World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Large units where sheep are reared in Australia are called sheep stations. The term applied to large animal farms in
South America is estancias. The ranches or sheep stations consist of large areas of natural pasture and also the ranch house and some area devoted to supplementary feed crops.

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Kemijoki River is a 550km long river located in Finland. This river is the longest river in Finland. This river runs through Kemijarvi and Rovaniemi provinces of Finland before draining at the Gulf of Bothnia at Kemi, a town of Finland. The hydroelectric plant located in this river contributes to 34.5% of Finland’s total hydroelectric production.

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Piton de la Fournaise is a 2632 meters high active stratovolcano located in the Reunion Island, an overseas region of France located in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world. This volcano is located within the Reunion National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is also a major tourist attraction on Reunion Island.

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Japan is an island country in the north west Pacific ocean and Russia lies in the north of Japan.

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The Republic of Jordan is an Arab country which lies in the west Asia region. Israel shares its borders with Jordan in the immediate East.

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The Islets National Park is made up of eight small islands. Ile D’Ambre an island is the largest among the eight small islands. Other than these eight islands seven islands have been made as Natural Reserves.

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The longest river of the Republic of Macedonia is river Vardar. The river is around 388 kilometer long. The basin area of the river is around 25,000 sq.Km.

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There are two ways in which scientists quantify the size of earthquakes : magnitude and intensity. Magnitude measures the energy released at the source of the earthquake; Intensity measures the strength of shaking produced by the earthquake at a certain location. The Richter Scale is used for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes. Mercalli scale is used to measure intensity of earthquakes.

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The Richter magnitude of an earthquake is determined from the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs. Because of the logarithmic basis of the scale, each increase of one unit on the scale represents a 10-fold increase in the magnitude of an earthquake. Two points on the Richter scale e.g., from 4 to 6 or from 5 to 7, corresponds to about 1000 times the energy release.

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Pakistan is known as country of Canals due to its extensive network of canals from Indus and its tributaries. Most of Pakistan’s canals are in Punjab province that are result of India’s partition which saw most of the canals going to the former. During India’s partition, Punjab was divided into West Punjab which came to be part of Pakistan and East Punjab which remained with India. East Punjab in India was relatively underdeveloped in irrigation works, while West Punjab in Pakistan included most of the canal systems of the pre-partition Indus basin.