World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Acarai Mountains are a wet, forested highland region of low mountains located in the southern part of Guyana. This range lies along the common border between Guyana and Brazil. The Acarai Mountains is one of four mountain ranges in Guyana, the others being the Imataka, Kanuku and Pakaraima mountains.

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The Pacific Ocean forms the coastline to the south of Honduras. Honduras is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.

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Iceland houses the second most powerful waterfall in Europe “Dettifoss Waterfall”. Dettifoss is a waterfall in Vatnajokull National Park in Northeast Iceland and is reputed to be the second most powerful waterfall in Europe after the Rhine Falls. Dettifoss is situated on the Jokulsa a Fjollum river, which flows from the Vatnajokull glacier and collects water from a large area in Northeast Iceland. It is the second-largest waterfall in Iceland in terms of volume discharge

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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 the Kingdom of Norway is Glomma . The Glomma, or Glåma, is Norway’s most voluminous river. The total length of the river Glomma is 621 Kilometer.

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The Orion constellation has 81 visible stars, including some of the brightest and most important stars in the night sky. The brightest star in the constellation is Rigel, which is 40,000 times brighter than the sun and emits 100,000 times the energy.

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Magnetosphere is the region above the Earth’s surface in which charged particles are affected by the Earth’s magnetic field. The exosphere is now considered as part of the magnetosphere. The outer boundary of the magnetosphere or the final boundary between the Earth and outer space is known its magnetopause.

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The term “smog” was first used in London during the early 1900’s to describe the combination of smoke and fog. What we typically call “smog” today is a mixture of pollutants but is primarily made up of ground-level ozone.

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In sea, vegetations are found upto the depth of 200 m.

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Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is named after the Tswana word Kgala, meaning “the great thirst”, or Kgalagadi, meaning “a waterless place”. It has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water. It extends 900,000 km2 covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.