World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Hungary houses the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Hortobagy National Park”. Hortobagy is a national park in eastern Hungary, rich with folklore and cultural history. The park, a part of the Alfold (Great Plain), was designated as a national park in 1973 (the first in Hungary) and elected among the World Heritage sites in 1999. The Hortobagy is Hungary’s largest protected area and the largest semi-natural grassland in Europe.

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Tisza River was once also called “the most Hungarian river”. The Tisza is one of the main rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Once, it was called “the most Hungarian river” because it flowed entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia are the basin countries of this river.

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India is ranked 2 in coal production in the world. The top coal-producing countries are China, India, USA, and Indonesia.

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Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 and an area of 103,000 km2, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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The Dead sea, also known as salt sea, is the largest lake of Republic of Jordan. It is a salt lake which is bordered by Jordan to the east.

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The Republic of Lithuania is situated in the Baltic region of eastern Europe. It shares its boundary in the west with Baltic Sea.

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• The inner layers are the Core, Radiative Zone and Convection Zone. The outer layers are the Photosphere, the Chromosphere, the Transition Region and the Corona.
• The photosphere is the deepest layer of the Sun that we can observe directly. Most of the photosphere is covered by granulation.
• The chromosphere is a layer in the Sun above the solar surface (the photosphere). In this layer (and higher layers) it actually gets hotter if you go further away from the Sun, unlike in the lower layers, where it gets hotter if you go closer to the center of the Sun.
• The transition region is a very narrow (60 miles / 100 km) layer between the chromosphere and the corona where the temperature rises abruptly.
• The corona is the outermost layer of the Sun. The corona cannot be seen with the naked eye except during a total solar eclipse, or with the use of a coronagraph. The corona does not have an upper limit.

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The Limpopo River cuts through the Tropic of Capricorn twice. It rises in Transvaal and flows through South Africa, Botswana and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. The Limpopo is the second largest river in Africa that drains to the Indian Ocean, after the Zambezi River.

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An evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests reign in the equatorial region, between the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.

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Yosemite Falls is the highest measured waterfall in North America. Located in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California in the United States, it is a major attraction in the park, especially in late spring when the water flow is at its peak.