World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Sani Mountain Lodge is the highest pub or bar of Lesotho as well as of Africa. It is situated on the border area of Lesotho and South Africa and has an altitude of about 2874 meters.

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A Mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world’s mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have been important since before recorded history, and have played a key role in trade, war, and migration.

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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.

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The average temperature on Earth is about 61o F (16o C). But temperatures vary greatly around the world depending on the time of year, ocean and wind currents and weather conditions. Summers tend to be warmer and winters colder. Also, temperatures tend to be higher near the equator and lower near the poles.

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Typhoons are common in the China Sea and along the margins of the west Pacific Ocean.

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The Kali Gandaki Gorge is the gorge of the Kali Gandaki in the Himalayas in Nepal. The gorge separates the major peaks of Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) on the west and Annapurna (8,091 m) on the east. If one measures the depth of a canyon by the difference between the river height and the heights of the highest peaks on either side, the gorge is the world’s deepest.

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The midnight sun is a natural phenomenon occurring in summer months at places north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun remains visible at the local midnight. Around the solstice (June 21 in the north and December 21 in the south) and given fair weather the sun is visible for the full 24 hours. The number of days per year with potential midnight sun increases the farther towards either pole one goes.

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system, located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located off north-eastern Australia and runs more or less parallel to the coastline of the state of Queensland. It is a distinct feature of the East Australian Cordillera division.

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Coffee was the first crop to be cultivated under plantation agriculture in Sri Lanka. Though the Dutch had experimented with coffee cultivation in the 18th century, it was the British who began commercial production following the Colebrooke–Cameron Commission reforms (1833). By 1860, the country became a major coffee-producing nation in the world.

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A land cyclone is a rare weather system with a low-pressure center that forms over land, occurring only 14 times since 1891. A mesocyclone is an air vortex within a convective storm, with a diameter of 3.2 to 9.7 km. A subtropical cyclone combines features of tropical and extratropical cyclones and forms at lower sea surface temperatures than tropical cyclones. Wave cyclones, or extratropical cyclones, are low-pressure areas that develop in middle and high latitudes, primarily between 30° and 60° latitude.