World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Commercial Grain Farming – Under this system, large production is obtained by bringing under plough large areas with the help of machinery.
– Yield per hectare is generally low but the yield per worker is very high due to a high degree of farm mechanisation.
– Agriculture in North American Plains is of this type.
– it is typical type of the farming in areas of a low population density.

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Sericulture refers to the rearing of silk worms and obtaining silk from them. Sericulture originated in China and the Chinese kept the processes of obtaining silk a secret for about three thousand years. Presently, sericulture is almost confined to eastern Asia and southern Europe.

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Liquid or gaseous minerals are obtained by the process of drilling. This process implies making a relatively narrow but deep bore-well to obtain the mineral. The mineral can then be obtained through pumping.

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Fiji is an island country located in the Melanesia subregion of the Oceania geographic region in the South Pacific Ocean, northwest of New Zealand.

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The Toronean Gulf or Toroneos Gulf, also known as the Kassandra Gulf, is a gulf of the Thracian Sea, part of the northern Aegean Sea, in Chalkidiki, Greece. It lies between the Kassandra peninsula in the west and Sithonia in the east.

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Lake Guija is a lake in Central America. The lake is situated on the border between Guatemala and El Salvador. The lake is of volcanic origin and was formed by a large basaltic lava flow from the San Diego volcano which blocked the Guija depression’s original drainage. Lake Guija is fed by the Ostua, Angue and Cusmapa rivers and is drained on its southeastern side by the Rio Desague, a tributary of the Rio Lempa. The lake is surrounded by the volcanic cones of the Mita, San Diego and Cerro Quemado.

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Suriname does share a land border with Guyana. Guyana is a country on the northern mainland of South America. It is considered part of the Caribbean region because of its strong cultural, historical, and political ties with other Caribbean countries and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Guyana is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the south and southwest, Venezuela to the west, and Suriname to the east.

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Guyana, Brazil and Venezuela are the three countries that share the location of “Pacaraima Mountains”. The Pacaraima Mountains are a mountain range primarily in southwestern Guyana, and into northern Brazil and eastern Venezuela. Its highest peak is Mount Roraima at 2,810 metres above sea level, a tepui surrounded by cliffs. It is geologically part of the Guayana Shield and biogeographically part of the Guayana Highlands.

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Iceland houses the “Vaglaskogur Forest”. It is a 300-hectare forest in Iceland. It is the second-largest forest area in the country. This area contains many birch trees and is a visitor attraction.

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Papua New Guinea and Indonesia are the two countries that administer the “New Guinea Island”. New Guinea is the world’s second-largest island and, the largest island in the Southern Hemisphere. Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, it is separated by the 150-kilometre wide Torres Strait from the Australian continent. The eastern half of the island is the major landmass of the independent state of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea or West Papua, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Papua and West Papua.