World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Godavaya is an ancient port trade site on southern coast of Sri Lanka.

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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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Denmark is inside the European Union but Outside the Eurozone. Eight countries (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden) are EU members but do not use the euro.

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The hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was in El Azizia, Libya on September 13, 1922. The temperature reached a staggering 57.8 degrees Celsius (136 degrees Fahrenheit). This record temperature was later contested by a new world record temperature of 56.7°C (134°F) which was recorded in Furnace Creek Ranch, Death Valley, USA. However, the Death Valley record has faced controversies and hence remains debatable.

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Baobab is also known as the ‘Tree of Life’. Baobab is capable of providing shelter, clothing, food, and water for human inhabitants and animals of the African Savannah regions.

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The equator is a line which is not real drawn around a sphere or planet, such as the Earth. It is one of the lines known as a line of latitude, or circle of latitude. The name “equator” is Latin for “even-maker”; at equator the day and night are exactly the same length around the year. The equator passes through 13 countries: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia and Kiribati.

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• Aleutian Islands are chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) from the main portion of the Pacific Ocean (south). They extend in an arc southwest, then northwest, for about 1,100 miles (1,800 km) from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S.
• Kermadec Islands are volcanic island group in the South Pacific Ocean, 600 mi (1,000 km) northeast of Auckland, New Zealand; they are a dependency of New Zealand.
• Sunda Islands are mainly in Indonesia, between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, comprising the western part of the Malay Archipelago.
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are a collection of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Jupiter, the largest planet of the solar system is also known as the winter planet as its average temperature is very low (-148 degree C).

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The average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384400 km.

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According to Wegener, the supercontinent Pangaea broke into two land mass – Laurasia which is to the north of the Sea of Tethys and Gondwanaland which is to the south of Sea of Tethys.