World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Pindus is a mountain range located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2,637m (Mount Smolikas). Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and Epirus, the Pindus range is known colloquially as the “spine of Greece”. The mountain range stretches from near the Greek-Albanian border in Northern Epirus, entering the Epirus and Macedonia regions in northern Greece down to the north of the Peloponnese. Geologically it is an extension of the Dinaric Alps, which dominate the western region of the Balkan Peninsula.

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The Canje River, located in northeastern Guyana, is the main tributary of the Berbice River. It runs roughly parallel to the Atlantic Ocean coast. The Dutch established an outpost, Concordia Post, on the river. In 1763 a slave revolt began on two plantations on the Canje River.

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Indonesia’s sovereign territory now includes “Netherlands New Guinea”. Netherlands New Guinea refers to the Papua region of Indonesia while it was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It was commonly known as Dutch New Guinea. It contained what are now Indonesia’s two easternmost provinces, Papua and West Papua, which were administered as a single province prior to 2003.

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The island of Ireland lies in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is separated from United Kingdom by North Channel.

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Whitsun Reef or the Julian Felipe Reef is a part of the Spratly Islands located in the South China Sea. It is a boomerang shaped reef that forms the largest reef structure in the Union Banks atoll. It is disputed between China and Philippines. Philippines considers the reef to be within its exclusive economic zone.

Nine dash line is a demarcation line that is being used by China to stake claim in a large part of the South China Sea. This demarcation is based on unverified historical accounts. In 2013, when Philippines took China to court at the Hague, the court ruled in favor of Philippines. In 2016, the nine dash line was declared unlawful under the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).

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The Afriski, the skiing and snowboarding resort, is located in the Maloti Mountain ranges of Lesotho. It is situated at a height of 3222 meters above the mean sea level.

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The longest river of the Kingdom of New Zealand is river Waikatu. It originates in the southern slopes of mountain Ruapehu. It is about 425 kilometer long.

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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon crosses the path between the sun and the earth. The darkest shadow (where the sun is completely covered) is called the umbra. The umbra is narrow at the distance of the Earth, and a total eclipse is observable only within the narrow strip of land or sea over which the umbra passes. The partial shadow is called the penumbra.

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In the Northern Hemisphere the summer solstice, the longest day and shortest night of the year, occurs around June 21st. The opposite day, the shortest of the year, is the Winter Solstice, which occurs around 21 December each year.

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Coffee was the first crop to be cultivated under plantation agriculture in Sri Lanka. Though the Dutch had experimented with coffee cultivation in the 18th century, it was the British who began commercial production following the Colebrooke–Cameron Commission reforms (1833). By 1860, the country became a major coffee-producing nation in the world.