World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The Registan Desert or Sistan Desert is located between Helmand and Kandahar provinces in southeastern Afghanistan. It is a sandy desert consisting of small, red sand hills, sand-covered plains, and open rocky and clay-covered areas.

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Cold ocean currents contribute to the formation of coastal deserts. Cold ocean currents contribute to the formation of coastal deserts. Air blowing toward shore, chilled by contact with cold water, produces a layer of fog. This heavy fog drifts onto land. Although humidity is high, the atmospheric changes that normally cause rainfall are not present. A coastal desert may be almost totally rainless, yet damp with fog.
The Atacama Desert, on the Pacific shores of Chile, is a coastal desert. Some areas of the Atacama are often covered by fog. But the region can go decades without rainfall. In fact, the Atacama Desert is the driest place on Earth. Some weather stations in the Atacama have never recorded a drop of rain. (National Geographic)

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A Total Solar Eclipse can occur only at new moon when the Moon passes between Earth and Sun.

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The Intertropical Convergence Zone, known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.

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The first stamps did not need to show the issuing country, so no country name was included on them. The UK remains the only country to omit its name on postage stamps, using the reigning monarch’s head as country identification.

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Due to availability of fertile alluvial soil intensive agricultural practices was possible in the Nile river and islands of Java. So, in this region high density of population is found.

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The Deep water Horizon oil spill, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the world took place in the Gulf of Mexico. It is also known as the BP oil spill, that began on April 20, 2010.

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The Isthmus of Perekop connects the Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine. It separates the water bodies of the Black Sea and the Sivash. Its width is nearly 5 to 7 km.

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Vatnajokull Glacier is located in the country of Iceland. It is the largest and the most voluminous ice cap in Iceland. Also, it is the second largest ice cap in Europe, in terms of area. It is also known as Vatna Glacier.

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The Kangshung Glacier is situated in China. It lies in the Tibet region Himalayas. It is one of the three main glaciers of Mount Everest. The others are the Khumbu Glacier and Rongbuk Glacier.