world physical geography section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

An archipelago sometimes called an island group or island chain is a chain or cluster of islands.

Archipelagos may be found isolated in bodies of water or neighbouring a large landmass. Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelago with over 13,000 islands & totals around 18,000 islands.

The Malay Archipelago (or Indonesian Archipelago) is often referred to as the largest archipelago in the world, but this is meant by area rather than a number of islands.

This title aptly represents its 25,000 - 30,000 or so islands which span 5,400 kilometres eastward from Sabang in northern Sumatra to Merauke in Irian Jaya (now known as Papua).

Answer: (c)

The Kiel canal connects Baltic sea and North sea. The Kiel Canal, known as the Kaiser-WilhelmKanal until 1948, is a 98-kilometre long canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The canal links the North Sea at Brunsbüttel to the Baltic Sea at Kiel-Holtenau

Answer: (d)

Japan is an archipelago, or a group of islands, about 100 miles east of theAsian main land in the Far East. Being the easternmost country in the world. When earth rotates, Japan first receives the first rays of the sun. Then the others get the rays if the sun. That’s why Japan is called the land of the rising sun.

Answer: (c)

1. Kalahari Desert: a large semi-arid sandy savannah in southern Africa;
2. Atacama Desert: the driest hot desert in the world, located in South America;
3. Thar Desert: a large, arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, and
4. Great Victoria: a sparsely populated desert area in Western Australia and South Australia.

Answer: (c)

The Strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar and Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa.

Answer: (a)

Bering Strait is nearest to the International Date line, because the international Date line runs equidistant between the American continents, on its East and Asia, Australia, and Europe on its west.