World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The largest lake of Republic of Malawi is Malawi lake. It is about 1/5th of the total area of the country. It has a total area of about 29,600 sq. km. This lake is also known as the calendar lake due to its dimensions being 365 miles long and 52 miles wide.

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The highest peak of Republic of Mali is Mount Hombori Tondo. It is located in the Mopti region of Mali. Its total height is 1155 meter above the mean sea level.

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The Khyargas Nuur National park is a salt lake located in the great lakes basins of Mongolia. The lake is known for hot springs. It was established in the year f 1997.

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According to Kepler’s First law (Law of Orbits), each planet revolves around the sun in an elliptic orbit, the sun occupying one of the Foci. The elliptical shape of the orbit is a result of the inverse square force of gravity. Kepler’s laws were derived for orbits around the sun, but they apply to satellite orbits as well.

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An oxbow lake is a U-shaped body of water formed when a wide meander from the main stem of a river is cut off to create a lake. This landform is called an oxbow lake for the distinctive curved shape, named after part of a yoke for oxen.

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Granite is an igneous rock composed of mostly two minerals: quartz and feldspar. It is an intrusive rock, meaning that it crystallized from magma that cooled far below the Earth’s surface. A metamorphic rock is a result of a transformation of a pre-existing rock. The original rock is subjected to very high heat and pressure, which cause obvious physical and/or chemical changes. Examples include marble, slate, gneiss, schist.

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Stratigraphy is the scientific discipline (branch of Geology) concerned with the description of rock successions and their interpretation in terms of a general time scale. It provides a basis for historical geology, and its principles and methods have found application in such fields as petroleum geology and archaeology.

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Earth has five primary layers, which are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. From the Earth upwards, those layers are: Troposphere: 0 to 12 km; Stratosphere: 12 to 50 km; Mesosphere: 50 to 80 km; Thermosphere: 80 to 700 km; Exosphere: 700 to 10,000 km.

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Irrawaddy River is the largest river of Myanmar and its most important commercial waterway. Originating from the confluence of the N’mai and Mali rivers, it flows relatively straight North-South before emptying through the Irrawaddy Delta into the Andaman Sea. After Rudyard Kipling’s poem, it is sometimes referred to as ‘The Road to Mandalay’.

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Tatra National Park, located in southern Poland, is renowned for its picturesque mountainous landscapes, part of the Carpathian Mountains, and is a popular destination for hiking, skiing, and mountaineering.