World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Indonesia’s highest mountain is “Puncak Jaya”. Puncak Jaya, also known as  Carstensz Pyramid or Mount Jayawijaya or Mount Carstensz, is the highest mountain in Indonesia, on the island of New Guinea, with an elevation of 4,884 m. It is the highest peak of an island on Earth, and the highest peak in Oceania. Located in the Sudirman Range of the western central highlands of Papua Province, Indonesia.

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The south western part of Kazakhstan is connected with Caspian sea, which is the largest inland water body of the world.

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The longest river of South Korea is Han river. It is about 494 km long and have a basin of 35,770 sq. km.

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The total agriculture land in the Republic of Mali counts about an area of 416210 sq. km. It counts about the 34% of the total area of the country.

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The International Date Line (IDL) (180is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, that runs from the north to the South Pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups.

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The course of a river from its source to its mouth is normally divided into 3 sections, namely upper, middle and lower courses. Action of the river on its valley from source to mouth in relation to the features developed by it is seen in he river valley profile, known as graded profile. Throughout the long profile of a river, deposition and erosion are balanced meaning that, given enough time, the river’s long profile would become a smooth, concave, graded profile from its source to mouth.

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Mount Etna : an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy (Europe); Mount K2 : the second highest mountain in the world, located on the China- Pakistan border in Asia; Mount Kilimanjaro: a dormant volcano in Tanzania (Africa).

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Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere this is the 21st December solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere this is the 21st June solstice. Solstices are opposite on either side of the equator, so the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere and vice versa.

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Soil erosion in a desert region can be checked by tree plantation and afforestation.

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Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is on the plate boundary between the Juan de Fuca plate and North American plate.