World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Northern Hemisphere has more land area than that of the Southern Hemisphere. Therefore, the oceans of the Northern are warmer than that of the Southern Oceans.
The highest temperature is not recorded at the equator rather it is a bit north of it.

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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.

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The Cibao Valley is the most densely settled region of the island country of the Dominican Republic in the Hispaniola Islands of the Greater Antilles Archipelago in the West Indies-Caribbean region. It is also known as Valle Del Cibao in Spanish. This valley extends from Manzanillo Bay in the west to the Samana Bay in the east in the northern Dominican Republic. This valley is bordered by Cordillera Septentrional to the north and Cordillera Central to the south. The Yaque del Norte river drains the west of the valley which gives it savanna vegetation and patches of low, thorny bushes. The Yuna river drains the east of the valley which forms the humid, fertile La Vega Real region. European colonization of the Dominican Republic began in the Cibao Valley in 1494 and chief crops are wheat, rice, coffee, tobacco, corn etc.

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Population Growth is the change in number of inhabitants of a territory during a specific period of time.
Change may be both positive and negative.
It may be represented in absolute numbers /percentage.
Change in population is an indicator of economic development, social upliftment and historical and cultural background of the region.

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Compact or Nucleated Settlements − Under these type of settlements, the houses are built very close to each other. Usually, plain fertile land regions have such compact or nucleated settlements.

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Counter-Urbanization: – It is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas. It first took place as a reaction to inner-city deprivation and overcrowding.
Counter urbanization occurs when some large cities reach a point where they stop growing further or actually begin to decrease in size as their population start moving into suburban areas or smaller cities thereby leapfrogging the rural-urban fringe.

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India needs to work on several areas to manage its urbanization:
Inclusive Cities
Urban Governance
Integration
Financing
Planning 
Local Capacity Building 
Affordable Housing

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Livestock ranching is an important economic activity of the areas of commercial grain farming. Cattle rearing is the most important component of this activity in most parts of the world. However in some regions cattle are replaced by sheep, as is the case in much of western Europe, the Mediterranean region, Australia and New Zealand.

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Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia is the longest railway of the world. It connects Moscow in the western part of the country to Vladivostok in the east. The length of this railway is more than 9000 km.

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Eritrea and Ethiopia are the basin countries of the Tekeze River. This river forms the westernmost border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. This river created the deepest canyon in Africa. This river houses Tekeze Dam. This river rises from the Ethiopian Highlands and joins the Atbarah River, which is a tributary of the Nile River.