World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Shifting cultivation – It is believed to be the most primitive form of agriculture. This type of farming is carried on chiefly in tropical regions of Southeast Asia, Americas and central Africa.
Under this system, cultivation is done on recently cleared land for a few years and as the fertility of the land declines or the forest growth overtakes the clearings, the land is abandoned in favour of another freshly cleared patch.

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Sericulture refers to the rearing of silk worms and obtaining silk from them. Presently, sericulture is almost confined to eastern Asia and southern Europe. Italy is the only major exporter of raw silk in Europe.

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The Lake Zway is one of the freshwater Rift Valley Lakes of Ethiopia. Meki River and Katar River form the primary inflows of this lake and Bulbar River forms the primary outflow. The shores of this lake were inhabited by the Zay people which also supports a thriving fishing industry. This lake is also home to several islands in which one of those islands housed a monastery around the 9th century which kept the “Ark of the Covenant”.

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Gabon is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. Gabon is lying along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the Bight of Biafra, one of the two parts of Gulf of Guinea. Its capital and largest city is Libreville. The official language of Gabon is French. The official currency of Gabon is Central African CFA Franc.

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Chaine de la Selle is a mountain range in Haiti, on the island of Hispaniola. The range’s Pic la Selle is the highest point of Haiti, at a height of 2,680 meters above sea level.

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The Japan is an island country which lies in the North west Pacific ocean. It is bordered by Sea of Japan in the west.

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Stars twinkle because they are point light sources. Passing through the atmosphere, the small beam of light constantly shifts by bouncing off particles in the air. The much closer planets appear instead as tiny disks in the sky. Their apparent sizes are usually larger than the pockets of air that would distort their light, so the effects of scintillation are negligible. Being closer, planets appear as discs, with the shifting of light from one side cancelling out the other.

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Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to the Earth. It is a red dwarf, a small low-mass star, about 4.25 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Centaurus. Because of Proxima Centauri’s proximity to Earth, its angular diameter can be measured directly; it is about one-seventh the diameter of the Sun.

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Magnetosphere is the region above the Earth’s surface in which charged particles are affected by the Earth’s magnetic field. The exosphere is now considered as part of the magnetosphere. The outer boundary of the magnetosphere or the final boundary between the Earth and outer space is known its magnetopause.

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Temperate grasslands are known as Prairies in North America, Pampas in South America, Veld in Southern Africa and Steppe in Asia. Temperate grasslands are located north of the Tropic of Cancer (23.50 North) and south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23.50 South).