This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Physical > Physical Geography – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Physical Geography Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. There are ..... districts in Tamil Nadu. A) 35. B) 76. C) 37 (32+5). D) 36 (32+4). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 37 (32+5). 2. What are the main physical features in West Africa? A) Plains and rivers. B) Mountains. C) Lakes and valleys. D) Deserts and savannas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plains and rivers. 3. Where would you find an ice sheet? A) Australia. B) The Equator. C) Antarctica. D) Grand Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antarctica. 4. What is british isles A) Glaciers and sheets. B) A group of europe. C) Hills and mountains. D) Energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of europe. 5. The Canadian Shield is in the ..... side of the region A) Southern. B) Northern. C) Eastern. D) Western. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eastern. 6. What mountain range is located in Northern Africa? A) Atlas. B) Himalayan. C) Andes. D) Pyrenees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atlas. 7. A narrow body of water connecting two larger bodies of water A) Strait. B) Mountain. C) Delta. D) Isthmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strait. 8. Southern Mexico is part of a ..... that connects North America and South America. A) Crossroads. B) Peninsula. C) Land bridge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Land bridge. 9. What is a layer of rock or sediment that holds water? A) Aquifer. B) Glacier. C) Well. D) Natural spring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquifer. 10. What is the name of the world's largest collection of coral? (hint:it extends 1, 200 miles) A) Great Victoria Desert. B) Coral Sea. C) Great Barrier Reef. D) Ayers Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Barrier Reef. 11. In which of the following mountain ranges will you find Mt. Everest? A) Hindu Kush. B) Caucasus Mountains. C) Himalayas. D) Eastern Ghats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Himalayas. 12. A change from productive land to desert A) Harmattan. B) Desertification. C) Deforestation. D) Oasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desertification. 13. What food is grown by farmers around the world. Which area of geography does this fall under? A) Human (economic). B) Human (social). C) Physical Geography. D) Human (political). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human (economic). 14. Imaginary line dividing two places A) Border. B) River. C) Boundary. D) Channel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Border. 15. COURTALLAM AND KALYANATHEERTHAM WATER FALLS ARE FOUND IN ..... DISTRICT A) COIMBATORE. B) MADURAI. C) THENI. D) THIRUNELVELI. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) THIRUNELVELI. 16. This type of map shows land forms and other natural features: A) Political map. B) Physical map. C) Resource map. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical map. 17. This is the largest desert in the World. A) Sahara. B) Death Valley. C) Mobi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sahara. 18. What country is the largest in Western Europe A) France. B) Germany. C) U.K. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) France. 19. The Lempa River is a vital source of A) Hydroelectricity. B) Irrigation. C) Commercial fish. D) Marine life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hydroelectricity. 20. What is the correct term for Earth's full trip around the sun? A) Orbit. B) Elliptical. C) Rotation. D) Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Revolution. 21. The Adriatic Sea lies directly to the east of which European country? A) Finland. B) Italy. C) Spain. D) United Kingdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 22. How many oceans are on Earth? A) 7. B) 6. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 23. Located in Africa, what is the longest lake in the world? A) Lake Okeechobee. B) Lake Tanganyika. C) Lake Victoria. D) Lake Mead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake Tanganyika. 24. How many layers make up the inside of the Earth? A) Three. B) Five. C) Four. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Three. 25. UAE can be divided into ..... geographical zones A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 26. The Pyrenees Mountains divide which two countries? A) Portugal and Spain. B) Italy and France. C) Spain and France. D) Great Britain and Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spain and France. 27. Naga, Garo and khasi hills are parts of ..... A) Purvachal. B) Himachal. C) Himadri. D) Shivalik. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Purvachal. 28. This region includes Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon Territory and a group of islands called an archipelago A) Northern Lands. B) British Columbia. C) Canadian Shield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Northern Lands. 29. Which is not a branch of the USA government A) Executive. B) Legislative. C) President. D) Judicial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) President. 30. River Brahmaputra enters Bay of Bengal through.. A) Karnataka. B) Odisha. C) Bangladesh. D) Arabian Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bangladesh. 31. How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks? A) The freezing water keeps the rocks in place. B) The freezing water makes the rocks last longer. C) The freezing water expands inside the cracks and breaks the rocks. D) The freezing causes rocks to fall in landslides. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The freezing water expands inside the cracks and breaks the rocks. 32. Europe has ..... peninsulas. A) 7. B) 4. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 33. North and South Korea are located on what landform? A) Peninsula. B) Valley. C) Island. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peninsula. 34. What country does the Mediterranean Sea provide access to? A) Turkey. B) Africa. C) The us. D) North Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turkey. 