World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Outwash fans are fan shaped bodies of sediments deposited by braided streams from a melting glacier. Outwash fans are glacial landforms.

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Guyot is an isolated flat-topped underwater volcano mountain. They are also known as tablemount. They were first recognised by Harry Hess in 1945.

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The Deccan Plateau, India, is located between the Eastern and the Western Ghats. It is the largest plateau in India. It is volcanic basalt beds of the Deccan which were laid by the huge Deccan trap eruption.

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The Nathu La Pass is located in Sikkim. It forms a part of an offshoot of the ancient silk route. It is one of the trading border posts between India and China.

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Mt. Vesuvius is a somma-stratovolcano located in Naples, Italy.  It is universally acknowledged to be an extremely dangerous volcano.

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Sublimation is the process in which water vapour directly condenses into solid form.
Condensation is the process of transformation of water vapour into water.
Evaporation is process by which water or a liquid is transformed from liquid to gaseous state.
Precipitation is the condensation of water vapor in air in form of water droplets or ice.

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Kykkos Monastery is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. The Holy Monastery of the Virgin of Kykkos, one of the wealthiest and best-known monasteries in Cyprus, was founded around the late 11th century, by the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

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Austria shares a border with the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is a landlocked country located in Central Europe bordered by Austria to the south; Germany to the west; Poland to the northeast and Slovakia to the southeast. Prague is the capital of the Czech republic.

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The Czech Republic and Poland share the location of Jizera Mountain Range. The Lusatian Mountains are separated from the Jizera Mountains by the Neisse/Nisa River. These mountains are a major source of granite for building. Wyoska Kopa is the highest peak of this mountain range which is 1127 metres above sea level. It is a part of the western Sudetes Mountain Range.

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The soil is classified on the basis of the proportion of particles of various sizes.
If soil contains greater proportion of big particles it is called sandy soil.
If the proportion of fine particles is relatively higher, then it is called clayey soil.