World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon, also known as the overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France, situated in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Therefore, Canada is the only country that shares a maritime boundary with Saint Pierre and Miquelon. It is the only part of New France that remains under French control. Saint Pierre and Miquelon Islands are situated in the Gulf of St.Lawrence near the entrance of Fortune Bay, in the northern Atlantic Ocean. The Canada-France Maritime Boundary Case was a dispute between Canada and France that was decided in 1992 by an arbitral tribunal created by the parties to resolve the dispute. The decision established the extent of the Exclusive Economic Zone of the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Saint Barthelemy is an overseas collectivity of France in the West Indies region of the Caribbean Sea. It is also known as “St.Barths” or “St.Barts”. This island is located south-east of Sint Maarten and north-east of the Dutch islands of Saba, Sint Eustatius, and the independent country of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Barthelemy was for many years a French commune forming part of Guadeloupe, which is an overseas region and department of France. In 2003, the island voted in favor of secession from Guadeloupe in order to form a separate overseas collectivity of France.

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The Nzerekore Region is a region in the southern part of Guinea. Its capital and largest city are Nzerekore. It is one of the eight regions of Guinea. It is bordered by the countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ivory Coast, and the Guinean regions of Kankan and Faranah.

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The Guiana Highlands is the parent geographical formation of “Tepui” table-top mountains. A tepui is a table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela and western Guyana. Tepuis tend to be found as isolated entities rather than in connected ranges, which makes them the host of a unique array of endemic plant and animal species.

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The Massif de la Hotte is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the far western end of the Tiburon Peninsula. The region is relatively remote and is one of the most biologically diverse and significant areas of all of Hispaniola. It also supports some of the last stands of Haiti’s dense cloud forest on its peaks.

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The highest peak of the Lao people Democratic Republic is Phou Bia. It is about 2819 meter high above mean sea level.

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Montenegro is a Balkan country located in the Adriatic sea in the southeast Europe. It shares its borders with Albania, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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In physical geography, tundra is a biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three types of tundra: Arctic tundra, alpine tundra, and Antarctic tundra where the subsoil is permafrost, or permanently frozen soil. Rainfall and snowfall are generally slight due to the low vapor pressure of water in the chilly atmosphere, but as a rule potential evapotranspiration is extremely low, allowing soggy terrain of swamps and bogs even in places that get precipitation typical of deserts of lower and middle latitudes.

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The youthful stage of the river is when water flow is the quickest. Because of steep slope and steep channel gradient in this stage, rivers actively deepen their valleys through vertical erosion. The valley becomes deep and narrow characterized by steep valley side slopes of convex plan. Waterfalls, V-shaped valleys and interlocking spurs are features of this stage.

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Insolation is a measure of solar radiation energy received on a given surface area in a given time. It mainly depends on two factors: (a) the angle at which the Sun’s rays strike the Earth, and (b) the length of time of exposure to the rays. Both of these factors are controlled by the latitude of the location and time of the year.