World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Sleet is a precipitation in the form of frozen raindrops or refroze melted snow water. It occurs when a layer of temperature above freezing point overlies a subfreezing layer near the ground.

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The Coriolis force is zero at the equator hence there are no cyclones at equator. About 65 per cent of cyclonic activity occurs between 10° and 20° latitude.

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Pedieos River is the longest river in Cyprus. The source of the river is Troodos Mountains and the mouth of the river is Famagusta Bay of Cyprus. It houses Tamassos Dam. It flows northeast across the Mesaoria Plains through the capital city of Nicosia.

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Tides are the periodical rise and fall of the sea levels, once or twice a day, caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the sun, the moon and the rotation of the earth.
Semi-diurnal Tide: They are the most common tidal pattern, featuring two high tides and two low tides each day.

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The differential heating of the Sun at the equator and the poles causes a difference in the temperature of ocean water.
Hence, the difference in heating and surface temperatures play a key role in movements of ocean water.
Under the action of Coriolis force, the movement of ocean currents in the northern hemisphere is in the clockwise and in the southern hemisphere it is in the anti-clockwise direction. Hence it can be said that ocean currents obey Ferrel’s law.

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Cold currents in the Atlantic Ocean:
Canaries Current 
Labrador Current 
Falkland Current
South Atlantic Drift 
Benguela Current.

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The Czech Republic and Germany share the location of the Ore Mountain Range. It is located in Central Europe which forms the natural border between the Czech Republic and Germany. The Klinovec is the highest peak of this mountain range which is 1244 metres above sea level. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This mountain range played an important role in Bronze Age through a developed craft mining and metallurgy culture which further contributed to the industrial revolution in future.

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Australopithecus afarensis are said to have inhabited the African mainland. And they were shorter than the Australopithecus ramidus and had a small skull with flat noses and no chin. ‘Lucy’ the famous fossil belonged to this species.

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The Frisian Islands are an archipelago located in the eastern North Sea of north-western Europe between Netherlands, Denmark and Germany. It is also known as the Wadden Islands or the Wadden Sea Islands. These islands form the estuaries of Ems, Weser and Elbe Rivers. It an environmentally protected wildlife nature reserve areas having natural gas and oil drills.

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Ras Siyyan Peninsula is located in Djibouti. It is located on the Bab-el-Mandeb Straits which connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. This peninsula houses the seventh of the Seven Brothers Islands. It also houses Rocher Siyyan, an isolated while islet. This peninsula also provides habitat to mangrove bushes, seagrasses and sharks breeding ground.