Miscellaneous World Geography — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

In Germany the Mittle Land Canal runs from the Rhine to the Oder. It extends from the Dortmund-Ems Canal east of Rheine, running eastward along the northern border of the Central German Uplands to the Elbe River north of Magdeburg (a distance of about 321 km, or 199 miles), linking there with the Elbe-Havel Canal eastward to Berlin.

Finland is called "the land of thousand lakes. The thousands of lakes in Finland are the reason why the country's nickname is "the land of a thousand lakes". A comparison of the number of lakes with its population reveals that there is one lake for every 26 Finns. Water makes up 10% of the land area in Finland.

Khartoum lies on the Nile Rivers. The Nile is composed of two tributaries: the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile, which is the longer of the two, begins at Lake Victoria in Tanzania and flows north until it reaches Khartoum, Sudan, where it converges with the Blue Nile. The Blue Nile begins near Lake Tana in Ethiopia.

The strait that separates Tasmania from the mainland of Australia is Bass Strait. Bass Strait is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland, specifically the state of Victoria. The strait was named after George Bass who travelled it in 1798.

Grand Bank, Sable Bank, Middle Bank and Jeffery Bank are the major fishing grounds of North West Atlantic.

In spite of the very high temperature at the Earth's centre, the inner core is not in a molten state because the Great pressure at the centre raises the melting point of the rocks. Our inner core is a solid matter. And it remains solid because of its called iron-nickel which helps most the inner core become solid and other solid and hard particles of it.

The shortest route from Moscow to San Francisco is Moscow to Europe; crossing Atlantic and East Coast of North America.

Zueder Zee in Netherlands is known for Polders. IJsselmeer Polders, Dutch IJsselmeerpolders, group of four polders, central Netherlands, that were reclaimed from the IJsselmeer, a lake that used to be part of the former Zuiderzee. The polders are located in the lake’s southern part and along its eastern shore (except for Wieringermeer in the northwest).

Life expectancy of a region is The maximum age at which any individual of the region can live.

Pacific Ocean touches the shores of Asia on one side and that of America on the other. Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the Antarctic region in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) consists of a group of islands off the western coast of Europe. The largest, Great Britain, comprises three countries: England, Scotland and Wales. Ireland, to the west, consists of the UK's province of Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

It was most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan with magnitude of 9.1 (approx). Its epicentre was under sea due to which Tsunami originated and devastated the coastal areas. Even Fukushima nuclear reactors got damaged leading to radioactive radiations.

The earlier name of Surinam was Dutch Guyana. Formerly known as Dutch Guiana, Suriname was a plantation colony of the Netherlands that gained its independence on 25 November, 1975. When the territory was taken over by the Dutch, it became part of a group of colonies known as Dutch Guiana.

Canada was largest producer of Uranium (till 2006). Presently, Kazakhstan with a production of 23,800 tonnes (approx) is largest producer of Uranium.

The only cereal crop which originated in america is Corn. Corn, (Zea mays), also called Indian corn or maize, cereal plant of the grass family (Poaceae) and its edible grain. The domesticated crop originated in the Americas and is one of the most widely distributed of the world’s food crops.

Japan is included in the North-West Pacific fishing grounds. The mountainous nature of Japan and parts of mainland eastern Asia has driven many to seek a livelihood from the sea. Japan is now not only a major producer and exporter of fish and marine products, but also a centre for marine and fishing research.

The world's largest reserves of petroleum are located in Russia. Russia is the world's largest producer of crude oil. It was the world's largest producer of crude oil including lease condensate and the third-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids (after Saudi Arabia and the United States) in 2014, with average liquids production of 10.9 million barrels per day.

Liverpool Hull, Bristol and Southampton are ports in England.

A huge muss of ice fed by snow on a high mountain slowly sliding downhill before It starts melting is called Glacier. A glacier is a huge mass of ice that moves slowly over land. The term “glacier” comes from the French word glace (glah-SAY), which means ice. Glaciers are often called “rivers of ice.” Glaciers fall into two groups: alpine glaciers and ice sheets.

If one watches a distant ship coming towards the shore through a telescope one first sees Its mast. The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.

