world physical geography section 7 Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Answer: (c)

Answer: (a)

Hanging valleys are created due to glacial erosion. It is formed due to different rates of erosion between the main valley and the valleys that enter it along its sides.

Answer: (b)

1. Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People’s Republic of China and the largest city proper by population in the world. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, Shanghai sits at the mouth of the Yangtze River in the middle portion of the Chinese coast.
2. Bangkok is the capital city of Thailand and the most populous city in the country. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand.
3. Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. Montreal is located in the southwest of the province of Quebec.
4. The city proper covers most of the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers.

Answer: (b)

Australia has many of the most unique animals in the world, not to mention the birds and reptiles. Marsupials are the most common and prolific group in Australia such as the kangaroo and koala, wallaby, wombat, bandicoot, kultarr, marsupial mole, dunnart, cuscus, possum, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian devil, and many others. There are also unique egg-laying mammals like the platypus and the echidna.

Answer: (a)

• The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current that extends the Gulf Stream north-eastward.
• The NAC originates from where the Gulf Stream turns north at the Southeast Newfoundland Rise, a submarine ridge that stretches southeast from the Grand Banks. The NAC flows northward east of the Grand Banks, from 40°N to 51°N, before turning sharply east to cross the Atlantic.
• It transports more warm tropical water to northern latitudes than any other boundary current; more than 40 Sv in the south and 20 Sv as it cross the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.