World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Gums and resins form one group of plant products obtained from forests. Chicle is used for making chewing gums and it is a product obtained from the sap of the zapote tree growing in the tropical rainforests from southern Mexico and British Honduras to Brazil.

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Tanning materials are perhaps the most important products of gathering activity in the temperate and sub-tropical latitudes. Quebracho tree growing in the Gran Chaco region of South America is a principle source of tannin.

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Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway which is 193.3 km long constructed between 1859 and 1869 located in Egypt, connecting both the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It defines the border between Africa and Asia. Port Said and Port Tewfik form the starting point and the ending point of the canal respectively. The canal offers water vessels a more direct route between the North Atlantic and northern Indian oceans via the Mediterranean and Red seas, thus avoiding the South Atlantic and southern Indian oceans and reducing the journey distance from the Arabian Sea to London, for example, by approximately 8,900 kilometres.

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Muni River, also known as Noya River, is a Ramsar Wetland located in Equatorial Guinea. The estuary of this river forms the border with Gabon. This river forms the major basin of Rio Muni continental region of Equatorial Guinea.

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Wallis and Futuna, officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, is an island collectivity of France in the south Pacific Ocean between Tuvalu to the northwest, Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast, Samoa to the east, and Tokelau to the northeast. Mata’Utu is the capital of Wallis and Futuna.

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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 Ireland is River Shannon which is about 360 Km long. Shannon river separates midlands of Ireland from west of the island.

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The highest peak of Japan is Mount Fuji which is about 3776.24 meters in height. It is located on the island of Honshu.

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The highest peak of State of Kuwait is Mahzul mountain which is about 260 meter above the mean sea level and is located in the Mutla Ridges of Kuwait.