World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Second statement is incorrect because Venus is the second brightest object in our night sky after Moon.

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Myanmar is bound by China to the north and northeast, Laos to the east, Thailand to the east and southeast, India to the northwest, Bangladesh to the west and the Andaman Sea to the south.

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All the rocks are derived from igneous rocks which are formed by the solidification of hot molten material called magma or lava. Therefore igneous rocks are also called as primary rocks or parent rocks.

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Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria. It makes the border tripoint of Kenya , Tanzania & Uganda.

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An Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance between Earth and the Sun. 1 Astronomical unit (AU) is a unit of length equal to 150 Million Kms.

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The area of the United States known as the South Plains is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world

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Storm tracks are the relatively narrow zones in seas and oceans where storms travel driven by the prevailing winds.The Atlantic and Pacific have storm tracks along which most Atlantic or Pacific extratropical cyclones or tropical cyclones travel.

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The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 kilometers from the Amazon’s headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru.

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• The Florida Current is a thermal ocean current that flows from the Straits of Florida around the Florida Peninsula and along the southeastern coast of the United States before joining the Gulf Stream Current near Cape Hatteras. Its contributing currents are the Loop Current and the Antilles Current.
• The Benguela Current is a cold, wide current that flows northwards along the west coast of southern Africa. It is an Eastern Boundary Current and forms the eastern flank of the South Atlantic Gyre The ocean current “begins” roughly where the eastward-flowing South Atlantic Current swings northward at the Agulhas.
• The Peruvian Current, also called the Humboldt Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America. It is an eastern boundary current flowing in the direction of the equator, and extends 500–1,000 km (310–620 mi) offshore.
• The Kuroshio a warm northeasterly ocean current off the coast of JAPAN. This current is also called the gulf stream of the Pacific or Japan Current. Kuroshio means “the black stream” in Japanese, named after the deep ultramarine color of the high salinity water, which is found flowing north of the current’s axis.

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The Missouri River is the longest river in North America. It stretches for about 2,341 miles. Also, it combines with the Mississippi River to form the fourth longest river system in the world.