world physical geography section 3 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (a)

1. Isobars are lines on a weather map joining together places of equal atmospheric pressure.
2. A line drawn on a map connecting points, having equal rainfall at a certain time or for a stated period is called Isohyet.
3. Isotherms, lines connecting points of equal air temperature are used to map the geographic pattern of temperature across the earth’s surface. The spacing of isotherms depicts the temperature gradient across a portion of the Earth’s surface.
4. Isohel is a line on a map connecting places with an equal period of sunshine.

Answer: (a)

According to the latest research, the driest location on Earth lies in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The location is called Maria Elena South (MES).

The site has a mean atmospheric relative humidity (RH) of 17.3 per cent and a soil RH of a constant 14 per cent at a depth of one meter

Answer: (b)

With the height of 4,411 meters above sea level, the Daocheng Yading Airport has become the highest civil airport in the world. It is located in Daocheng County of the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

Answer: (a)

Jordan does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer: (b)

Greenland is the world’s largest island covering 2,130,800 square kilometres. It is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland.

An island, Greenland has no land boundaries and 44,087 km of coastline; it possesses the world’s second-largest ice sheet.