World & Physical Geography MCQs

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East Timor, officially known as the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island nation that lies within the Maritime Southeast Asia region. It is situated on the eastern side of Timor Island, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands of the Malay Archipelago. While Indonesia is the only country to share a land border with East Timor, the Timor Sea delineates it from Australia. The sea is a part of the eastern Indian Ocean. Distinguished features of the Timor-Leste territory include Atauro Island, Jaco Island, and Oecusse province, an exclave surrounded by West Timor, Indonesia.

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The consumption of nitrogen has increased most phenomenally while the growth in the consumption of potash has been the least.
Nitrogen fertiliser is the most widely used among all chemical fertilisers. China, US and India are the leading producers of nitrogenous fertilisers.

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Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, an overseas territory of France, located in the southern Indian Ocean, north of the Kerguelen Islands. BirdLife International recognized Saint Paul Island as an Important Bird Area. Amsterdam Island houses the French research station Martin-de-Vivies.

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Glorioso Islands are a group of French islands that form part of the Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean under the French Southern and Antarctic lands, an overseas territory of France. They are geographically part of the Comoro Islands between the French overseas region of Mayotte and Madagascar. The France-Seychelles Maritime Boundary Agreement is a 2001 treaty between France and Seychelles which delimits the maritime boundary between Seychelles and the uninhabited Glorioso Islands which are claimed by France.

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The Scheldt River is a 360-kilometer long river that rises/originates from northern France and then flows through western Belgium and the southwestern part of the Netherlands, with its mouth at the North Sea. This river is a Ramsar Wetland. This river is an important waterway that houses Port of Antwerp and also supports several industrial areas along its course.

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The Gulf of Patras is a branch of the Ionian Sea in Western Greece. On the east, it is closed by the Strait of Rion between capes Rio and Antirrio, near the Rio-Antirrio bridge, that is the entrance of the Gulf of Corinth. On the west, it is bounded by a line from Oxeia island to Cape Araxos. To the north, it is bounded by the shore of Aetolia-Acarnania in continental Greece, and to the south by Achaea in the Peloponnese peninsula.

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Japan is an island country which lies in the North Pacific ocean and is bordered by Sea of Okhotsk which is a marginal sea of the western Pacific ocean.

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A nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulae (more than one nebula) come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a dying star, such as a supernova. Nebulae exist in the space between the stars-also known as interstellar space. The closest known nebula to Earth is called the Helix Nebula.

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A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland caused due to the fissure in the earth along which one side moves down with reference to the other. It is commonly seen between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. A rift valley is formed on a divergent plate boundary, a crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface.

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Cotopaxi is an active stratovolcano in the Andes Mountains, located in the Latacunga canton of Cotopaxi Province, south of Quitoand northeast of the city of Latacunga, Ecuador, in South America.It is the second highest summit in Ecuador, reaching a height of 5,897 m. It is one of the world’s highest volcanoes.