World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Strait of Dover, also known as the Dover Strait or the Dover Narrows, is a naturally formed narrow navigable waterway located in the Atlantic Ocean that connects the English Channel to the North Sea, thereby separates Great Britain from continental Europe. The entire strait is located between and within the territorial waters of France and the United Kingdom, but a right of transit passage under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) exists allowing unrestricted shipping. Most maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea and Baltic sea passes through the Strait of Dover, rather than taking the longer and more dangerous route around the north of Scotland.

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Russia and Georgia are the two countries that share the location of the “Mount Kazbek”. Mount Kazbegi or Mount Kazbek is a dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus located on the border of Georgia’s Kazbegi District and Russian Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. It is the third-highest peak in Georgia (after Mount Shkhara and Janga) and the seventh-highest summit in the Caucasus Mountains. Kazbegi is also the second-highest volcanic summit in the Caucasus, after Mount Elbrus. The summit lies directly to the west of the town of Stepantsminda and is the most prominent geographic feature of the area. Mount Kazbek is the highest peak of Eastern Georgia.

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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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Jamaica is situated in the Greater Antilles, group of Islands. It includes countries like Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico etc.

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The longest river of the country is river Niger which is about 4,180 km long out of which about 1,700 km flows through Mali. It is the third-longest river of Africa.

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The Island nation of Palau is located in Oceania, in the western pacific ocean. It is situated over an area of 466 square kilometers. It is the 4th smallest country population-wise and 16th smallest country by area in the world.

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The reversal of the normal behaviour of temperature in the troposphere in which a layer of cool air at the surface is overlain by a layer of warmer air is known as temperature inversion. Inversions play an important role in determining cloud forms, precipitation, and visibility.

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Sleet is precipitation composed of rain and partially melted snow. It forms when rain, while falling to the earth, passes through a layer of cold air and freezes. Sleet occurs when the temperature in the lowest part of the atmosphere is slightly above the freezing point of water (0 °C).

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The Harmattan, a dry, dusty, north-easterly or easterly wind which occurs in West Africa north of the equator, is known as the Doctor. The weather becomes suddenly dry and pleasant in the western coast of Africa, at the arrival of Harmattan. The harmattan season is from the end of November to the middle of March.

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The Black Forest is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany. It is bounded by the Rhine valley to the west and south. It is the highest part of the South German Scarplands and much of it is densely wooded.