World Physical Geography Section 4 Practice Questions Answers Test With Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (b)

A mountain range, or ‘mountain belt’, is a geographic area containing numerous geologically related mountains. Above sea level the Andes is usually considered the world’s longest mountain system; it is 7,000 kilometres in length. The Himalaya Range contains the highest mountains on the Earth’s surface, the highest of which is Mount Everest. The world’s longest mountain system is known as Ocean Ridge, which is a chain of mountains that runs on the seafloor of five oceans around the world; it has a length of 65,000 kilometres, and the total length of the system is 80,000 kilometres. The Andes is the world’s longest mountain system on the surface of a continent; it is 7,000 kilometres in length. To clarify, the Andes is the world’s largest chain of mountains above sea level.

Answer: (b)

• Taiga: Verkhoyansk (Siberia);
• Monsoon: India;
• Alpine: La Paz (Bolivia);
• Desert: Jacobabad (Sindh, Pakistan).

Answer: (b)

Mount Sinabung, a stratovolcano, located in North Sumatra, Indonesia, erupted in May 2016. Seven persons were killed in the wake of its eruption.

The 2,460- metre (8,070 foot) tall volcano is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt of seismic activity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean.

Answer: (b)

Answer: (b)

The Comoros Islands are an archipelago of four volcanic islands and several islets located in the western Indian Ocean about ten to twelve degrees south of the Equator.

They lie approximately halfway between the island of Madagascar and northern Mozambique at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel.