World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Tumuk Humak Mountains are a mountain range in South America, which is located in the border area between Brazil in the south and Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas region of France in the north. The Tumuk Humak Mountains are part of the Tumucumaque Uplands of Guiana Shield. They are geographically important because they form the divide between the biogeographical system of the Amazon Basin and that of the Atlantic coastal area of the Guianas. The Tumuk Humak plateau is covered primarily with lowland and plateau forests.

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Mount Oave is a mountain and the highest point of the Marquesas Islands, an island of French Polynesia, which is an overseas collectivity of France. This volcanic mountain is one of the most isolated peaks in the world. This mountain was featured in the French postage stamps.

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, holds its position near Newfoundland and Labrador, a Canadian province. The boundary case that occurred in 1992, determined the range of Saint Pierre and Miquelon’s Exclusive Economic Zone. Remarkably, Saint Pierre and Miquelon retains French control as the only remnant of New France. Located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Fortune Bay’s entryway, this northwestern Atlantic Ocean location shares Canada as its only maritime border neighbor.

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Grenada is a sovereign country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

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The Republic of Kenya is located in Eastern Africa. It shares its borders with Indian Ocean which lies to its East.

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The largest lake of Mongolia country is Uvs lake. It is a highly saline lake in the Uvs nuur basin in Mongolia. Its total area is about 3350 sq. km.

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Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to the Earth. It is a red dwarf, a small low-mass star, about 4.25 light-years from the Sun in the constellation of Centaurus. Because of Proxima Centauri’s proximity to Earth, its angular diameter can be measured directly; it is about one-seventh the diameter of the Sun.

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On the basis of chemical composition earth can be divided into crust, mantle and core. On the basis of chemical composition earth can be divided into lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, and Barysphere (Core). The interior layer is the core or barysphere, 3476 km in radius, and is made up mainly of iron (Fe) with some nickel and is called nife.

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A desert is a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. Lack of or insufficient precipitation is the main reason behind the lack of vegetation.

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Sleet is precipitation composed of rain and partially melted snow. It forms when rain, while falling to the earth, passes through a layer of cold air and freezes. Sleet occurs when the temperature in the lowest part of the atmosphere is slightly above the freezing point of water (0 °C).