World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Guatemala and Mexico are the two countries that share the location of the fault zone “Motagua Fault”. The Motagua Fault is a major, active left lateral-moving transform fault which cuts across Guatemala, continuing offshore along the southern Pacific coast of Mexico, returning onshore along the southernmost tip of Oaxaca, then continuing offshore until it merges with the Middle America Trench near Acapulco. It forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate. It is considered the onshore continuation of the Swan Islands Transform Fault which runs under the Caribbean Sea.

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The Nzerekore Region is a region in the southern part of Guinea. Its capital and largest city are Nzerekore. It is one of the eight regions of Guinea. It is bordered by the countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast, and the Guinean regions of Kankan and Faranah.

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Lake Peligre is the second largest lake in Haiti. It was created as a result of the construction of the Peligre Hydroelectric Dam on the Artibonite River in 1956–1957. The project was designed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and financed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

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India is ranked 2 in coal production in the world. The top coal-producing countries are China, India, USA, and Indonesia.

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Iceland houses the “Vatnajokull Glacier”. Vatnajokull, also known as the Glacier of Lakes, is the largest and most voluminous ice cap in Iceland, and the second-largest in the area in Europe after the Severny Island ice cap of Novaya Zemlya.

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Iceland houses the volcanic caldera “Grimsvotn”. Grimsvotn is a volcano with a fissure system located in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland. The volcano itself is completely subglacial and located under the northwestern side of the Vatnajokull ice cap. Beneath the caldera is the magma chamber of the Grimsvotn volcano. Grimsvotn is a basaltic volcano that has the highest eruption frequency of all the volcanoes in Iceland and has a southwest-northeast-trending fissure system.

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The Republic of Lithuania is situated in the Baltic region of eastern Europe. It shares its border with Latvia, Poland, Russia and Belarus. It shares the longest border with Belarus which is about 680 km long.

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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 ‘Guarani Aquifer is the world’s second-largest aquifer beneath the surface of Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. It is named after the Guarani people & is a vital source of freshwater that can supply drinking water to the world for the next 200 years.

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Igneous rocks are formed through the cooling and solidification of magma (or lava). As hot, molten rock rises to the surface, it undergoes changes in temperature and pressure that cause it to cool, solidify, and crystallize. There are over 700 known types of igneous rock, the majority of which are formed beneath the surface of the Earth’s crust. However, some are also formed on the surface as a result of volcanic activity.