World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Persian Gulf forms the coastline to the country Iraq. Iraq, is a country in Western Asia, bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest and Syria to the west. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. Iraq has a coastline measuring 58 km on the northern Persian Gulf.

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The largest lake in Kenya is Lake Turkana. It covers an area about 6405 sq. km. It is the world’s largest desert lake.

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The largest lake of Republic of Maldives is Lake Bandaara. It is located in the Fuvahmulah, Maldives. Its total area is about 0.058 sq. km.

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Montenegro is a Balkan country located in the Adriatic sea in the southeast Europe. It shares its borders with Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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The highest peak of the Kingdom of New Zealand is Mount Cook. The total length of the Mount Cook is about 3,724 meter high above mean sea level. The peak is situated in the Southern Alps ranges.

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A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland caused due to the fissure in the earth along which one side moves down with reference to the other. It is commonly seen between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. A rift valley is formed on a divergent plate boundary, a crustal extension, a spreading apart of the surface.

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The reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air is known as temperature inversion. Inversions play an important role in determining cloud forms, precipitation, and visibility.

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The Sargasso Sea is a region in the gyre in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Sargasso Sea is home to seaweed of the genus Sargassum (origin of its name), which floats en masse on the surface there.

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The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system, located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia. It is located off north-eastern Australia and runs more or less parallel to the coastline of the state of Queensland. It is a distinct feature of the East Australian Cordillera division.

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Mount Sinabung, a stratovolcano, located in North Sumatra, Indonesia, erupted in May 2016. Seven persons were killed in the wake of its eruption. The 2,460- metre (8,070 foot) tall volcano is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt of seismic activity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean.