World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Guadeloupe is an archipelago forming an overseas region of France located where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. This archipelago forms part of the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles archipelago. Guadeloupe is located between two countries in which Antigua and Barbuda lies to the north and Dominica lies to the south. The British Overseas Territory of Montserrat is located to the north of Guadeloupe.

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon, also known as the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Therefore, Canada is the only country that shares a maritime boundary with Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It is the only part of New France that remains under French control. Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands are situated in the Gulf of St.Lawrence near the entrance of Fortune Bay, in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The Canada-France Maritime Boundary Case was a dispute between Canada and France that was decided in 1992 by an arbitral tribunal created by the parties to resolve the dispute. The decision established the extent of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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The Rhone River is an 813-kilometer long river rises from the Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France. After reaching its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, the river divides into two branches known as the Great Rhone and the Little Rhone. The resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region. This river is one of the major rivers of Europe and is twice the average discharge of the Loire, which is the longest river in France.

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The Pindus is a mountain range located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2,637m (Mount Smolikas). Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and Epirus, the Pindus range is known colloquially as the “spine of Greece”. The mountain range stretches from near the Greek-Albanian border in Northern Epirus, entering the Epirus and Macedonia regions in northern Greece down to the north of the Peloponnese. Geologically it is an extension of the Dinaric Alps, which dominate the western region of the Balkan Peninsula.

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Iceland is the basin country of the “Hvita River”. Hvita is a river in Iceland that begins at the Hvitarvatn glacier lake on the Langjokull glacier in the highlands of Iceland. The river flows for 40 kilometres before dropping down into a narrow gorge at the Gullfoss waterfall. Because of the danger of flooding, especially in the winter, it has the reputation of being the most dangerous river in Iceland.

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The Republic of Kenya is located in eastern Africa. It shares its border with Lake Victoria in the west and Indian Ocean in the east.

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The largest lake of the Laos People’s Democratic Republic is Nam Ngum. Its total catchment area is 370 sq. km.

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A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault. It is formed by the subsidence of a segment of the Earth’s crust between dip-slip, or normal, faults.

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The Chinook winds are known as snow eater. Along the eastern slopes of the Rockies, they are warm, dry winds that provide a welcome respite from the long winter chill. The hot winds melt and dry the winter snow making grazing possible throughout the winter. Chinook is associated with warm weather; it does not lead to rainfall in the Prairies.

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The Sahara is the largest subtropical hot desert and third largest desert after Antarctica and the Arctic. At over 9,400,000 square kilometres, it covers most of North Africa, making it almost as large as China or the United States. In terms of area, the Arabian and the Kalahari Deserts come at second and third places among subtropical deserts.