World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Volga Delta is the largest river delta in Europe. Part of the Volga river system, it drains into the caspian sea. It is designated as the Ramsar Wetland site.

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The coastal city Perth is the capital of Western Australia. It has beautiful beaches, national parks and wildlife protected areas. It is famous for its annual music festivals.

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The Caucasus mountains in Europe are located between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Mt.Elbrus is the highest peak in the Caucasus mountains.

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Mount Kilimajaro, Tanzania is the tallest mountain in Africa. It is made up of extinct volcanoes. Uhuru is the highest peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.

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The Koeppen climate classification system recognizes five major climatic types and each type is designated by a capital letter- A, B, C, D, E, and H.
H is referred to as the climate of Highland regions.

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Vinales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in Cuba. It is encircled by mountains and rocky outcrops. It is famous for tobacco production which employs traditional techniques for the same. It is a karstic depression part of the Sierra de Los Organos mountains of Guaniguanico Mountain Range.

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Wave Height is the perpendicular distance from the bottom of a trough to the top of a crest of a wave.
Wave Amplitude is one-half of the wave height.

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Births, deaths, and migration are the three components of population change.
The Crude Birth Rate (CBR) is expressed as number of live births in a year per thousand of the population.
Crude Death Rate (CDR) is expressed in terms of deaths in a particular year per thousand of population in a particular region.
When people move from one place to another, the place they ‘move from’ is called the Place of Origin and the place they ‘move to’ is known as the Place of Destination.

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The settlements in which houses are constructed at the tri-junctions of the roads –  T-shaped Pattern. 
These settlements are found along the road, which meets with another road at the dead end and bifurcates left and right in a T-shape.

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Dispersed Settlements − In these kind of settlements, houses are spaced far apart and often interspersed with fields. However, the market and some other activities in these settlements are centralized where they participate together.