world physical geography section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

Dekke Toba is an Indonesian fish found in Lake Toba which is a volcanic lake in the middle of the northern part of the Sumatra island.

It is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest volcanic lake in the world.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

Los Llanos is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America.

It also refers to the flatland area encompassing the Chilean Central Valley between Valdivia and Osorno.

Answer: (a)

1. The Gobi Desert is a vast, arid region in northern China and southern Mongolia. It’s known for its dunes, mountains and rare animals such as snow leopards and Bactrian camels.
2. The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending 900,000 square kilometres, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia, and regions of South Africa.
3. The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America, covering a 1,000-kilometre strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes Mountains. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world.
4. The Nubian Desert is in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert, spanning approximately 400,000 km² of northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea.

Answer: (b)

Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, is located on a vast plain bisected by the River Tigris. The Tigris splits Baghdad in half, with the eastern half being called ‘Risafa’ and the Western half known as ‘Karkh’.

The land on which the city is built is almost entirely flat and low-lying, being of alluvial origin due to the periodic large floods which have occurred on the river.

Answer: (a)

Temperate grasslands, include the Prairie and Pacific Grasslands of North America, the Pampas of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, calcareous downland, and the steppes of Europe. The Pampas of South America are a grassland biome.