pair. Normandy is a region of northern France, not Germany, so it cannot be Germany's iron-ore area. Germany's iron-ore and heavy-industry heartland is the Ruhr region (with iron ore also at Salzgitter). Because this is a 'NOT correctly matched' question, the odd pair (c) is the answer.
- (a)Kazakhstan — Karaganda — Correctly matched — Karaganda in Kazakhstan is a major coal-and-iron industrial region, so it is not the exception the question asks for.
- (b)Ukrain — Krivoy Rog — Correctly matched — Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih) in Ukraine is one of the world's great iron-ore basins, so this pair is right.
- (d)France — Pyrenees — Treated as correctly matched — France has iron-ore associations including the Pyrenees region, so it is not the mismatch; the unambiguous error is Germany-Normandy.
This tests world economic geography — matching countries to their well-known iron-ore or mining regions. Krivoy Rog (Ukraine) and Karaganda (Kazakhstan) are classic Eurasian iron/coal belts. France's iron ore is chiefly associated with Lorraine, with historic mining also in the Pyrenees and Normandy. Germany's iron-and-steel core is the Ruhr (and Salzgitter) — never Normandy, which lies in France.
The trap turns on geography, not mineralogy: Normandy sounds like it could be an ore field, but it is a French region, so pairing it with Germany is the giveaway error. In a 'NOT correctly matched' question you must find the single wrong pair — check each country against its region rather than the mineral.
- Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih), Ukraine — one of the world's largest iron-ore basins
- Karaganda, Kazakhstan — major coal-and-iron industrial region
- Normandy is a region of France, not Germany — the mismatch in this question
- Germany's iron-and-steel heartland is the Ruhr (with iron ore at Salzgitter)
Only Germany-Normandy is mismatched → answer (c).
- Being distracted by the mineral when the error is really a mis-located region
- Assuming an unfamiliar-sounding place (Normandy) is an ore field rather than checking its country
Country-to-region (or place-to-mineral) matching is asked as 'which is NOT correctly matched' — verify the geography of each region, and know the flagship ore/coal belt for each major producer.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih), a famous iron-ore producing area, is located in which country?
- (a)Russia
- (b)Ukraine
- (c)Poland
- (d)Kazakhstan
Answer(b) Ukraine — Krivoy Rog is one of Ukraine's, and the world's, major iron-ore basins.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The Ruhr region, famous for iron and steel, lies in which country?
- (a)France
- (b)Belgium
- (c)Germany
- (d)Netherlands
Answer(c) Germany — the Ruhr is Germany's coal, iron and steel industrial heartland.