World & Physical Geography MCQs

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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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The highest peak of Republic of Mali is Mount Hombori Tondo. It is located in the Mopti region of Mali. Its total height is 1155 meter above the mean sea level.

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The Khyargas Nuur National park is a salt lake located in the great lakes basins of Mongolia. The lake is known for hot springs. It was established in the year f 1997.

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The Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan is the long and narrow glacier, currently extending for 77 kilometres (48 mi) and covering over 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi). It is the longest glacier in the world outside of the Polar Regions. Hence, option (d) is correct.

Context: Siachen Glacier is the Second-Longest glacier in the World’s Non-Polar areas. Recently mountaineer Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar, who helped India secure the Siachen Glacier, Col Kumar, who was awarded the Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri, Arjun award and the McGregor medal, carried out multiple expeditions in the Siachen glacier area in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Weathering is the breaking up of the rocks on the earth’s surface. Erosion is the wearing away of the landscape by different agents like water, wind and ice.

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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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Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. In the Northern Hemisphere this is the 21st December solstice and in the Southern Hemisphere this is the 21st June solstice. Solstices are opposite on either side of the equator, so the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere and vice versa.

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Spring Tides refer to either of the two tides that occur at or just after new moon and full moon when the tide-generating force of the sun acts in the same direction as that of the moon, reinforcing it and causing the greatest rise and fall in tidal level. The highest spring tides (equinoctial springs) occur at the equinoxes.

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Llanos is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It also refers to the flatland area encompassing the Chilean Central Valley between Valdivia and Osorno.

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Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2.The country is situated in Western-Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.