World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Honduras does share a border with Guatemala. Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, Honduras to the east, El Salvador to the southeast and the Pacific Ocean to the south. It is the most populous country in Central America. Guatemala is a representative democracy; its capital and largest city is Guatemala City.

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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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Tisza River was once also called “the most Hungarian river”. The Tisza is one of the main rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Once, it was called “the most Hungarian river” because it flowed entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia are the basin countries of this river.

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Indonesia houses the deadly active stratovolcano “Mount Sinabung”. Mount Sinabung is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of North Sumatra, Indonesia, 40 kilometres from Lake Toba supervolcano. Many old lava flows are on their flanks and the last known eruption, before recent times, occurred 1200 years before the present, between 740 – 880 CE.

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The Jeju Volcanic island and lava tubes is situated on the Jeju island of South Korea. It was designated as the world heritage site in 2007.

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Willow is a species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Willow wood is also used in the manufacture of boxes, brooms, cricket bats (grown from certain strains of white willow), cradle boards, etc.

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The word equinox is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night). It refers to the day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration. An equinox occurs twice a year, around 20 March and 22 September.

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Norway’s extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea, is laced with fjords, a renowned part of its landscape. Many people consider fjords the very symbol of Norway.

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Birmingham, one of the seats of Industrial Revolution, has traditionally been known for its iron and steel industry. Famous as “the first manufacturing town in the world” in 1791, today the city’s products include: motor vehicles, vehicle components and accessories, weapons, electrical equipment, plastics, machine tools, chemicals, food, jewellery and glass.

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The Wakhan Corridor is a land strip in Afghanistan bordering China, Tajikistan, and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, also called Bam-e-Dunya, meaning ‘roof of the world.’