World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The single largest area of the tropical rain forest occurs in Amazon basin in Brazil. The rain forest occupies about half the area of the Amazon basin. In recent decades however, there has been a considerable encroachment on this forest from the east and south.

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Monte Cinto is 2706 meters high mountain located in the Corsica Island, one of 18 regions of France. It is the highest mountain in Corsica Island and one of the most prominent peaks of Europe.

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The Toronean Gulf or Toroneos Gulf, also known as the Kassandra Gulf, is a gulf of the Thracian Sea, part of the northern Aegean Sea, in Chalkidiki, Greece. It lies between the Kassandra peninsula in the west and Sithonia in the east.

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The Pacific Ocean forms the coastline to the south of Honduras. Honduras is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

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Lesotho is a country which lies in the southern part of African continent. It is officially known as “Kingdom of Lesotho”.

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The longest river of the Republic of Macedonia is river Vardar. The river is around 388 kilometer long. The basin area of the river is around 25,000 sq.Km.

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The Himalayan mountains have come out of a great geosyncline called the Tethys Sea. About 120 million years ago, there were only two big continents in the world- in the north was Laurasia or Angara land and in the southern hemisphere was Gondwanaland. In between Laurasia and Gondwanaland, there was a long, narrow and shallow sea called Tethys Sea. Sediments were brought by the rivers from these landmasses and deposited in the bed of the sea. the Himalayas was formed by the compression and crushing of these sediments.

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Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali. In 2006, it was estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth-fastest in the world. It is the seventh- largest West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar, and Accra. It is located on the Niger River.

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Occupying most of the Iberian Peninsula’s land area. Spain is the third largest country in Europe and 45% is covered by the Meseta Plateau. The plateau is rarely flat, and is in reality a mostly hilly highland area divided by the Cordillera Central (mountains), and then ringed by additional mountain ranges, north, east and south. In the west the Meseta slopes gently down into neighboring Portugal.

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The Southern Alps is a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand’s South Island. The range includes the South Island’s Main Divide, which separates the water catchments of the more heavily populated eastern side of the island from those on the west coast.