World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma or Tacoma, is a large active stratovolcano located 59 miles south-southeast of Seattle, USA in Mount Rainier National Park.
Mount Etna, or Etna, is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate.
Parícutin is a cinder cone volcano located in the Mexican state of Michoacán, near the city of Uruapan and about 322 kilometers west of Mexico City. The volcano surged suddenly from the cornfield of local farmer Dionisio Pulido in 1943, attracting both popular and scientific attention.
Taal Volcano is a complex volcano located on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the second most active volcano in the Philippines with 33 historical eruptions. All of these eruptions are concentrated on Volcano Island, an island near the middle of Taal Lake.

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The Aleutian Islands, having 57 volcanoes, forms the northernmost part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Islands are located as a dividing line between the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean.

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Engilchek Glacier is the largest and the fastest moving glacier in Kyrgyzstan. It is located in the Central Tian Shan Mountains of Issyk-Kul region of northeastern Kyrgyzstan. Also, it is the sixth longest non polar glacier in the world.

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The Murray River is the longest river in Australia. It is approximately 2,508 km long. It rises in the Australian Alps and flows through New South Wales and Victoria and empties into the Indian Ocean.

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Alfred Wegener stated that the Centrifugal force and the Tidal force was responsible the Continental Drift.

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Processes which take place on the surface of the Earth are called as exogenic processes. Weathering, mass wasting, erosion and deposition are exogenic processes.

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The impact of raindrops on soil leads to splash erosion. It leads to loosening of the soil.

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Abrasion or corrasion includes the process of the cutting of the rock surface by weathered rock particles that are carried by the wind. The Sphinx of Egypt is a result of this process of the wind.

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Palsas are cryogenic landforms which are associated with peat mounds with permanently frozen peat core.

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Ait is a small island formed due to the deposition of sediments in water. The river islands found on river Thames and its tributaries in England are called as Aits.