World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Volcan de Agua (also known as Hunahpu by Maya civilization) is a stratovolcano located in Guatemala. It is a stratovolcano located in the Central America Volcanic Arc belt in which was last erupted during the late Pleistocene period.

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Hungary’s popular holiday destination and an endorheic lake is “Lake Velence”. Lake Velence, an endorheic basin, is the third-largest natural lake in Hungary. It is a popular holiday destination among Hungarians. The lake has an area of 26 km2, one-third of which is covered by the common reed. Because of the sunny climate of the area and the shallowness of the lake, it is one of the warmest lakes in Europe.

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The island nation of Kiribati, officially known as Republic of Kiribati is located in central Pacific Ocean. It is made up of 33 islands among which the highest is Banaba island.

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The length of a year on any given planet is determined by how long it takes for that planet to make one revolution around the sun. As Neptune is the farthest planet, it takes Neptune 60,190.03 earth days to go around the sun.

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The International Date Line (IDL) (180is an imaginary line on the surface of the Earth, that runs from the north to the South Pole and demarcates one calendar day from the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° longitude but it deviates to pass around some territories and island groups.

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In regions of rocky deserts, wind abrasion excavates the bands of softer rocks into long, narrow corridors, separating the steep-sided over-hanging ridges of hard rocks, called yardangs. Instead of lying in horizontal strata upon one another, the hard and soft rocks of yardangs are vertical bands and are aligned in the direction of the prevailing winds.

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The distance between two longitude lines is called gore. A gore is the curved surface which lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe. It refers to a sector of a curved surface. It is possible to flatten it to a plane surface with little distortion.

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The term “smog” was first used in London during the early 1900’s to describe the combination of smoke and fog. What we typically call “smog” today is a mixture of pollutants but is primarily made up of ground-level ozone.

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Lagoon is a shallow stretch of water which is partly or completely separated from the sea by a narrow strip of land. In the case of coral reef, it is a channel of sea water between the reef and the main land. Lagoons are common coastal features around many parts of the world.

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Dasht-e Kavir is great salt desert of north-central Iran. Located in a basin southeast of the Elburz Mountains, it is approximately390 km wide. The desert is distinguished by its salt crust, caused by the almost rainless climate and intense surface evaporation, lying over treacherous quick sand like salt marshes that are almost uninhabited.