Inversion of temperature refers to Increase in temperature with height. In meteorology, an inversion, also known as a temperature inversion, is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude. It almost always refers to an inversion of the thermal lapse rate. Normally, air temperature decreases with an increase in altitude.

"Cloud burst" is an abnormal heavy downpour of rain. Cloudbursts occur because the warm air current from the ground or below the clouds rushes up and carries the falling raindrops up with it. The rain fails to fall down in a steady shower. This results in excessive condensation in the clouds as new drops form and old drops are pushed back into it by the updraft.

Belgium is known as the "Cockpit of Europe" because it has been the site of more European battles than any other country; for example, Oudenarde, Ramillies, Fontenoy, Fleurus, Jemmapes, Ligny, Quatre Bras, Waterloo.

Loess plains is not formed by the action of the river. Loess is a sedimentary deposit of mineral particles which are finer than sand but coarser than dust or clay, deposited by the wind. Loess is a type of silt which forms fertile topsoil in some parts of the world. Loess deposits are usually a few meters thick. The soil has few clay particles to hold it together.

Humidity in the air is measured in a Hygrometer. Humidity is the measure of the amount of moisture in the air. A psychrometer is an example of a hygrometer.

There are two types of crusts - the continental and the oceanic. The continental crust is thicker below the mountains than below the plains. Both continental and oceanic crusts are less dense than the mantle, so both float in the mantle. Continental crust floats higher in the mantle than oceanic crust because continental crust is both less dense and thicker than oceanic crust.

Pilgrim Fathers are the earliest migrants to North America. Pilgrim Fathers, in American colonial history, settlers of Plymouth, Mass., the first permanent colony in New England (1620). Of the 102 colonists, 35 were members of the English Separatist Church (a radical faction of Puritanism) who had earlier fled to Leiden, the Netherlands, to escape persecution at home.

The approximate distance between the Earth and the Sun is 150000000 km. Earth orbits the sun 100,000 times closer than the Oort Cloud, at an average of 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km).

Latvia does not share its borders with Poland. Latvia is bordered by the 4 neighboring nations of Russia (eastwards), Estonia (northwards), Belarus (southeastwards), and Lithuania (southwards).

"Three Gorges Dam" is a hydroelectric dam built across Yangtze River in Hubei Province of China.

As the counter measure to the Gwadar port being developed by rival nations China & Pakistan in Pakistan, India is developing the strategically important Chabahar port in Iran. This port will provide India an access to Central Asian countries & Afghanistan.

'The Scented Isle' in the Mediterranean Sea is Corsica. Corsica is the fourth largest island (after Sicily, Sardinia, and Cyprus) in the Mediterranean. It lies 105 miles (170 km) from southern France and 56 miles (90 km) from northwestern Italy, and it is separated from Sardinia by the 7-mile (11-km) Strait of Bonifacio. Ajaccio is the capital.

The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (usually 21 or 22 December).

The countries with the lowest and worst economic conditions in the world referred to as the 'Pole of hunger' are European Countries.

The Earth's population has Trebled since the turn of the century. It wasn't until the early 19th century that the world population reached its first big milestone: 1 billion people. Then, as the industrial revolution took hold and living standards improved, the rate of population growth increased considerably. The 20th century, however, is where population growth really took off, and over the past 100 years, the planet's population has more than tripled in size.

The largest country in the world (area-wise) is Russia. Covering an expanse of over 6.6 million square miles, Russia is the world’s largest country by landmass, beating out runner-up Canada by around 2.8 million square miles. It includes nine different time zones and shares land borders with 14 neighboring countries.

The first oil well in the world was drilled at Pensylvania. On August 28, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake made the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

If A and B are two stations antipode to each other then their seasons day and night are opposite. At antipodes, both the seasons and the pattern of day and night are thus opposite, i.e. winter at one and the summer at the other, and noon at one is simultaneous with midnight at the other point.

The age of a tree can be estimated by The number of concentric rings on a cross-section of its trunk. A tree's age can be determined by counting the annual growth rings in its trunk. Each ring represents one year, and the ring's thickness reveals the relative amount of rainfall that year.

Sunda Trench lies in Indian Ocean. The Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate. It is 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) long.