World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Cotton is one of the most important cash crops supplying raw material to an extensive textile industry. The Boll Weevil disease affecting the cotton crops, reduces the yields of the crop and the soil.

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The Aegean Sea forms the coastline to the east of Greece. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Athens is it’s largest and capital city. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length.

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Cretan sea lies to the south of Greece. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Athens is it’s largest and capital city. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length.

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Hispaniola Island houses the country “Haiti”. Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.

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Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 and an area of 103,000 km2, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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Iceland houses the second most powerful waterfall in Europe “Dettifoss Waterfall”. Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland and is reputed to be the second most powerful waterfall in Europe after the Rhine Falls. Dettifoss is situated on the Jokulsa a Fjollum river, which flows from the Vatnajokull glacier and collects water from a large area in Northeast Iceland. It is the second-largest waterfall in Iceland in terms of volume discharge

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Iceland houses the “Lake Myvatn”. Lake Myvatn is a shallow lake situated in an area of active volcanism in the north of Iceland, not far from the Krafla volcano. It has a high amount of biological activity. The lake and the surrounding wetlands provide a habitat for a number of waterbirds, especially ducks. The lake was created by a large basaltic lava eruption 2300 years ago.

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The longest river of Republic of Malawi is Shire river. It flows into Zambezi river in Mosambique. Its total length in Malawi is about 402 km.

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Sandstone can be turned into a metamorphic rock by being either heated up to a point where it undergoes a significant change or subjected to high pressures, or subjected to chemically active fluids, or some combination thereof. A common result of the metamorphosis of sandstone is the creation of quartzite.

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Marble is a metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to the heat and pressure of metamorphism. It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite (CaCO3) and usually contains other minerals, such as clay minerals, micas, quartz, pyrite, iron oxides, and graphite. Under the conditions of metamorphism, the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is a mass of interlocking calcite crystals.