World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Occupied territories of Georgia are the territories occupied by Russia after the Russo-Georgian War in 2008. They consist of the regions of Abkhazia and the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast of Soviet Georgia (currently divided between several administrative divisions of independent Georgia), whose status is a matter of international dispute. After the 2008 war and subsequent Russian military occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Russian government, along with four other UN member states, considers the territories as sovereign independent states: the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia. Both Abkhazia and South Ossetia are widely recognized as integral parts of Georgia and together represent 20% of Georgia’s internationally recognized territory. The Georgian “Law on Occupied Territories of Georgia”, adopted in 2008, criminalizes and prosecutes entry into Abkhazia and South Ossetia from the Russian side without special permission.

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Grand Etang Lake is a crater lake in an extinct volcano. It is located on the island of Grenada, in Saint Andrew Parish. Evidence suggests that the Grand Etang Lake is connected to Kick ’em Jenny, an active submarine volcano to the north. This is because when Kick Em Jenny was observed bubbling, so too were the waters in Grand Etang Lake. The Grand Etang Lake is 530 m above sea level and it is one of the two crater lakes on the island (the other being Lake Antoine).

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The Atlantic Ocean forms the coastline of the “Bissagos Islands”. The Bissagos Islands are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the African nation of Guinea-Bissau. The archipelago was formed from the ancient delta of the Rio Geba and the Rio Grande. There is a high diversity of ecosystems: mangroves with intertidal zones, palm forests, dry and semi-dry forests, secondary and degraded forests, coastal savanna, sandbanks and aquatic zones. The archipelago was declared in 1996 a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve—Bolama Bissagos Biosphere Reserve, known for animals including marine turtles, hippopotamus and the southern islands are today a nature reserve.

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Carpathian Basin is a geomorphological basin which includes the country Hungary. The Pannonian Basin or Carpathian Basin is a large basin in Central Europe. In terms of modern state boundaries, the basin centres on the territory of Hungary, but it also covers regions of western Slovakia, southeastern Poland, western Ukraine, western Romania, northern Serbia, the tip of northeast Croatia, northeastern Slovenia, and eastern Austria.

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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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There are total of 15 rivers in Lebanese Republic. All of the 15 rivers have their source of origin in the mountains of Lebanon itself.

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Asteroids are actually minor planets which can neither be classified either as a planet or as a comet.  These are generally in the direct orbit around the Sun, also known as the inner solar system. Mainly the known asteroids are present in the Jupiter Trojans or in the asteroid belt formed between the Mars’ orbit and that of Jupiter. Others are found in the solar system near Earth, termed as near-Earth asteroid.

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The Earth can be divided into four main layers: the solid crust on the outside, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. Out of them, the mantle is the thickest layer (extends from where the crust ends to about 2,890 km), while the crust is the thinnest layer. The crust ranges from 5–70 km in depth and is the outermost layer.

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The Eurasian Plate is a tectonic plate which includes most of the continent of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Europe and Asia), with the notable exceptions of the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in East Siberia.

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The Gulf Stream is a warm current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and moves north toward Europe. Since it is full of warm water, the sea surface temperatures are warm, which keeps places like Europe warmer than other areas at similar latitudes.