World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Armorican Massif is a geologic massif that covers a large area in the northwest of France. It is important because it is connected to Dover on the British side of the English Channel and there has been tilting back and forth that has controlled the geography on both sides. The Cantabrian Mountains and the Armorican Massif from the rift shoulders of the Bay of Biscay.

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The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece is formed between the peninsulas of Attica and Argolis and forms part of the Aegean Sea.

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Euboea or Evia is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait.

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Kamarang Great Falls is located on the Kamarang River in southwestern Guyana. The falls plunge off the Pacaraima Mountains escarpment in an isolated western corner of Guyana only a few kilometres from the Venezuelan border. Its height is 145 meters. By its volume, Kamarang Great Falls is one of the most powerful waterfalls in the country.

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Iceland houses the volcanic caldera “Krafla”. Krafla is a volcanic caldera in the north of Iceland in the Myvatn region which is situated on the Iceland Hotspot atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.

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Iceland houses the third-largest geothermal power station in the world “Hellisheidi Power Station”. The facility is located in Hengill, southwest Iceland. The plant has a capacity of 303 MW of electricity and 133 MWth of hot water for Reykjavik’s district heating. Reykjavik is the capital city of Iceland.

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Indonesia’s sovereign territory now includes “Netherlands New Guinea”. Netherlands New Guinea refers to the Papua region of Indonesia while it was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It was commonly known as Dutch New Guinea. It contained what are now Indonesia’s two easternmost provinces, Papua and West Papua, which were administered as a single province prior to 2003.

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The Earth is composed predominantly of a large mass of igneous rock with a very thin veneer of weathered material—namely, sedimentary rock. Igneous rocks are formed from the solidification of magma, which is a hot molten or partially molten rock. Igneous and metamorphic rocks make up 90–95% of the top 16 km of the Earth’s crust by volume.

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Convection rain commonly occurs in warmed or heated areas such as equatorial/tropical regions, where there is almost daily occurrence and even distribution of rain, and temperate areas in summer. It is also common in the inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ). It happens when the ground surface is locally overheated and the adjacent air, heated by conduction, expands and rises.

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Taiga is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches. It is the world’s largest terrestrial biome.