World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Pipeline transport provides easy and quick movement of liquid products over long distance with minimum loss in transit, of the product carried. US, Western Europe and the countries of Middle East are the three major areas with the largest network of pipelines.

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The Meuse River is a 925 kilometer long major European river rises/originates from the Grand Est region of France and then flows through Belgium and Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta. The Meuse and its crossings were a key objective of the last major German World War II counter-offensive on the Western Front, the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944/45.

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The Didi Abuli Mountain is located in Georgia. Didi Abuli, which forms part of the Abul-Samsari Range, is one of the highest peaks of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains in the nation of Georgia. The mountain is located in the Abul-Samsari Range at an elevation of 3,300 m above sea level. Didi Abuli is an extinct stratovolcano.

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The Dominican Republic is the only country that shares a land border with “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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The longest river of Ireland is River Shannon which is about 360 Km long. Shannon river separates midlands of Ireland from west of the island.

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Cliff is a high and extremely steep rock face that approaches the vertical, either inland or along a coastline. Cirque refers to a deep rounded hollow having steep sides, formed through erosion by snow and ice. Dune is a hill or ridge of sand accumulated and sorted by wind action.

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The significant quantity of upper soil is formed by Sedimentary rock.

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Nigeria is the most populous and oil rich country in Africa.

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The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a railway base tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland. It opened on 1 June 2016, and full service began on 11 December 2016.With a route length of 57.09 km, it is the world’s longest and deepest traffic tunnel and the first flat, low-level route through the Alps.

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Permafrost is ground that remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years, covering 15% of Earth’s land area (over 23 million sq.km). It is primarily found in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in Russia, Canada, and Greenland, and also occurs in mountainous regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Permafrost can form on land and beneath oceans, sometimes extending deep below the surface. It can create landforms such as ‘palsas’ (peat mounds with frozen cores) and ‘pingos’ (ice-cored hills).