World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Crozet Islands are a subantarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, an overseas territory of France. These islands are uninhabited but widely patrolled by the French government.

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The Petralona cave, also Cave of the Red Stones, a karst formation, is located at 300 m above sea-level on the western foot of Mount Katsika, about 1 km east of the village of Petralona, about 35 km south-east of Thessaloniki city on the Chalkidiki peninsula, Greece. The site came to public attention when in 1960 a fossilized archaic human skull was found. The cave had been discovered accidentally only a year earlier (1959) after erosion had left clefts in the rock.

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Carpathian Basin is a geomorphological basin which includes the country Hungary. The Pannonian Basin or Carpathian Basin is a large basin in Central Europe. In terms of modern state boundaries, the basin centres on the territory of Hungary, but it also covers regions of western Slovakia, southeastern Poland, western Ukraine, western Romania, northern Serbia, the tip of northeast Croatia, northeastern Slovenia, and eastern Austria.

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Iceland houses the “Kleifarvatn Lake”. Kleifarvatn is the largest lake on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, situated in the southern part of the peninsula. It is located in the fissure zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The lake has no visible water coming in or going out as most of its water comes and leaves underground.

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The longest river of Malaysia is River Pahang. The river drains its water into the South China Sea by flowing eastwards. The total length of the river is about 459 km.

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Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America. It is located in the center of the continent and thus referred to as the ‘heart of South America’. The Paraguay river divides the country from North to South.

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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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As the river approaches the sea, the speed of the flowing water decreases, and the river begins to break up into several streams known as distributaries. Then a time comes when the river becomes very slow and it begins to deposit its load. Each distributary forms its own mouth. The collection of sediments from all the mouths forms a delta, which is a triangular landmass.

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The distance between two longitude lines is called gore. A gore is the curved surface which lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe. It refers to a sector of a curved surface. It is possible to flatten it to a plane surface with little distortion.

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The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal).