World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Esmeraldas River is a river located in northwestern Ecuador. Guayllabamba River forms its tributary. Esmeraldas River drains into the Pacific Ocean. This river forms part of the Esmeraldas-Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion.

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Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, with a population of 356,991 and an area of 103,000 km2, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

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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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Iraq forms the mouth of the “Euphrates River”. The Euphrates is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia. Originating in the Armenian Highlands of eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.

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The main reason for the rising of sea level and disappearing of islands of Kiribati is Global warming and climate change. Because of global warming, the islands of Kiribati are becoming uninhabitable.

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The longest river of South Korea is Han river. It is about 494 km long and have a basin of 35,770 sq. km.

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The deepest mine in the world, is in South Africa. It is about 4 km. deep. In search for oil, engineers have dug a hole about 6 km. deep.

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Coal is an organic sedimentary rock that forms mainly from plant debris. The plant debris usually accumulates in a swamp environment.

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The Earth can be divided into four main layers: the solid crust on the outside, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. Out of them, the mantle is the thickest layer (extends from where the crust ends to about 2,890 km), while the crust is the thinnest layer. The crust ranges from 5–70 km in depth and is the outermost layer.

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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.