World & Physical Geography MCQs

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As per the recent announcement from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), widespread rain or thundershowers will come back to Tamil Nadu, Kerala and regions over the South Peninsula.
The Easterly waves move fast across the Bay of Bengal and usually target the south peninsula region. Also called as the tropical wave or tropical easterly wave, it is an area of relatively low air pressure, which moves from east to west across the tropics and causes cloudiness and thunderstorms.

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Iceland houses the glacial lake “Jokulsarlon”. Jokulsarlon, also known as “glacial river lagoon”, is a large glacial lake in the southern part of Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland. Situated at the head of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, it developed into a lake after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The lake has grown since then at varying rates because of the melting of the glaciers.

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Iraq houses the autonomous region “Kurdistan Region”. The Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region in northern Iraq comprising the four Kurdish-majority governorates of Dohuk, Erbil, Halabja and Sulaymaniyah and bordering Iran, Syria and Turkey. The Kurdistan Region encompasses most of Iraqi Kurdistan but excludes the disputed territories of Northern Iraq, contested between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central Iraqi government in Baghdad since Kurdish autonomy was realized in 1992 in the aftermath of the Gulf War.

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The Shinano river is the longest and widest river in Japan. It is also known by the name of Chikuma river. It is located in northeastern Honshu.

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Jordan is an Arab country which lies in the western Asian continent. It has a total area of about 89,342 Sq. Km.

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A hill is a land surface that rises higher than the surrounding area. Generally, a steep hill with an elevation of more than 600 metres is termed as a mountain. A mountain is any natural elevation of the earth’s surface. The mountains may have a small summit and a broad base. Mountains may be arranged in a line known as a range. Many mountain systems consist of a series of parallel ranges extending over hundreds of kilometers.

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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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Extending from the top of the thermosphere to 10,000 km above the earth is the exosphere which is farthest from the Earth. This layer has very few atmospheric molecules, which can escape into space.

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The Harmattan, a dry, dusty, north-easterly or easterly wind which occurs in West Africa north of the equator, is known as the Doctor. The weather becomes suddenly dry and pleasant in the western coast of Africa, at the arrival of Harmattan. The harmattan season is from the end of November to the middle of March.

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Jet streams are relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere. The winds blow from west to east in jet streams, but the flow often shifts to the north and south. Jet streams follow the boundaries between hot and cold air.