World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Evolution involves the gradual changes from simple to more complex forms. Humans are believed to have developed from simpler forms. 
Turnover pulse hypothesis – The theory that extinctions due to environmental conditions hurt specialist species more than generalist ones, leading to greater evolution among specialists.

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Lake Ghoubbet, also known as Ghoubbet al-Kharab, is a cove located in Djibouti. A violent current separated this lake from the Gulf of Tadjourah to form a small bay or coastal inlet. This lake houses Devil’s Islands and Abou Maya Islands. It is also known as the Gulf of the Demons. Ardoukoba Volcano mountains separate Lake Ghoubbet from Lake Assal. This lake houses several fish and sharks coming from the gulf.

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Gulf of Fonseca is a large body of water in the Pacific Ocean located on the western coast of Central America bordering El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Gulf of Fonseca separates El Salvador from Nicaragua. The gulf is composed by a group of many volcanic islands such as Zacati Grande and el Tigre in Honduras.

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If we don’t count Russia in Europe, then Germany is the leading steel producer in Europe. German steel industry is concentrated in a single region, the Ruhr Basin near the western border of the country. The Ruhr Basin with the lower Rhine district is among the greatest manufacturing areas of continental Europe.

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The countries with highly developed industrial and trading functions are also the countries leading in provision of communication and service functions. The maximum development of communications and services sectors has taken place in the economically developed countries of North America and Western Europe. Developing countries with a large and skilled manpower like China and India are making rapid progress in the services sectors due to relatively lower labour costs here. These countries also have the advantage of lower costs in the information related services too.

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The amount of freight carried by railways is a function not only of the route length of railways but also a number of other factors such as the availability of inland waterways and the length of rail routes. In countries having facilities of inland
waterways, more freight tends to be carried by waterways than railways.

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Simien Mountains National Park is an IUCN Category II National Park located in Ethiopia. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and also the largest national park in Ethiopia. This national park covers Semien Mountain Range and it’s the highest peak Ras Dejen Mountain. This national park is also included in UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. It houses several endangered species such as Ethiopian Wolf and Walia ibex.

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Strait of Dover, also known as the Dover Strait or the Dover Narrows, is a naturally formed narrow navigable waterway located in the Atlantic Ocean that connects the English Channel to the North Sea, thereby separates Great Britain from continental Europe. The entire strait is located between and within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) exists allowing unrestricted shipping. Most maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea and Baltic sea passes through the Strait of Dover, rather than taking the longer and more dangerous route around the north of Scotland.

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Lake Esparron is an artificial reservoir, filled in 1967 following the construction of the hydroelectric dam in Greoux on the course of the Verdon River, located in France. Lake Esparron is the third-largest by surface area after the lakes of Sainte-Croix and Castillon. Lake Esparron is an important summer tourism center, frequented for water recreation and for fishing.

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Gabon has the world’s only site known to have self-sustaining natural nuclear fission, at the Oklo reactor zones near the town of Franceville in the Haut-Ogooué province. The site was discovered in 1972, during French mining for uranium to supply nuclear reactors. Geologists noticed an unusually low concentration of uranium-235, leading to the current theory that the site was a natural nuclear reactor two billion years ago. Although the original Oklo Mine’s resources are now depleted, 17 other sites have been found in the same region that once sustained nuclear fission. Half of the reactor zones lack carbonaceous material and in these locations, caesium, rubidium, strontium and boron escaped and were lost. However, in others, uraninite is encased in solidified two billion-year-old bitumen. Some geologists have suggested that this natural bitumen encasement could be a way of storing human-produced nuclear waste in permanent geologic disposal sites.