World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Georgia houses the Javakheti Plateau. Javalkheti Plateau is a volcanic plateau within the Caucasus Mountains that covers the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia, along the border with Turkey and Armenia. Its elevation is over 2,000 m. The plateau is a large grassland plain (alpine steppe) with many wetlands and alpine lakes (six of the largest lakes of Georgia, Tabatskuri, Paravani, Khanchali, Madatapa, Kartsakhi, Saghamo). The Javalkheti Wetlands are included in the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. The plain is crossed from north to south by the Abuli-Samsari Mountain Range, a series of volcanic cones. The western side of the plateau is surrounded by the Javakheti Range.

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Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, and Suriname share the location of the geographical formation “Tepui” table-top mountains. A tepui is a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. Tepuis tend to be found as isolated entities rather than in connected ranges, which makes them the host of a unique array of endemic plant and animal species.

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The Acarai Mountains are a wet, forested highland region of low mountains located in the southern part of Guyana. This range lies along the common border between Guyana and Brazil. The Acarai Mountains is one of four mountain ranges in Guyana, the others being the Imataka, Kanuku and Pakaraima mountains.

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Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the two countries that share the location of the “Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone”. The Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone (EPGFZ) is a system of active coaxial left lateral-moving strike-slip faults which runs along the southern side of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are located. The EPGFZ is named for Lake Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic where the fault zone emerges and extends across the southern portion of Hispaniola through the Caribbean to the region of the Plantain Garden River in Jamaica.

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Iceland houses the “Vaglaskogur Forest”. It is a 300-hectare forest in Iceland. It is the second-largest forest area in the country. This area contains many birch trees and is a visitor attraction.

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Iceland’s major power source is the “Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station”. The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station (NGPS) is the second-largest geothermal power station in Iceland. The facility is located 177 m above sea level in the southwestern part of the country, near Thingvellir and the Hengill Volcano.

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The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. The inner four planets closest to the sun — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are often called the “terrestrial planets”. The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — are sometimes called the Jovian or “Jupiter-like” planets.

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Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, making up 467,100 ppm (parts per million) of the Earth’s crust, or 46.6%. It exists as a major compound of the silicate minerals where it combines with other elements. It also exists as a compound in carbonates and phosphates. Silicon is the second most common element pre-sent in the crust with an abundance of 276,900 ppm (27.7%).

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Most of the credit for making drip irrigation what it is today goes to Israel and South Africa where it is most efficiently used. As with most water-scarce countries, Israel has seen first hand how efficient irrigation methods and strategic water reuse can help ensure sustainable, reliable agricultural production.

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A land cyclone is a rare weather system with a low-pressure center that forms over land, occurring only 14 times since 1891. A mesocyclone is an air vortex within a convective storm, with a diameter of 3.2 to 9.7 km. A subtropical cyclone combines features of tropical and extratropical cyclones and forms at lower sea surface temperatures than tropical cyclones. Wave cyclones, or extratropical cyclones, are low-pressure areas that develop in middle and high latitudes, primarily between 30° and 60° latitude.