Consider the following pairs: Sea : Bordering country1. Adriatic Sea : Albania2. Black Sea : Croatia3. Caspian Sea : Kazakhstan4. Mediterranean Sea : Morocco5. Red Sea : Syria Which of the pairs given above are correctly matched?
✓ Correct answer: b) 1, 3 and 4 only
ExplanationPair 1 is correctly matched : The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula.The countries with coasts on the Adriatic sea are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro and Slovenia.Pair 2 is incorrectly matched : Black Sea is not bordered by Croatia.Black Sea is a large inland sea situated at the southeast- ern extremity of Europe.It is bordered by Ukraine to the north, Russia to the northeast, Georgia to the east, Turkey to the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west.Pair 3 is correctly matched : Caspian Sea is the world’s larg- est inland body of water, variously classed as the world’s larg- est lake or a full-fledged sea.It is an endorheic basin (a basin without outflows) located between Europe and Asia.It is bound- ed by Kazakhstan in the northeast, Russia in the northwest, Azerbaijan in the west, Iran in the south and Turkmenistan in the southeast.Pair 4 is correctly matched : The Mediterranean Sea is an in- tercontinental sea that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to Asia in the east and
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