World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan with an elevation of 3776 metres. It is the seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. It is an active stratovolcano that last erupted from 1707 to 1708.

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Chinook is a Fohn like wind in Canada and USA which moves down the west slopes of the Rockies. They are beneficial to ranchers east of the Rockies as they keep the grasslands clear of snow during much of the winter.

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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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Orographic rainfall occurs when the saturated air mass comes across a mountain and is forced to rise. The principal characteristic of this type of rain is that the windward slopes get more rainfall. The region situated on the leeward side is known as the rain-shadow area.

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Koeppen’s classification of Climatic Regions is an empirical classification based on mean annual and mean monthly temperature and precipitation data. He identified a close relationship between the distribution of vegetation and climate. He selected certain values of temperature and precipitation and related them to the distribution of vegetation and used these values for classifying the climates. He recognized five major climatic groups, four of them are based on temperature and one on precipitation.

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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).

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Porosity – The volume of water which can be held within a soil is called its porosity. It is expressed as a ratio of volume of voids (pores) to the total volume of the material. A soil with high organic content also tends to have high porosity.

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The O – Horizon is a layer which contains organic matter which is either undecomposed or partially decomposed. It includes leaves, twigs, mosses, and lichens. This layer lies on the top of the decomposed organic matter and the weathered rock material.

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Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of Greenland Island, the autonomous territory of Denmark facing the Arctic Ocean. This cape is located between the Lincoln Sea to the west and the Wandel Sea to the east. This cape lie adjacent to Roosevelt Range.

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Limfjord Fjord is located in Denmark. It is a shallow part of the sea which has inlets both from the North Sea and Kattegat sea area of the Baltic Sea, separates the North Jutlandic Island from the rest of Jutland Peninsula. Aalborg is the main port of Limfjord fjord. This fjord is famous for its tasty mussels.