World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Iceland houses the “Thingvallavatn Lake”. It is a rift valley lake in southwestern Iceland. It is the second-largest natural lake in Iceland. At the northern shore of the lake the Althingi, the national parliament, was founded in the year 930 A.D. and held its sessions there until 1799 is carried by the parliament of Iceland. The lake lies partially within Thingvellir National Park. The volcanic origin of the islands in the lake is clearly visible.

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The Israel, a country in the western Asian continent, is located on the northern shore of Red Sea.

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The island country of Japan lies in the North west Pacific ocean which is the largest and deepest ocean of the world.

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Jordan is an Arab country which lies in the western Asian continent. It has a total area of about 89,342 Sq. Km.

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The longest river of Lebanese Republic is River Litani which is about 140 kilometers long. It originates in the fertile Beqaa valley. At end, it meets the Mediterranean Sea.

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Jupiter’s radius is about 1/10 the radius of the Sun, and its mass is 0.001 times the mass of the Sun. Jupiter’s mass is 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined—this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun lies above the Sun’s surface at 1.068 solar radii from the Sun’s center.

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The Kali Gandaki Gorge is the gorge of the Kali Gandaki in the Himalayas in Nepal. The gorge separates the major peaks of Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) on the west and Annapurna (8,091 m) on the east. If one measures the depth of a canyon by the difference between the river height and the heights of the highest peaks on either side, the gorge is the world’s deepest.

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Temperate grasslands are known as Prairies in North America, Pampas in South America, Veld in Southern Africa and Steppe in Asia. Temperate grasslands are located north of the Tropic of Cancer (23.50 North) and south of the Tropic of Capricorn (23.50 South).

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The Arctic Ocean has the widest continental shelf of all the oceans; it extends 1,210 km seaward from Siberia. From the shelf rise numerous islands, including the Arctic Archipelago, Novaya Zemlya, the New Siberian Islands, and Wrangle Island. Continental shelves are an extension of coastal plains and are characterized by broadly-sloping submerged plains.

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Lake Maracaibo is a brackish tidal bay in Venezuela, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea and one of the world’s oldest lakes. Lake Kivu, a freshwater lake in Africa, spans Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and poses an explosion risk due to high levels of dissolved gases. Lake Victoria is the largest lake by area in Africa, while Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa, is situated between Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.