World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Urbanization is the process of expansion in the entire system of interrelationships by which population maintains itself in the habitat. China has the largest urban population (758 million), followed by India (410 million). These two countries account for 30 per cent of the world’s urban population.

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Shifting cultivation is believed to be the most primitive form of agriculture. It is known by various names:
Ladang – Malaysia
Taungya – Myanmar
Tamrai – Thailand
Chena – Sri Lanka

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Since all industries need raw materials, the distance from which they have to be obtained is an important consideration.  Generally a strong correlation is found between the location of heavy industrial plants and the availability of coal. Coal being a bulky and cheap industrial input, an effort is made to establish industrial plants in close proximity of sources of coal supply.

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Poland is one of the countries with the highest volume of freight traffic carried by railways in Europe. The volume of railway freight in this country is higher than countries like Germany and France though the total freight moved in these latter countries far exceeds the figures for Poland.

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Highways with divided lanes and limited access are called expressways. The expressways are meant for high-speed
traffic and they are built to connect important cities. Such roads generally do not intersect other roads nor they have arterial routes converging on them.

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Pico Basile National Park is an IUCN Category II national park located in the Bioko Island of Equatorial Guinea near the Gulf of Guinea, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It is an important protected area which hosts landscapes and vegetation crucial for primates, which are threatened because of illegal hunting.

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The Collectivity of Saint Martin, also known as Saint Martin, is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies region of the Caribbean Sea. This regional collectivity is located in Saint Martin Island in which island is divided roughly between the French Republic (France) and the Kingdom of Netherlands on a 60:40 ratio basis. The northern part of the island is the French overseas collectivity of Saint-Martin and the southern part of the island is Sint Maarten, controlled by the Kingdom of Netherlands. This marks the only place in the world where France borders the Netherlands. Till 2007, Saint Martin was part of the Guadeloupe Islands, which was also an overseas region of France. In 2003, the people of Saint Martin voted a referendum in favor of secession from Guadeloupe.

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Glorioso Islands are a group of French islands that form part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean under the French Southern and Antarctic lands, an overseas territory of France. They are geographically part of the Comoro Islands between the French overseas region of Mayotte and Madagascar. The France-Seychelles Maritime Boundary Agreement is a 2001 treaty between France and Seychelles which delimits the maritime boundary between Seychelles and the uninhabited Glorioso Islands which are claimed by France.

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Cape Three Points is a small peninsula in the Western Region of Ghana on the Atlantic Ocean. Cape Three Points is known as the “land nearest nowhere” because it is the land nearest a location in the sea which is at 0 latitudes, 0 longitudes and 0 altitudes. It marks the western end of the Gulf of Guinea.

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The Corinth Canal connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, arguably making the peninsula an island.