World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Bahamas is a nation located in the Lucayan Archipelago in the West Indies region of the Caribbean. Lucayan Archipelago is also known as Bahamas Archipelago. The Bahamas occupies 97% of Lucayan Archipelago.

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The Maya Mountains are a mountain range located in Belize. The highest peak of this range is Doyle’s Delight which is 1124 metres above sea level. This mountain range houses Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary. It is a location of a number of Mayan ruin sites. These mountains are made of the Paleozoic era of granite and sediments.

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Alert in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world. It is located to the west of Cape Sheridon, the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island on the shore of the Lincoln Sea. The settlement is surrounded by rugged hills and valleys.

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Mt. Everest is located on the borders between Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Mt. Everest is the highest mountain in the Earth with an elevation of 8848 metres above sea level. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953. It is a part of the Himalayan Mountain Ranges.

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Olympus Mons is the highest known mountain in the entire solar system. It is located on Mars. It is approximately 26 kilometres in elevation. It is also the highest volcano in the Solar system.

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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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Mount Merapi which means Fire Mountain, is an active strato-volcano in Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia. In light of the hazards that Merapi poses to populated areas, it has been designated as one of the Decade Volcanoes.

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Troposphere is the lowermost layer of the earth’s atmosphere. The height of troposphere is about 18 km on the equator and 8 km on the poles. The thickness of the troposphere is greatest at the equator. It contains dust particles and water vapour. All the weather phenomena takes place in this layer. This layer is called ‘changing sphere’ or troposphere because the air never remains static in this layer.

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The closest point to the Sun in a planet’s orbit is called perihelion.
The position of the Earth when it is at the greatest distance from the sun is called the Aphelion.

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The effect of rotation of earth on direction of winds is called the Coriolis effect. It causes deflection in the direction of winds. The quantity of the force keeps increasing with increasing distances from the equatorial belt. The winds blowing in the Northern Hemisphere are deflected to their right and those blowing in the Southern Hemisphere to their left under the Coriolis effect. This principle of deflection is called Ferrel’s Law.