world physical geography section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

1. Jabalpur: Narmada;
2. Paris: Seine;
3. London: Thames; and
4. Lahore: Ravi

The river flows on the north-western side.

Answer: (d)

The Sahara covers most of North Africa and extends over Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia. It covers about 1D 4 of the African continent.

Answer: (a)

The largest expanse of tropical rain forest is found in the Amajon basin of Brazil, extending from the Atlantic Coast of the foot hills of the Ande and from the Guiana Highlands in the north to the tropic of Capricorn in the South.

Answer: (b)

North America was not the part of Gondwana Land.

Answer: (c)

Loess soil is a wind-blown sedimentary deposit. Good examples are found in China and Europe and United States etc. It is a kind of silt that forms a fertile topsoil in some parts of the world. Loess consists of tiny mineral particles brought by wind to the places where they now lie. These mineral particles are finer than sand, but coarser than clay.

Answer: (a)

The North Atlantic current or Drift or sea movement is a powerful warm ocean current that continues the gulf stream northeast, which stretches from Florida to north- western Europe. It moderates the chilled climate of western Europe.