World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Dihang Pass is located in Arunachal Pradesh. It connects Arunachal Pradesh to Myanmar (Mandalaya). It is at an elevation of more than 4000 metres.

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The Gobi Desert is a large desert is East Asia. It covers parts of Northern and Northeastern China and of Southern Mongolia. It has an area of 1,295,000 square kilometres. It is a cold Desert.

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The spatial distribution of salinity in the Indian Ocean is more variable and complex than the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Arabian sea records higher salinity (36%) than the Bay of Bengal,due to higher rate of evaporation, less humid conditions and low influx of freshwater.

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Tides are the periodical rise and fall of the sea levels, once or twice a day, caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the sun, the moon and the rotation of the earth.
Diurnal Tides are tides where only one high tide and one low tide each day.

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Ocean currents are the large masses of surface water that circulate in regular patterns around the oceans.
Impact of Ocean Currents:
Local Climate
Rains and Desert Formation
Fishing grounds
Navigation

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Fram Strait is a sea passage located between Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark and the Svalbard Archipelago of Norway. This strait is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north; the Greenland Sea and the Norwegian Sea to the south. Fram Strait is the only deep passage between the Arctic Ocean and World Oceans. It is a main wintering ground for the “critically endangered” Bowhead whales.

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Bedouins – They are nomadic tribesmen of Arab stock in Africa and Southwest Asia. Camels are the essential animals of
Bedouins. They also keep horses, sheep and goats. Racially they represent a mixture of the Southwest Asians and the
Mediterranean people.

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Branches of Agriculture: 
Vermiculture – Agriculture of Earth worm
Tissue culture – Production of a new plant from plant cells
Apiculture – Study of honey bee.
Horticulture – Study of fruits and vegetables.
Pomology – Study of fruits.
Sericulture – Rearing of silk worm.
Moriculture – Production of mulberry.
Viti culture – Production of grapes

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China, US, India, Brazil and Turkey are the chief tobacco producers in the world together accounting for more than 50 per cent of the total world production. China alone contributes about 25 per cent. The chief tobacco-growing areas of China lie
along the southeastern coast.

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Cotacachi-Cayapas Ecological Reserve is located in Ecuador adjacent to Cotacachi Volcano. This nature reserve houses Andean and sub-tropical rainforests. The reserve is particularly important because it safeguards one of the few remaining examples of Ecuador’s coastal rainforest, a much-threatened ecosystem which forms part of the Choco; an internationally recognised bio-region which extends from Southern Panama to northern Peru and has been rated as a global biodiversity hotspot. This nature reserve houses Cuicocha Lake, a volcanic crater lake.