World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Lake Arenal is located in the highlands of Costa Rica. It is the largest lake in Costa Rica. This lake houses Arenal Dam, which generates 70% of the country’s electricity requirements. It is a Ramsar Wetland. This lake houses fish species such as mochaca and rainbow bass.

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Cirrus are thin and wispy clouds, typically found at heights greater than 6,000 meters. They are composed of ice crystals that originate from the freezing of super cooled water droplets.

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Cold front is that sloping frontal surface along which the cold air becomes active and aggressive and invades the warm air territory forcibly lifting the warm and light air. A cold front is associated with bad weather characterized by thick clouds, heavy downpour with thunderstorms, lightning etc.

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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.
The group A is recognised as Tropical climate.
The letter code Af represents Tropical Rainforests (No dry season).

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The horizontal temperature distribution is shown by isothermal lines. These are lines joining places of equal temperature.
Isotherms are closely spaced when the temperature difference is high and vice versa.

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Salinity means the total content of dissolved salts in Sea or Ocean.
The highest salinity is found in Lake Van, Turkey – 330 o/oo
Dead Sea – 238 o/oo
Great Salt Lake – 220 o/oo

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The sediments derived from weathering and erosion of continental rocks are transported to the oceans by rivers, winds etc. Volcanic eruptions also provide sediments. Besides, the decay and decomposition of marine organisms (both plants and animals) also con­tribute sediments to ocean deposits.

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Jardines de la Reina archipelago is located on the southern coast of Cuba facing the Caribbean Sea. It houses one of Cuba’s largest protected areas, Jardines de la Reina National Park and Marine Reserve. It is Cuba’s second-largest archipelago, smaller only than Jardines del Rey. One part of this archipelago is known as then “The Labyrinth of the Twelve Leagues”.

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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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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.
Diurnal Tides are tides where only one high tide and one low tide each day.