World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Coal has been used as a source of energy since very long time. It formed the foundation of the industrial revolution.
On the basis of carbon content, coal is classified into a number of types, the most important types being:
– Anthracite (carbon content above 90 per cent)
– Bituminous (carbon content 40 to 80 per cent)
– Lignite and Brown coal or Peat (carbon content below 40 per cent)

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The English Channel, also known as “the Channel”, is a body of water which forms part of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain (Southern England) and Northern France. The English Channel is linked to the North Sea through the Strait of Dover, thereby connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the coasts of France, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany. It is the busiest shipping area in the world.

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Ivory Coast and Guinea are the two countries that share the location of the “Mount Richard-Molard”. Mount Richard-Molard, also known as Mount Nimba, is a mountain along the border of Ivory Coast and Guinea in West Africa. The highest peak for both countries and the Nimba Range is at 1,752 m. The mountain is a part of the Guinea Highlands, which straddles the borders between the two countries and Liberia.

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The highest peak of Latvia is Gaizinkalns Hills. It is about 312 meters above the mean sea level.

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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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The highest peak of the Kingdom of Netherlands is Vaalserberg. The highest situated place of the country is Vaals which is situated in the hills of Vaalserberg.

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A meander, in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or river. A meander forms when moving water in a river erodes the outer banks and widens its valley. Meandering rivers erode sediment from the outer curve of each meander bend and deposit it on an inner curve further downstream. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an oxbow lake forms.

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The narrow strip of land that connects two extensive landmasses is called isthmus. An isthmus either connects two continents or joins a peninsula with the mainland. Panama and Suez isthmus are the typical examples of an isthmus.

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An evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests reign in the equatorial region, between the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.

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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.