35. ABOOUT ..... % OF THE TOTAL AREA OF THE STATE IS DROUGHT PRONE A) 36. B) 64. C) 50. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 64. 36. He hypothesized and scientifically demonstrated the earth had a spherical shape? A) Eratosthenes. B) Herodotus. C) Karl Marx. D) Aristotle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aristotle. 37. What is the least important resource to the EM? A) Oil. B) Water. C) Lumber. D) Natural gas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lumber. 38. To artificially water crops A) Irrigation. B) Oasis. C) Tributary. D) Harmattan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irrigation. 39. The country of Panama is on A) An archipelago. B) An isthmus. C) An island. D) A volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An isthmus. 40. Followers of this religion are called Muslims. A) Christianity. B) Islam. C) Judaism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Islam. 41. Which river creates a border between Romania and Bulgaria? A) Oder. B) Danube. C) Dnieper. D) Elbe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Danube. 42. Winston Churchill described the boundary between the Russia and Western Europe as A) The Berlin Wall. B) The Iron Curtain. C) The Iron Wall. D) The Dark Fog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Iron Curtain. 43. What layer of the Earth does lava come from? A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) Inner Core. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mantle. 44. Part of the Rocky Mountains, this separates water that flows west into the Pacific Ocean and water that flows east and south into the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico is known as the: A) Fall Line. B) Timber Line. C) Great Divide. D) Chinook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Divide. 45. The lithosphere is made up of what? A) All the Earth's water. B) Gases surrounding the Earth. C) The solid crust of the planet. D) Two halves of the planet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The solid crust of the planet. 46. What is an underwater plain that borders a continent? A) Isthmus. B) Continental Shelf. C) Axis. D) Tundra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental Shelf. 47. Which of the following is NOT true about the Alps? A) The Alps provide a natural barrier for Italy from foreign enemies and invaders throughout history. B) The Alps provide Switzerland, France & Italy with a great tourism industry because they are so beautiful. C) The Alps create a rain shadow in Italy which make for fertile soil on the windward side of the mountain in Northern Italy. D) The Alps have created cultural distinctions between Italy & France because people cannot easily travel through them and create cultural diffusion between these countries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Alps create a rain shadow in Italy which make for fertile soil on the windward side of the mountain in Northern Italy. 48. Which ocean has the most earthquakes? A) Arctic Ocean. B) Indian Ocean. C) Pacific Ocean. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pacific Ocean. 49. Which of the landforms were formed by tectonic plates? A) Atlas Mountains. B) Galapagos Islands. C) Appalaichian Mountains. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atlas Mountains. 50. Who mostly made this quiz? A) Women. B) Men. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women. 51. Who is your favorite math teacher? A) Mr. DeVoe. B) Mr. DeVoe. C) Mr. DeVoe. D) Mr. DeVoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. DeVoe. 52. Which of of the following best describes the effect of the Mediterranean Sea on Europe's people and culture over time. A) The Mediterranean Sea creates tornadoes which affects people on the coasts. B) The Mediterranean Sea gives countries the ability to trade and for people to freely move around the European continent. C) The Mediterranean Sea gets very cold every four years and affects the fishing industry in the region. D) The Mediterranean Sea has glaciers that are melting and making sea level rise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mediterranean Sea gives countries the ability to trade and for people to freely move around the European continent. 53. Which region in China hosts the majority of its farming? A) Gobi Desert. B) Tibetan Plateau. C) North China Plain. D) Taklamakan Basin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) North China Plain. 54. The most important body of water in Southern Europe. Stretches from Spain to Greece and is almost completely surrounded by land. A) Danube River. B) Mid-Atlantic Ridge. C) Caspian Sea. D) Mediterranean Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mediterranean Sea. 55. What desert is located in southern Africa? A) Gobi. B) Sahara. C) Kalahari. D) Sahel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kalahari. 56. It is a branch of geography that studies natural and human constructed phenomena relative to a spatial dimension? A) Human Geography. B) Geography. C) Physical Geography. D) World History. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical Geography. 57. All of the following are mountain systems along South Asia's northern border EXCEPT the A) Karakoram. B) Himalaya. C) Kunlan Shah. D) Hindu Kush. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kunlan Shah. 58. Weathering means breaking up material in nature, while ..... means moving the material away. A) Population. B) Deposition. C) Erosion. D) Decomposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erosion. 59. Which river is the principal river in western Africa? A) Nile. B) Niger. C) Mekong. D) Congo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Niger. 60. Why is the Northern European Plain an important place in Europe? A) It provides mountains for tourism and rain shadows. B) It provides geothermal energy because of its geysers. C) It is great for fishing because of its many fjords and archipelagos. D) It is great for farming because of its rich, fertile soil. 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