World & Physical Geography MCQs

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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 south western part of Kazakhstan is connected with Caspian sea, which is the largest inland water body of the world.

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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 longest river of Republic of Nicaragua is river Rio Coco. It is located in the Somoto Canyon, Madriz department, Nicaragua. Its total length is about 750 km.

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In the Sahara Desert, there are also gravel plains and elevated plateaus with bare rocky surface. These rocky surfaces may be more than 2500 m. high at some places.

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Ursa Major, also known as Great Bear, is a constellation in the northern sky. In antiquity, it was one of the original 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and is now the third largest constellation of the 88 modern constellations. It is visible throughout the year from most of the northern hemisphere, and appears circumpolar above the mid-northern latitudes.

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Arkose is a detrital sedimentary rock, specifically a type of sandstone containing at least 25% feldspar. It is commonly coarse-grained and usually either pink of gray (depending on the color of feldspar).

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Granite is a light-colored igneous rock that forms from the slow crystallization of magma below Earth’s surface. Strictly speaking, granite is an igneous rock with between 20% and 60% quartz by volume, and at least 35% of the total feldspar consisting of alkali feldspar.

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Tropical rainforests are characterized in two words: hot and wet. Mean monthly temperatures exceed 18 °C during all months of the year. Average annual rainfall is no less than 1,680 mm and can exceed 10 m although it typically lies between 1,750 mm and 3,000 mm.This high level of precipitation results in poor soils due to leaching of soluble nutrients in the ground.

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Land breeze is a local wind system characterized by a flow from land to water late at night. Land breezes alternate with sea breezes along coastlines adjacent to large bodies of water. Both are induced by differences that occur between the heating or cooling of the water surface and the adjacent land surface.