world physical geography section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

Cyclone Sidr was a tropical cyclone that resulted in one of the worst natural disasters in Bangladesh on 15 November 2007. 3,447 deaths were blamed on this Category-5 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Scale.

Answer: (a)

The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements.

The Ring of Fire has 452 volcanoes and is home to over 75% of the world’s active and dormant volcanoes. It is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt or the circumPacific seismic belt. About 90% of the world’s earthquakes and 81% of the world’s largest earthquakes occur along the Ring of Fire.

The next most seismic region (5–6% of earthquakes and 17% of the world’s largest earthquakes) is the belt which extends from Java to Sumatra through the Himalayas, the Mediterranean, and out into the Atlantic. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is the third most prominent earthquake belt.

Answer: (b)

Sirocco originates in the Sahara and blows across the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe. It arises from a warm, dry, tropical airmass in the Arabian or Sahara deserts that is pulled northward by lowpressure cells moving eastward across the Mediterranean Sea.

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: (b)

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

The river flows on the north-western side.

Answer: (a)

In Macedonia, ethinic Albanian population is 23%, which is a good number in Macedonia. But in Kosovo 92% Albanians present where Serbians are the minority.