World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Liberia, Guinea, Ivory Coast are the three countries that share the location of the mountain range “Nimba Range”. The Nimba Range forms part of the southern extent of the Guinea Highlands. The highest peak is Mount Richard-Molard on the border of Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea, at 1,752 m. Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve of Guinea and Ivory Coast covers significant portions of the Nimba Range.

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Senegal does share a land border with Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa. It borders Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south-east.

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Indonesia administers the “Raja Ampat Islands”. Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago located off the northwest tip of Bird’s Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in Indonesia’s West Papua province. It comprises over 1,500 small islands, cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau. The Raja Ampat archipelago straddles the Equator and forms part of the Coral Triangle which contains the richest marine biodiversity on earth.

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The Jordan river is the most famous and longest river of Israel. Its total length is about 251 km and it originates from the southern slopes of Mount Hermon.

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The Jeju Volcanic island and lava tubes is situated on the Jeju island of South Korea. It was designated as the world heritage site in 2007.

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Mount Wilhelm is the highest peak of the PNG with an elevation of 4509m. It is also known as Enduwa Kombughu in local Kuman. This peak is also the highest peak in Oceania(including New Zealand & Australia).

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Pulsars are spinning neutron stars that have jets of particles moving almost at the speed of light streaming out above their magnetic poles. These jets produce very powerful beams of light.

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Cliff is a high and extremely steep rock face that approaches the vertical, either inland or along a coastline. Cirque refers to a deep rounded hollow having steep sides, formed through erosion by snow and ice. Dune is a hill or ridge of sand accumulated and sorted by wind action.

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The significant quantity of upper soil is formed by Sedimentary rock.

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Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia that is sandwiched between Russia to the north and China to the south, where it neighbours the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.It is the world’s second-largest landlocked country behind Kazakhstan and the largest landlocked country that does not border a closed sea.