world physical geography section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

1. Tropical evergreen forests - Above 200 cm
2. Tropical deciduous forests - 100-200 cm
3. Tropical Dry forest - 50-100 cm
4. Arid forest - Less than 50 cm

Answer: (c)

The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5-kilometre (undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is 75 m (250 ft) deep.

At 37.9 kilometres, the Channel Tunnel possesses the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer overall at 53.85 kilometres.

Answer: (b)

East Australian current is the warm current while west Australian, current. Benguela current and peru current are the cold ocean Currents.

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)

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: (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).