world physical geography section 3 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

North Korea – Pyong-Yong (It is the capital of North Korea.)

Answer: (b)

The Panama Canal is a 48-mile ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

The American Society of Civil Engineers has named the Panama Canal one of the seven wonders of the modern world.

Answer: (a)

Selvas are equatorial rain forests. The name was used earlier in Brazil for the forests. Today this name is used as a term for rain forests throughout the world.

Answer: (d)

• The Seine is a 776 km-long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.
• The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
• The Rhine is a river that flows from Grisons in the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands and is the twelfth longest river in Europe. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands are countries traversed by it.
• The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent’s second-longest after the Volga. Classified as an international waterway, it originates in the town of Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest of Germany at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg. The Danube then flows southeast for 2,872 km, passing through four Central European capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.

Answer: (b)

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona.

For thousands of years, the area has been continuously inhabited by Native Americans.

Answer: (b)

1. The United States of America (22.6%),
2. Russia (14.4%) and China (12.6%) together account for about 50 per cent of the global coal deposits.
3. Australia (8.9%) and India (7.0%) come next.

In terms of coal production, China, the USA and India are the world’s topmost countries.