World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Mont Ross is an 1850 meters high stratovolcano of 66 million years age located in the Kerguelen Islands of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, an overseas territory of France. Gallieni Massif mountain range forms the parent range of Mont Ross.

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Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan are the basin countries of the “Mtkvari River”. The Kura River, also known as the Mtkvari river, is an east-flowing river south of the Greater Caucasus Mountains which drains the southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus east into the Caspian Sea. It also drains the north side of the Lesser Caucasus while its main tributary, the Aras, drains the south side of those mountains. Starting in northeastern Turkey, it flows through Turkey to Georgia, then to Azerbaijan, where it receives the Aras as a right tributary, and enters the Caspian Sea at Neftcala. The total length of the river is 1,515 kilometres.

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Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras are the countries that share the location of the “Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System”. The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, also popularly known as the Great Mayan Reef or Great Maya Reef, is a marine region that stretches over the coasts of four countries – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras – from Isla Contoy at the northern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula south to Belize, Guatemala and the Bay Islands of Honduras. The reef system includes various protected areas and parks including the Belize Barrier Reef, Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park, Hol Chan Marine Reserve (Belize), Sian Ka’an biosphere reserve, and the Cayos Cochinos Marine Park. Belize’s coastline, including the Belize Barrier Reef, is home to approximately 30% of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.

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The Republic of Ireland is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. United Kingdom lies to its immediate east.

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The Republic of Kenya is located in eastern Africa. The equator passes through Kenya and divides it in almost two equal halfs.

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The total area of Republic of Malawi is about 118,484 sq. km. The total forest cover of the country is about 34.4%.

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In geology, a nappe or thrust sheet is a large sheet like body of rock that has been moved more than 2 km or 5 km from its original position by faulting or folding. They form when a mass of rock is forced (or “thrust”) over another rock mass, typically on a low angle fault plane. The resulting structure may include large-scale recumbent folds, shearing along the fault plane.

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The distance between two longitude lines is called gore. A gore is the curved surface which lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe. It refers to a sector of a curved surface. It is possible to flatten it to a plane surface with little distortion.

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The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal).

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A land cyclone is a rare weather system with a low-pressure center that forms over land, occurring only 14 times since 1891. A mesocyclone is an air vortex within a convective storm, with a diameter of 3.2 to 9.7 km. A subtropical cyclone combines features of tropical and extratropical cyclones and forms at lower sea surface temperatures than tropical cyclones. Wave cyclones, or extratropical cyclones, are low-pressure areas that develop in middle and high latitudes, primarily between 30° and 60° latitude.