World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Lake Moeris, a Ramsar Wetland, is an ancient lake located in the northwest of Faiyum Oasis of Egypt. In the ancient Egyptian prehistory, it was a freshwater lake. Now it is a saltwater lake called Birket Qarun. The prehistoric mammal Moeritherium was found in this area.

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Liquid or gaseous minerals are obtained by the process of drilling. This process implies making a relatively narrow but deep bore-well to obtain the mineral. The mineral can then be obtained through pumping.

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Pico Basile National Park is an IUCN Category II national park located in the Bioko Island of Equatorial Guinea near the Gulf of Guinea, facing the Atlantic Ocean. It is an important protected area which hosts landscapes and vegetation crucial for primates, which are threatened because of illegal hunting.

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Abul-Samsari Range is a volcanic range in southern Georgia, southwest of Tbilisi. It is a part of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains and rises above the Javakheti and Tsalka Plateaus. The range itself is 40 km long and runs north to south from the Ktsia to the Paravani River Gorges. The highest mountain is Didi Abuli at an elevation of 3,301 m above sea level. The slopes of the Abul-Samsari Range are mainly covered with alpine meadows and grasslands.

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The Pasion River is a river located in the northern lowlands region of Guatemala. The river is fed by a number of upstream tributaries whose sources lie in the hills of Alta Verapaz. The Pasion river basin is recognized as an archaeological region or zone and contains a number of archaeological sites of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, which to an extent shared some commonalities in Maya architectural style, political history and glyphic conventions.

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Guyana and Venezuela are the two countries that are covered by the ecoregion “Orinoco Delta swamp forests”. The Orinoco Delta swamp forests is an ecoregion of eastern Venezuela and northern Guyana covering the large and shifting Orinoco Delta. The vegetation is mostly permanently flooded rainforest. The ecoregion is relatively intact apart from a large area that was damaged by a failed flood control program in the 1960s. It is inaccessible, so logging is difficult, and the soil is unsuitable for farming. The main threat comes from oil exploration, which would bring an influx of settlers into the delta.

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The Massif de la Hotte is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the far western end of the Tiburon Peninsula. The region is relatively remote and is one of the most biologically diverse and significant areas of all of Hispaniola. It also supports some of the last stands of Haiti’s dense cloud forest on its peaks.

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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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The Ts’ehlanyane National Park is situated in the Leribe district of Lesotho. It is a part of Maloti mountain system.

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Red Soil is also known as yellow soil. Red soils are formed as a result of the draining down of old crystalline rock, less clayey and sandier in nature. Red clay soil are used for the production of bricks.