World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Textiles have long been an important item of international trade. Trade in textiles amounts to 2.5 per cent in the total merchandise trade of the world and 3.4 per cent of the trade in manufactures. Asia and Western Europe account for the largest share in the world exports of textiles.

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Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital and largest city is Tbilisi. The lari is the currency of Georgia.

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Kaieteur Falls is the world’s largest single-drop waterfall by the volume of water flowing over it. Located on the Potaro River in the Kaieteur National Park, it sits in a section of the Amazon rainforest included in the Potaro-Siparuni region of Guyana.

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Carpathian Basin is a geomorphological basin which includes the country Hungary. The Pannonian Basin or Carpathian Basin is a large basin in Central Europe. In terms of modern state boundaries, the basin centres on the territory of Hungary, but it also covers regions of western Slovakia, southeastern Poland, western Ukraine, western Romania, northern Serbia, the tip of northeast Croatia, northeastern Slovenia, and eastern Austria.

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The Bayanaul national park is situated in the Pavlodar province of Kazakhstan. It was established in 1985.

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The longest river of the Republic of Moldova is the river Dniester. It originates in Ukraine and flows through Moldova and it ends its journey in the Black sea after again flowing through Ukraine.

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Stratigraphy is the scientific discipline (branch of Geology) concerned with the description of rock successions and their interpretation in terms of a general time scale. It provides a basis for historical geology, and its principles and methods have found application in such fields as petroleum geology and archaeology.

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The term benthos derives from the Greek word bathys, meaning deep. Benthos refers collectively to all aquatic organisms which live on, in, or near the bottom of ocean. This community lives in or near marine sedimentary environments, from tidal pools along the foreshore, out to the continental shelf, and then down to the abyssal depths.

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Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali. In 2006, it was estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth-fastest in the world. It is the seventh- largest West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar, and Accra. It is located on the Niger River.

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Birmingham, one of the seats of Industrial Revolution, has traditionally been known for its iron and steel industry. Famous as “the first manufacturing town in the world” in 1791, today the city’s products include: motor vehicles, vehicle components and accessories, weapons, electrical equipment, plastics, machine tools, chemicals, food, jewellery and glass.