World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Diamond is the purest form of carbon and it is more precious than even gold. It is also the hardest substance.
The Republic of Congo is the largest producer of industrial diamonds. Kalgoorlie and Koolgardie have been famous for diamond mining.

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Anguilla Channel is a strait in the Caribbean Sea. It separates Anguilla Island, an overseas territory of the United Kingdom, in the north from the collectivity of Saint Martin, an overseas collectivity of France on Saint Martin Island, in the south.

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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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The Matra is a mountain range in northern Hungary. The country’s highest peak, Kekesteto belongs to this mountain range. The Matra is part of the North Hungarian Mountains and belongs by origin to the largest young volcanic zone of Europe. It is situated between the valleys of River Tarna and River Zagyva.

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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 highest mountain peak of Liechtenstein is Mount Grayspitz. It is located in the Ratikon Range of Alps located on the border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Its height is 2599 meters above the mean sea level.

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Jupiter’s radius is about 1/10 the radius of the Sun, and its mass is 0.001 times the mass of the Sun. Jupiter’s mass is 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined—this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun lies above the Sun’s surface at 1.068 solar radii from the Sun’s center.

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The average temperature on Earth is about 61o F (16o C). But temperatures vary greatly around the world depending on the time of year, ocean and wind currents and weather conditions. Summers tend to be warmer and winters colder. Also, temperatures tend to be higher near the equator and lower near the poles.

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The point within the earth where the actual movement takes place is called the focus. The point on the surface directly above the focus is called the epicenter. At least three seismic stations are needed to find the earthquake epicenter. A single recording station can only calculate distance, but not direction; to cover all possibilities, a complete circle is drawn around that station. If only two earthquake recording stations are used, the circles will overlap at two points. Data from a third recording station will eliminate one of these points.

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Kaieteur Falls is located on the Potaro River in the Kaieteur National Park in Guyana. It sits in a section of the Amazon rainforest included in the Potaro- Siparuni region of Guyana. It is the world’s largest single drop waterfall by the volume of water flowing over it.