World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Diego Ramirez Islands, the southern-most inhabited outpost of south America outside Antarctica, is under the control of Chile. It is located in the southern-most extreme of Chile. These islands are surrounded by Cape Horn and Ildefonso Islands. These islands are the important nesting site for black-browed albatross, shy albatross, grey-headed albatross, rockhopper penguin and southern giant petrel.

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Longsheng Rice Terraces, also known as Longji Rice Terraces, is located in China. These are coiling-terraced rice fields built along a slope. It is considered that these fields were built about 650 years ago. Longji means Dragon’s Backbone.

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Johnson South Reef is located in the South China Sea. It lies to the south-west portion of the Union Banks in the Spratly Islands. It is also known as Chigua Reef or Mabini Reef. It is a disputed island, occupied and controlled by China, with ownership claims of Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.

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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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The Shipki La Pass connects the Indian State Himachal Pradesh with Tibet. It has an elevation of 6000 metres. It remains close in winter.

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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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Kouilou-Niari River, also known as Kwila, is located in the Republic of Congo. Its entire drainage area is located completely in the Republic of Congo. The upper reaches of the river till Sounda gorges is called Kouliou River and lower reaches from Sound gorges is called Nairi river. It drains its water into the Atlantic Ocean. The river originates from Bateke Plateau.

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Lake Kivu is located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. It is one of Africa’s Great Lakes and part of the Albertine Rift of the East African Rift. This lake empties into the Ruzizi River which further flows to Lake Tanganyika. Lake Kivu is a freshwater lake and its river bed sits upon a rift valley and its constant interaction with volcano pushes the lake to undergo limnic eruptions of methane and carbon dioxide.

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Koeppen’s Classification of climate is the most commonly used classification of climate. He recognized a close relationship between the distribution of vegetation and climate. 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.

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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.
A, C, D, E are considered as Humid whereas B is considered as Dry.
The group A is recognised as Tropical climate.
The letter code Aw represents Tropical Savannah climate.
The letter code Af represents Tropical Rainforests (No dry season).