World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Mount Pelee is a 1397 maters high active stratovolcano, which forms part of the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc, located in the Martinique Island, one of the overseas territories of France. The volcanic cone of Mount Pelee is composed of stratified layers of hardened ash and solidified lava. The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee destroyed the entire town of Saint-Pierre and killed the entire population except for the survival of only two persons. It is one of the worst volcanic disasters of the 20th century.

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Lake Esparron is an artificial reservoir, filled in 1967 following the construction of the hydroelectric dam in Greoux on the course of the Verdon River, located in France. Lake Esparron is the third-largest by surface area after the lakes of Sainte-Croix and Castillon. Lake Esparron is an important summer tourism center, frequented for water recreation and for fishing.

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Lake Biwa is the largest fresh water lake in Japan. It is about 4 million years old. Its length is about 63.49 Km and width is about 22.8 km.

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The highest mountain peak of Federated States of Micronesia is Mount Nanhalaud. It is located in Pohnpei island of Micronesia. Its total height above the mean sea level is about 782 meter.

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The ‘Guarani Aquifer is the world’s second-largest aquifer beneath the surface of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It is named after the Guarani people & is a vital source of freshwater that can supply drinking water to the world for the next 200 years.

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A safety valve is a device which allows liquids or gases to escape from a machine when the pressure inside it becomes too great. Similarly, a volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. So, it is also known as ‘safety valve of nature.’

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The Kali Gandaki Gorge is the gorge of the Kali Gandaki in the Himalayas in Nepal. The gorge separates the major peaks of Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) on the west and Annapurna (8,091 m) on the east. If one measures the depth of a canyon by the difference between the river height and the heights of the highest peaks on either side, the gorge is the world’s deepest.

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Precipitation patterns across Australia are seasonal in nature. In northern Australia, most of the year’s rain falls in the summer months, while the winter months are dry. In the southern part of Australia, rain tends to fall more in the winter than in the summer. Precipitation gradually decreases from north to south and becomes more seasonal due to the reduced influence of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and greater exposure to monsoon rainfall variability.

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The mid-latitude grasslands are called the world’s bread baskets regions of grain and l ivestock production. They are found in the middle latitudes of South America, North America, Africa and Asia.

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• The strongest tropical storm of 2022, dubbed Super Typhoon ‘Hinnamnor’, hits the islands of Japan and South Korea.
• Typhoon Nanmadol, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Josie, was a powerful tropical cyclone that impacted Japan.
• Typhoon Noru, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Karding, was an intense tropical cyclone that affected Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines — where it caused widespread agricultural damages.