World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Copper ore and copper metal form an important item of international trade.
The most important importers are developed countries of Europe producing little copper. Germany, UK, France, Japan and India figure as chief importers of copper.
The major exporters are Zaire, Zambia, Chile and Peru. US is the leading exporter of manufactured copper.

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The Atlantic Ocean forms the coastline of the “Bissagos Islands”. The Bissagos Islands are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the African nation of Guinea-Bissau. The archipelago was formed from the ancient delta of the Rio Geba and the Rio Grande. There is a high diversity of ecosystems: mangroves with intertidal zones, palm forests, dry and semi-dry forests, secondary and degraded forests, coastal savanna, sandbanks and aquatic zones. The archipelago was declared in 1996 a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve—Bolama Bissagos Biosphere Reserve, known for animals including marine turtles, hippopotamus and the southern islands are today a nature reserve.

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Iceland’s second-longest river is “Jokulsa a Fjollum River”. Its source is the Vatnajokull glacier. It flows into the Greenland Sea. Jokulsa a Fjollum streams over the waterfalls Selfoss, Dettifoss, Hafragilsfoss, and Rettarfoss, the second of which is the most powerful waterfall in Europe. The source of the river is in the Vatnajokull National Park, one of three national parks in Iceland.

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Iceland houses the volcanic caldera “Grimsvotn”. Grimsvotn is a volcano with a fissure system located in Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland. The volcano itself is completely subglacial and located under the northwestern side of the Vatnajokull ice cap. Beneath the caldera is the magma chamber of the Grimsvotn volcano. Grimsvotn is a basaltic volcano that has the highest eruption frequency of all the volcanoes in Iceland and has a southwest-northeast-trending fissure system.

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The Israel, a country in the western Asian continent, is located on the northern shore of Red Sea.

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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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On 21st March and September 23rd, direct rays of the sun fall on the equator. At this position, neither of the poles is tilted towards the sun; so, the whole earth experiences equal days and equal nights. This is called an equinox.

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Degrees of latitude are parallel so the distance between each degree remains almost constant but since degrees of longitude are farthest apart at the equator and converge at the poles, their distance varies greatly. Each degree of latitude is approximately 69 miles (111 kilometers) apart.

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The largest water reservoir is the ocean, containing 97.3% of all water on Earth. Only 2.8 % of all the water on Planet Earth is fresh water. Three-quarters of all fresh water on Earth is frozen in glacier ice. So glacier ice is the second largest reservoir of water on Earth and the largest reservoir of fresh water on Earth.

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In the Netherlands, 50 percent of the country is below sea level with the lowest point being 22 feet (6.7 meters) below sea level. Through a complex system of dikes, pumps and sand dunes along the coast, the Netherlands stays above water. In fact, it has one of the most sophisticated anti-flood systems in place anywhere in the world.