world physical geography section 2 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

A conical hill is a hill with uniform slope and is represented by concentric contours spaced almost regularly. It is a small but distinctive rock hill, 655 metres (2,150 ft) high, on the southern slopes of Mount Terror, above Cape MacKay, on Ross Island.

Answer: (b)

The Isle of Man, otherwise known simply as Mann, is a self-governing British Crown Dependency, located in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland within the British Isle.

The closest land in southern Scotland. It is 52 kilometres long and, at its widest point, 22 kilometres wide.

The United Kingdom is responsible for the island’s defence and ultimately for good governance, and for representing the island in international forums, while the island’s own parliament and government have competence over all domestic matters.

Answer: (c)

The landlocked seas are the Aral Sea, Caspian Sea, Dead Sea, Great Salt Lake, Salton Sea and Sea of Galilee. Landlocked seas may are also considered lakes as the definition of a lake is “a large body of fresh water surrounded by land”.

A landlocked sea would be one with no access to the rest of the world’s oceans.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

The term ground zero describes the point on the Earth’s surface closest to a detonation. In the case of an explosion above the ground, ground zero refers to the point on the ground directly below the detonation. The World Trade Center site, previously known as “Ground Zero” after the September 11 attacks, sits on 16 acres in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The previous World Trade Center complex stood on the site until it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks; Studio Daniel Libeskind, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation oversee the reconstruction of the site.