world physical geography section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Yosemite Falls is the highest measured waterfall in North America. Located in Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada of California in the United States, it is a major attraction in the park, especially in late spring when the water flow is at its peak.

Answer: (b)

A hurricane is a type of storm called a tropical cyclone, which forms over tropical or subtropical waters. A tropical cyclone is a rotating low-pressure weather system that has organized thunderstorms but no fronts (a boundary separating two air masses of different densities).

Tropical cyclones with maximum sustained surface winds of less than 39 miles per hour (mph) are called tropical depressions. Those with maximum sustained winds of 39 mph or higher are called tropical storms.

They develop over the ocean between 8º - 15º N.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Melanesia is a sub-region of Oceania extending from the western end of the Pacific Ocean to the Arafura Sea, and eastward to Fiji. The region comprises most of the islands immediately north and northeast of Australia.

Answer: (b)

Venice in Italy is known as “Queen of the Adriatic,” because of its location on the Adriatic coast. Because of its location, it dominated the Eastern Mediterranean beginning in the twelfth century.

Her extensive trade network linked Europe to Byzantium, the Moslem world, and even the distant Asian civilizations explored by Marco Polo. It is also known as “City of Water,” “City of Masks,” “City of Bridges,” “The Floating City,” and “City of Canals.”

Answer: (d)

Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. With a population of 56,749 (2012 estimate), it is the least densely populated dependency or country in the world.

Greenland became a Danish colony in 1814 after being under the rule of Denmark-Norway for centuries. With the Constitution of Denmark of 1953, Greenland became part of the Danish Realm.

In 1979, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, and in 2008, Greenland voted to transfer more power from the Danish royal government to the local Greenlandic government.