World & Physical Geography MCQs

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English Harbour is a natural harbour located in the extreme south of Antigua Islands. During the 18th century, the Royal Navy had its operation in this base, thereby received its name as “English Harbour”. It lies adjacent to the Falmouth Harbour. It is best known for Nelson’s Dockyard.

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Cape Verde is one of the four archipelagos of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean. Macaronesia is a collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean such as Azores, Madeira, Canary, Cape Verde. These islands belong to three countries such as Portugal, Spain and Cape Verde. These archipelagos are formed by seamount islands on the ocean floor.

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Canada houses Mount Thor, the mountain with the greatest purely vertical drop in the world. It is located in Auyuittuq National Park on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It has a vertical drop of 1250 metres. The parent range of Mount Thor is the Baffin Mountains.

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Gobi Desert lies in the north and north-eastern China and southern Mongolia. It lies in East Asia. This desert houses several cities along the Silk Road. This desert is bounded by the Altai Mountains, steppes of Mongolia, Taklamakan Desert, Tibetan Plateau, Hexi Corridor and North China Plain. It is a rain-shadow desert. It is Asia’s second-largest desert.

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Loess Plateau is a plateau located in China. It is 1250-2000 metres above sea level. It is bounded by the Yellow River’s Ordos Loop and its tributaries such as Wei and Fen Rivers. It was one of the earliest locations of Chinese Civilization. Erosion of silt from Loess Plateau and Yellow River floods lead to the great fertility of the North China Plain.

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The Kanto Plain is the largest plain in Japan. It is in the Kanto Region of central Honshu. The plain covers an area of 17000 sq.km. Large number of plateaus form a part of this plain.

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Mt. Mayon is an active strato-volcano on the island of Luzon in Philippines. A popular tourist spot, it is renowned for its “perfect cone” because of its symmetric conical shape. It is the most active volcano in the Philippines. It was reclassified as a National Park in 2000 and renamed as Mayon Volcano National Park.

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Cyclone are called by different names in different regions:
Indian Ocean – Tropical Cyclones
Atlantic – Hurricanes
Western Pacific and South China Sea – Typhoons 
Western Australia –  Willy-willies

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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.
The A group represents the tropical climate. It is characterized by:
Average temperature of every month is above 18°C
Annual rainfall is large and exceeds annual evaporation.

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The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s five major oceans. It is also known as the coldest of all the oceans.
It is sometimes classified as an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean.