World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Kyrgyzstan is a landlocked country situated in the central Asian region. The largest lake of Kyrgyz Republic is Issyk-Kul which is located about 1600 meter above the mean sea level.

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The Razna National Park is situated in the Latgale region of Latvia. It was designated in the year 2007 and it covers an area of about 596 sq. km.

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The longest river of Republic of Nicaragua is river Rio Coco. It is located in the Somoto Canyon, Madriz department, Nicaragua. Its total length is about 750 km.

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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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An equinox is an astronomical event in which the plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun, which occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September. The equinoxes are the only times when the Sun is exactly overhead at a point on the equatorial line.On an equinox, day and night are of approximately equal duration all over the planet.

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The Himalayan mountains have come out of a great geosyncline called the Tethys Sea. About 120 million years ago, there were only two big continents in the world- in the north was Laurasia or Angara land and in the southern hemisphere was Gondwanaland. In between Laurasia and Gondwanaland, there was a long, narrow and shallow sea called Tethys Sea. Sediments were brought by the rivers from these landmasses and deposited in the bed of the sea. the Himalayas was formed by the compression and crushing of these sediments.

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The climate is characterized by warm to hot, dry summers and mild to cool, wet winters. Mediterranean climate zones are associated with the five large subtropical high pressure cells of the oceans: the Azores High, South Atlantic High, North Pacific High, South Pacific High, and Indian Ocean High. These high pressure cells shift towards the poles in the summer and towards the equator in the winter, playing a major role in the formation of the world’s tropical deserts and the Mediterranean Basin’s climate.

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Land breeze is a local wind system characterized by a flow from land to water late at night. Land breezes alternate with sea breezes along coastlines adjacent to large bodies of water. Both are induced by differences that occur between the heating or cooling of the water surface and the adjacent land surface.

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Polar climates feature long and dark winter periods with extremely cold temperatures. Rainfall is low, and the deeper soil layers stay frozen all year round. These harsh conditions combined result in treeless, sparse vegetation, which includes shrubs, lichens and mosses, during summer months. This typical vegetation linked to polar climates is called tundra.

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Poland is home to numerous stunning lakes, with Lake Hańcza standing out as the deepest, reaching depths that make it unique in the country.