World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Sanetti Plateau is a major plateau located in the Ethiopian Highlands of Ethiopia. This plateau is located within Bale Mountain National Park, which forms part of the Bale Mountains. This plateau is home to the rare and endangered Ethiopian Wolves and it was also once a habitat to the endangered painted hunting dog.

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Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country located on Northern Europe, bordered by Sweden to the west, Russia to the east, and Norway to the north. Baltic Sea forms the coastline of Finland to the south and south-west. More specifically, the Baltic Sea’s two important parts-one is the Gulf of Bothnia, which forms the coastline of Finland to the west and south-west and the other part Gulf of Finland forms the coastline of Finland to the south. Gulf of Bothnia, which is a part of the Baltic Sea, is located between Sweden, to the west, and Finland, to the east. The Gulf of Finland, which is a part of the Baltic Sea, is located between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south. The Gulf of Finland is surrounded by and forms the coastline of Finland, Russia, and Estonia, thereby forming the basin countries of the Gulf of Finland. The capital of Finland is Helsinki, which is the most populous city in Finland. The official currency of Finland is Euro. The parliament name of Finland is “Eduskunta Riksdagen”, which is a unicameral legislature.

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The Mediterranean Sea forms the coastline to the south of Greece. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country located in Southeast Europe. Athens is it’s largest and capital city. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. It shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length.

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The “Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves” is an important ecoregion of continent South America. The Amazon-Orinoco-Southern Caribbean mangroves is a neotropical mangrove ecoregion along the coasts of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana and Brazil.

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Hispaniola Island houses the country “Haiti”. Haiti is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, to the east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic.

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Trou Caiman is a saltwater lake in Haiti known for its excellent birdwatching opportunities. The lake is semi-endorheic as seasonally it overflows into a straightened channel which is shallow to the east into endorheic Lake Azuei.

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The highest mountain peak of Kazakhstan is Mramornaya Stena. It is about 6126 meters high above the mean sea level.

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• Taurus–Littrowis a lunar valley located on the near side. It served as the landing site for the American Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, the last crewed mission to the Moon.
• Shortyis a feature on Earth’s Moon, an impact crater in the Taurus Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. It is the location of the famous “orange soil,” which geologists believe to be small bits of rapidly-cooled molten rock ejected in a fire fountain.
• Mare Serenitatisis a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon. Mare is a large, level basalt plain on the surface of the moon, appearing dark by contrast with highland areas.
• Mare Vaporum is a lunar mare located between the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium.

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Marble is a metamorphic rock that forms when limestone is subjected to the heat and pressure of metamorphism. It is composed primarily of the mineral calcite (CaCO3) and usually contains other minerals, such as clay minerals, micas, quartz, pyrite, iron oxides, and graphite. Under the conditions of metamorphism, the calcite in the limestone recrystallizes to form a rock that is a mass of interlocking calcite crystals.

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Dasht-e Kavir is great salt desert of north-central Iran. Located in a basin southeast of the Elburz Mountains, it is approximately390 km wide. The desert is distinguished by its salt crust, caused by the almost rainless climate and intense surface evaporation, lying over treacherous quick sand like salt marshes that are almost uninhabited.