World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The agricultural products account for about 9 per cent of the total value of exports. Within agricultural products, food accounts for the largest share (7.2%) of the total export trade. The US, Japan, Germany, UK, France and Italy are the leading importers of food, each accounting for more than 4 per cent of the total value of food imports.

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Poland is one of the countries with the highest volume of freight traffic carried by railways in Europe. The volume of railway freight in this country is higher than countries like Germany and France though the total freight moved in these latter countries far exceeds the figures for Poland.

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Mayotte Islands are the overseas department and region of France located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of south-east Africa, between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique. Mayotte Islands forms part of the Comoros Archipelago. It is the poorest region in France, but more prosperous than other countries of the Mozambique channel.

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The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades.

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Iceland houses the glacial lake “Jokulsarlon”. Jokulsarlon, also known as “glacial river lagoon”, is a large glacial lake in the southern part of Vatnajokull National Park, Iceland. Situated at the head of the Breidamerkurjokull glacier, it developed into a lake after the glacier started receding from the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. The lake has grown since then at varying rates because of the melting of the glaciers.

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Luxembourg is a landlocked country located in Eastern Europe. It is officially known as Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The lowest situated place of the country is Moselle river which is about 133 meter above mean sea level.

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Planetary scientists prefer to call the thin gaseous envelope around the Moon as the ‘Lunar exosphere’. Since it is so tenuous that the gas atoms very rarely collide with each other. According to ISRO, Argon-40 or 40Ar originates from the radioactive disintegration of Potassium-40 (40K).

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Lakshadweep is a group of coral islands in the Laccadive Sea. It is known as coral island because it has been made up of coral, which are skeletons of tiny marine animals called polyps.When the living polyps die, other polyps grow on top of their hard skeletons. They grow higher and higher and thus form coral islands.

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The Radio waves are reflected back to Earth in the Ionosphere which is an electrically charged layer of the upper atmosphere. This process is used to communicate beyond the horizon, at intercontinental distances, mostly in the shortwave frequency bands.

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Estuaries and their surrounding wetlands are bodies of water usually found where rivers meet the sea. Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water—a mixture of fresh water draining from the land and salty seawater.