World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are the two water bodies that form the coastline of Indonesia west and east respectively. Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of more than seventeen thousand islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New Guinea (Papua). Indonesia is the world’s largest island country and the 14th-largest country by land area.

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Java Island is the world’s most populous island. Java is an island of Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean on the south and the Java Sea on the north. With a population of over 148 million, Java constitutes 56.1 per cent of the Indonesian population and is the world’s most populous island.

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The Blue Mountain Peak is the highest mountain peak of Jamaica. It is situated in Saint Thomas Parishes of Jamaica. its height is about 2,256 meters.

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The Republic of Lithuania is situated in the Baltic region of eastern Europe. The total area of land under agriculture in Lithuania is about 28059 sq. km which is about 45% of the total land of the country.

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The highest mountain peak of United Mexican States is Pico de Orizaba. It is also known as Star Mountain. It is an inactive stratovolcano and is located at a height of 5636 meters above the mean sea level.

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A supernova is a stellar explosion that is more energetic than a nova. During this short interval a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun is expected to emit over its entire life span. The explosion expels much or all of a star’s material at a velocity of up to 30,000 km/s (10% of the speed of light).

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Wind is nothing more than the movement of air molecules from one place to the next due to pressure gradient, the Coriolis force, and surface friction. The speed of the wind is controlled by the strength of the pressure gradient (the difference in pressure over two places), the stronger the pressure gradient the higher the wind speed.

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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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ITCZ stands for Inter Tropical Convergence Zone. It is a belt of low pressure which circles the Earth generally near the equator where the trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres come together. It is characterized by convective activity which generates often vigorous thunderstorms over large areas.

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Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, south of Quitoand northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America.It is the second highest summit in Ecuador, reaching a height of 5,897 m. It is one of the world’s highest volcanoes.