World & Physical Geography MCQs

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According to Koeppen’s  climate classification system, the Coromandel coast  and adjoining areas of Andhra Pradesh are characterized by As (Monsoon type with dry season in high sun period) type of climate.

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Of all the major oceans in the world, the Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest. The high surface salinity in the Atlantic is maintained by two processes:
the Agulhas Leakage/Rings, which brings salty Indian Ocean waters into the South Atlantic and
“Atmospheric Bridge”, which evaporates subtropical Atlantic waters and exports it to the Pacific

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The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world’s oceanic divisions. It covers 19.8% of the water on Earth’s surface. All of the Indian Ocean is in the Eastern Hemisphere and the centre of the Eastern Hemisphere, the 90th meridian east, passes through the Ninety East Ridge.

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The Continental Rise connects the Continental slope to the deep sea or abyssal plain. It is a major depositional regime in oceans made up of thick sequences of continental material that accumulate between the continental slope and the abyssal plain.

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Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the confluence with the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba shares maritime borders with the USA to the north and north-west; the Bahamas to the north; Mexico to the west; Haiti to the east; Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to the south.

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Savanna is grassland with scattered individual trees. Savannas of one sort or another cover almost half the surface of Africa (about five million square miles, generally central Africa) and large areas of Australia, South America, and India.
Savannas are always found in warm or hot climates where the annual rainfall is from about 50.8 to 127 cm (20-50 inches) per year. 

Temperate grasslands are characterized as having grasses as the dominant vegetation.
Trees and large shrubs are absent.

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In the Desert Biome, the predominant vegetation is xerophytic or drought-resistant. This includes the cacti, thorny bushes, long-rooted wiry grasses and scattered dwarf acacias. Plants have few or no leaves, and the foliage is either waxy, leathery, hairy or needle-shaped to reduce the loss of water through transpiration.

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The word Negro is derived from a latin word known as Nigor which means Black. The main habitat of Negroids is Africa continent and their main habitat is S.Africa that is why this place is also known as Black Africa. Majority of negroids is found in middle and southern Africa which is also termed as black Africa.

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The Commonwealth of Dominica forms part of the Windwards Islands, also known as Islands of Barlavento, part of the Lesser Antilles archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea. The Lesser Antilles archipelago forms a long, partly volcanic island arc between the Greater Antilles to the north-west and the South American continent. The islands of Lesser Antilles Archipelago forms the eastern boundaries of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean.

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The population growth or population change refers to the change in number of inhabitants of a territory during a specific period of time. This change may be positive as well as negative. It can be expressed either in terms of absolute numbers or in terms of percentage.