World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Koungou Falls is a massive cataract  located in Ivindo National Park in eastern Gabon. It is located on the Ivindo River and is one of the strongest-flowing waterfalls in the world with an average flow of 900 cubic metres per second. It is reputed to be the most beautiful waterfall in Central Africa. This part of the Ivindo River is a major centre of fish biodiversity. The falls are within Ivindo National Park, created in 2002 to protect among other things this beautiful and biologically diverse stretch of river.

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The Iori Plateau, also known as Gare-Kakheti Plateau, is a plateau between the Kura and Alazani rivers in southeastern Georgia, transected by the Iori River. The elevation of the plateau is between 200 metres and 900 metres. The soils are predominantly chernozem. A significant portion of the plateau is occupied by steppes, such as Shiraki Plain in its eastern part.

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Benin does not share a border with Ghana. Ghana is a country located along the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Ghana is bordered by the Cote D’Ivoire in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east, the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean in the south.

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The Sierra de Los Cuchumatanes is the highest non-volcanic mountain range in Central America. Its elevations range from 500 m to over 3,800 m. It is also the most extensive highland region in Central America. The Sierra de Los Cuchumatanes is located in western Guatemala. Its western and south-western borders are marked by the Selegua River, which separates it from the Sierra Madre volcanic chain. Its southern border is defined by the Rio Negro, which flows into the Chixoy River.

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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 Caspian Sea lies to the north of Iran. Iran is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia and Azerbaijan, to the north by the Caspian Sea, to the northeast by Turkmenistan, to the east by Afghanistan, to the southeast by Pakistan, to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. It is the second-largest country in the Middle East, and its capital and largest city is Tehran.

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The Republic of Marshall is situated in the Pacific Ocean. The highest point of the country is Likiep Atoll which is about 10 meters above mean sea level.

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At the equator, 1o of latitude or longitude represents approximately 111 km (approximately 70 miles). A degree of longitude is widest at the equator at 69.172 miles (111.321 km) and gradually shrinks to zero at the poles. At 40° north or south the distance between a degree of longitude is 53 miles (85 km).

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The lowest part of the troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.

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The driest location on Earth lies in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The location is called Maria Elena South (MES). The site has a mean atmospheric relative humidity (RH) of 17.3 per cent and a soil RH of a constant 14 percent at a depth of one meter.