World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Iceland houses the glacial canyon “Asbyrgi”. It is a glacial canyon and forest in the north of Iceland, located on the Diamond Circle road. The horseshoe-shaped depression is part of the Vatnajokull National Park. The canyon’s steep sides are formed by cliffs. Asbyrgi was most likely formed by catastrophic glacial flooding of the river Jokulsa a Fjollum after the last Ice Age, first 8-10,000 years ago, and then again some 3,000 years ago.

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Java Island is the world’s most populous island. Java is an island of Indonesia, bordered by the Indian Ocean on the south and the Java Sea on the north. With a population of over 148 million, Java constitutes 56.1 per cent of the Indonesian population and is the world’s most populous island.

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Indonesia’s sovereign territory now includes “Netherlands New Guinea”. Netherlands New Guinea refers to the Papua region of Indonesia while it was a part of the Dutch East Indies until 1949, later an overseas territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1949 to 1962. It was commonly known as Dutch New Guinea. It contained what are now Indonesia’s two easternmost provinces, Papua and West Papua, which were administered as a single province prior to 2003.

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Iraq forms the mouth of the “Tigris River”. The Tigris is eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts and empties into the Persian Gulf.

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The longest river of Italian Republic is Po river. It is about 682 km longs and originates from Cottian Alps and drains its water into Mediterranean Sea.

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Mercury, Venus, and Mars have chemical and physical properties similar to Earth and are all referred to as terrestrial planets. The word ‘terrestrial’ comes from the Latin word terra, meaning ‘land.’ On the other end of the spectrum are the gas giants known as the Jovian planets.  These are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.  They are labeled Jovian after Jupiter, the largest of the group. The word ‘Jovian’ comes from Jove, another name for the Roman god Jupiter.

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Granite is high in quartz and is highly resistant to erosion.

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The Alps are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe. It stretches approximately 1,200 kilometres across eight Alpine countries: France, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.

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El Azizia had the distinction of having recorded a high temperature of 57.8 °C in 1922 which was long considered the highest temperature ever measured on Earth. However, the World Meteorological Organization, in September 2012, announced that the world record for hottest temperature is now 56.7 °C recorded on 10 July, 1913 at Greenland Ranch in Death Valley, California, USA.

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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa. The Kalahari sand dunes, some of which stretch west to the Namib Desert, compose the largest continuous expanse of sand on earth.