World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The best dairy cows that form the foundation of modern dairy farming in most parts of the world are native to Western Europe. The most popular dairy cow, the Holstein-Friesian originated in the coastal lowlands of the Netherlands and Germany.

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Sericulture refers to the rearing of silk worms and obtaining silk from them. It involves raising a feed crop, chiefly mulberry leaves, and tending to silk worms and obtaining silk fibre from the cocoons produced by the worms.

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Lake Coatepeque, also known as Coatepeque Caldera, is a volcanic caldera lake located in Central America’s El Salvador. This is one of the largest lakes in El Salvador. This lake houses Teopan Island, which is an important Mayan site.

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Banc du Geyser is a mostly submerged reef in the northeastern Mozambique channel, which is located northeast from Mayotte, southwest of the Glorioso Islands, and off the northwestern coast of Madagascar. It is a disputed dangerous oval-shaped reef in which its ownership is claimed by Comoros, Madagascar, and France, claiming Banc du Geyser as part of the Exclusive Economic Zones of the said countries. France classified this reef as a marine protected area to preserve the endangered flora and fauna of the Glorioso Islands.

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Mount Parnassus is a mountain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside.

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Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries that share the location of the “Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone”. The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike-slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. The EPGFZ is named for Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic where the fault zone emerges and extends across the southern portion of Hispaniola through the Caribbean to the region of the Plantain Garden River in Jamaica.

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The total land under agriculture in Republic of Maldives is about 70 sq. km. It counts about 23% of the total land of the country.

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Of the nine planets, only Venus and Mercury have no known natural satellites. A total of 139 moons, or natural satellites, can be found in the vast solar system.

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Soil salinity is the salt content in the soil; the process of increasing the salt content is known as salinization. Excess irrigation leads to increase in soli salinity since water is absorbed by plants and salts are left behind in the soil and eventually begin to accumulate. Salination from irrigation water is also greatly increased by poor drainage and use of saline water for irrigating agricultural crops.

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Tatra National Park, located in southern Poland, is renowned for its picturesque mountainous landscapes, part of the Carpathian Mountains, and is a popular destination for hiking, skiing, and mountaineering.