World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Dairy farming involves large financial investments in buildings and machinery. The machinery requirements of a dairy farm are also large. Besides machines for feeding, milking and cleaning, there are large requirements of machinery for cooling milk. In general, the dairy farms do not occupy the best type of farmland. Most of the area under dairy farms has a mantle of glacial deposits and the land is often stony.

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The Grenadines are a chain of small islands that lie in the Caribbean Sea on a line between the larger islands of Saint Vincent and Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Nine are inhabited and open to the public (or ten, if the offshore island of Young Island is counted): Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Union Island, Petit St Vincent, Palm Island and Mayreau, all in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, plus Petite Martinique and Carriacou in Grenada.

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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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Java Island is the world’s most populous island. Java is an island of Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean on the south and the Java Sea on the north. With a population of over 148 million, Java constitutes 56.1 per cent of the Indonesian population and is the world’s most populous island.

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Japan is consist of about 6852 islands among them 4 are major which constitute about 97% of the total area of Japan.

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The total area of Republic of Malawi is about 118,484 sq. km. The total forest cover of the country is about 34.4%.

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An Isthmus is a narrow strip of land with sea on either side connecting two larger area of land. The Isthmus of Panama is the largest in the world having a length of 676 Km. It connects North America with South America.

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The Solar System has eight planets which orbit the sun. In order of distance from the sun they are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. As per distance the increasing order from the earth is Venus, Mars, Mercury and Jupiter.

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Granite is an igneous rock composed of mostly two minerals: quartz and feldspar. It is an intrusive rock, meaning that it crystallized from magma that cooled far below the Earth’s surface. A metamorphic rock is a result of a transformation of a pre-existing rock. The original rock is subjected to very high heat and pressure, which cause obvious physical and/or chemical changes. Examples include marble, slate, gneiss, schist.

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The kimono is a Japanese traditional garment that is most often worn by women, and on special occasions. It is in form of full-length robes that is always used in important festival on formal moments. It is the representative of polite and very formal clothing.