World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Athens is it’s largest and capital city. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length.

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South America is the continent that houses the country Guyana. Guyana is a country on the northern mainland of South America. It is considered part of the Caribbean region because of its strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Caribbean countries and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Guyana is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the south and southwest, Venezuela to the west, and Suriname to the east.

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The Caribbean Sea forms the coastline of Honduras through the Gulf 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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The Potatso National Park is in China. The National parks of Japan are Noto National park, Hanto National park and Kita Nagato Kaigan.

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The State of Libya is home to the Sahara Desert, the largest desert of the world. About 90% of the Libya’s area is desert or semi desert.

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The largest lake of Mongolia country is Uvs lake. It is a highly saline lake in the Uvs nuur basin in Mongolia. Its total area is about 3350 sq. km.

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A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a Blood Moon, because of the reddish tinge the Full Moon takes on when fully eclipsed. A “blood moon” happens when Earth’s moon is in a total lunar eclipse. While it has no special astronomical significance, the view in the sky is striking as the usually whiteish moon becomes red or ruddy-brown.

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Wind is nothing more than the movement of air molecules from one place to the next due to pressure gradient, the Coriolis force, and surface friction. The speed of the wind is controlled by the strength of the pressure gradient (the difference in pressure over two places), the stronger the pressure gradient the higher the wind speed.

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The point within the earth where the actual movement takes place is called the focus. The point on the surface directly above the focus is called the epicenter. At least three seismic stations are needed to find the earthquake epicenter. A single recording station can only calculate distance, but not direction; to cover all possibilities, a complete circle is drawn around that station. If only two earthquake recording stations are used, the circles will overlap at two points. Data from a third recording station will eliminate one of these points.

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The grasslands are found in the middle latitudes of South America, North America, Africa and Asia. In the North America, they are known as prairies. In South America, they are called pampas. Central Eurasian grasslands are referred to as steppes, while in Africa they’re named savannas. The climate of the Pampas is generally temperate, gradually giving away to a more subtropical climate in the north and to a semiarid climate on the western fringes.