World & Physical Geography MCQs

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North America and Europe, the two great focal regions of air routes have the most elaborate systems of air transport. Of these two areas the North American region is more important. North America leads not only in international routes converging here but also has a high density of domestic air routes.

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Rotumans are the indigenous inhabitants of the Rotuma island group located in Fiji, an island country located in the Oceania geographic region of the South Pacific Ocean. They have characteristics of all Micronesian, Melanesian and Polynesian people of the Pacific Ocean.

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Iceland houses the glacier-capped stratovolcano “Snaefellsjokull”. It is a 700,000-year-old glacier-capped stratovolcano in western Iceland. The mountain is one of the most famous sites of Iceland, primarily due to the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne, in which the protagonists find the entrance to a passage leading to the centre of the earth on Snaefellsjokull.

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Lake Biwa is the largest fresh water lake in Japan. It is about 4 million years old. Its length is about 63.49 Km and width is about 22.8 km.

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The Western Tien Shan is situated in the Jalal-Abad province of Kyrgyzstan. It was designated as world heritage site in 2015.

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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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The largest lake of Montenegro is Lake Skadar. It is located on the border of Albania and Montenegro. It is named after the city of Shkoder in Albania. Its total area varies between 370-530 sq. km.

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• Taurus–Littrowis a lunar valley located on the near side. It served as the landing site for the American Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon.
• Shortyis a feature on Earth’s Moon, an impact crater in the Taurus Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. It is the location of the famous “orange soil,” which geologists believe to be small bits of rapidly-cooled molten rock ejected in a fire fountain.
• Mare Serenitatisis a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Mare is a large, level basalt plain on the surface of the moon, appearing dark by contrast with highland areas.
• Mare Vaporum is a lunar mare located between the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium.

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Since the demotion of Pluto as a planet in 2006, Neptune is now the farthest major planet from the Sun. At 4.5 billion km (2.8 billion miles) from the Sun, it orbits at 5.45 km (3.38 miles) per second, taking 164.79 years to complete one orbit.

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During summer season, regions of Mediterranean climate are dominated by subtropical high pressure cells, making rainfall impossible or unlikely except for the occasional thunderstorm. During winter the polar jet stream and associated periodic storms bring heavy rain. Precipitation is heavier during the colder months.