World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Bight of Benin forms the coastline of Ghana. Ghana is a country located along the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Ghana is bordered by the Cote D’Ivoire in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east, the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean in the south.

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The El Cajon Dam, officially known as Central Hidroelectrica Francisco Morazan, is a hydroelectric power plant located in Western Honduras. The dam impounds the Comayagua River, which derives its large volume from two large tributaries, the Humuya River and the Sulaco River. El Cajon is a double arch dam, which uses parabolic geometry in horizontal and vertical axes to spread the weight of the impounded water to canyon walls which act as buttresses. Overall, the dam is the fifth-highest dam in the Americas and the 16th highest in the world, as well as the highest arch dam in the western hemisphere, and the sixth-highest worldwide.

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Iceland houses the volcanic caldera “Krafla”. Krafla is a volcanic caldera in the north of Iceland in the Myvatn region which is situated on the Iceland Hotspot atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the divergent boundary between the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate. There have been 29 reported eruptions in recorded history.

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The Jabal um ad Dami is the highest mountain peak of Jordan. It is about 1854 meters high above the mean sea level. It is situated near the border of Saudi Arabia.

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The world heritage site of Durmitor National Park is located in the Zibljak municipality of Montenegro. It was designated as world heritage site by UNESCO in 1980.

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The Earth is composed predominantly of a large mass of igneous rock with a very thin veneer of weathered material—namely, sedimentary rock. Igneous rocks are formed from the solidification of magma, which is a hot molten or partially molten rock. Igneous and metamorphic rocks make up 90–95% of the top 16 km of the Earth’s crust by volume.

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Red Soil is also known as yellow soil. Red soils are formed as a result of the draining down of old crystalline rock, less clayey and sandier in nature. Red clay soil are used for the production of bricks.

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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.

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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa. The Kalahari sand dunes, some of which stretch west to the Namib Desert, compose the largest continuous expanse of sand on earth.

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Verkhoyansk, Siberia, recorded a temperature of 38°C, the highest in the Arctic. Belgium’s highest temperature, 41.8°C, was recorded in Begijnendijk on July 25, 2019. Australia experienced its hottest summer in 2013, linked to bushfires and severe flooding. The Antarctic recorded a new high of 18.3°C at Esperanza station, Argentina.