World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The United States has the largest road network, with over 6.6 million kilometers of roads. The Interstate Highway System, established in 1956, covers about 77,000 kilometers within this network. India ranks second with approximately 6.3 million kilometers. China’s total road length exceeds 5 million kilometers. Russia’s network is about 1.5 million kilometers.

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Mount Orohena is a 2241 meters high extinct volcano located in the Tahiti Island of French Polynesia, an overseas region of France of the southern Pacific Ocean. This mountain is the highest point of French Polynesia.

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Ghana does not share a land border with Guinea. Guinea shares a land border with Guinea-Bissau to the north-west, Senegal to the north, Mali to the north-east, Ivory Coast to the east, Sierra Leone to the south-west and Liberia to the south.

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Brazil and Guyana are the two countries that share the location of mountain “Monte Caburai”. Monte Caburaí is a mountain located on the border between the South American countries of Brazil and Guyana standing at 1,465 metres above sea level.

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Indonesia houses the famous “Ombilin Coal Mine”. The Ombilin Coal Mine is a coal mine near West Sumatra, Indonesia. It is located in a narrow valley along the Bukit Barisan mountains, among the Polan, Pari and Mato hills. Coal was discovered in the mid-19th century by Willem Hendrik de Greve, and mining was pioneered in the area in 1876. The mine is known as the oldest coal mining site in Southeast Asia.

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The Bayanaul national park is situated in the Pavlodar province of Kazakhstan. It was established in 1985.

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The longest river of Kyrgyz Republic is Naryn which is about 435 kilometers long. It originates from Tian shan mountain.

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The reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air is known as temperature inversion. Inversions play an important role in determining cloud forms, precipitation, and visibility.

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The land breeze is a coastal breeze at night blowing from the land to the ocean. It is caused by the difference in the rates of cooling of the land and of the ocean. It reduces temperature on land in night time. The sea breeze has the same moderating influence during the daytime. So,in the course of a day, there are both land and sea breezes.

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The world’s largest island is Greenland (North Atlantic), Denmark. Its area is 2,175,597 sq. km.