World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Vanoise National Park is an IUCN Category II national park located in the Alps region of France which contains Vanoise Massif and Grande Casse Mountain, the highest mountain of Vanoise. This national park is France’s first national park. This park is well known for its population of Alpine Ibex.

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Mount Seemeru is an active volcano located in East Java, Indonesia. The volcano is located in the subduction zone where the Indo-Australia plate subducts under the Eurasia plate. The Mount Semeru is a stratovolcano.

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The Saronic Islands or Argo-Saronic Islands is an archipelago in Greece, named after the Saronic Gulf in which they are located, just off the Greek mainland. The islands of Hydra and Dokos, which lie off the northeast tip of the Peloponnese (technically between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf), are sometimes included as part of the Saronic Islands.

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The Atlantic Ocean forms the coastline of the Shell Beach of Guyana. Shell Beach, located on the Atlantic coast of Guyana in the Barima-Waini Region, near the Venezuelan border, is a nesting site for four of the eight sea turtle species – the Green, Hawksbill turtle, Leatherback and the Olive Ridley. Shell Beach extends for approximately 120 km.

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The Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean are the two water bodies that form the coastline of Indonesia west and east respectively. Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of more than seventeen thousand islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo (Kalimantan) and New Guinea (Papua). Indonesia is the world’s largest island country and the 14th-largest country by land area.

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The Republic of Ireland is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean. United Kingdom lies to its immediate east.

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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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Malaysia is an island country which is located in the south east Asia. The total agricultural land of the country is about 206,096 sq. km. It counts about 24% of the total area of the country.

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When the Sun is vertically above the equator, the day is of equal length all over Earth. This happens twice a year, and these are the “equinoxes” in March and in September. Between the two tropic zones, which includes the equator, the Sun is directly overhead twice per year. Outside the tropic zones, whether to the south or north, the Sun is never directly overhead.

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