This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Physical > Physical Geography – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Physical Geography Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why has Singapore been such a successful country? A) Its great farming industry. B) Its location close to the US. C) Its tourism industry. D) Its location on a major shipping route. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Its location on a major shipping route. 2. A map showing an area described as Marine West Coast would be a ..... map. A) Temperature. B) Climate. C) Weather. D) Physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climate. 3. A region where tall grasses grow A) Sahara. B) Sahel. C) Rain forest. D) Savanna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Savanna. 4. Boundary between ocean and landforms A) Cliff. B) Coast. C) River. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coast. 5. A strong, dry wind that blows in winter, carrying clouds of sand and dust A) Cash crop. B) Drought. C) Nomad. D) Harmattan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harmattan. 6. ..... CLIMATE PREVAILS OVER BLUE MOUNTAINS, ANNAMALAI AND KODAIKANAL HILLS A) MARITIME. B) HOT WET. C) COOL. D) MOUNTAIN. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) MOUNTAIN. 7. Which of the following natural resources are found in Russia? A) Coal. B) Oil. C) Natural Gas. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 8. Connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Seas. (Also separates Europe and Africa) A) Alps. B) English Channel. C) Chunnel. D) Straight of Gibraltar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straight of Gibraltar. 9. Allowed people from the North to enter parts of South ASia A) Khyber Pass. B) Himalayas. C) Deccan Plateau. D) Ganges River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Khyber Pass. 10. Japan is located in which ocean? A) Arctic Ocean. B) Pacific Ocean. C) Indian Ocean. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pacific Ocean. 11. An area of flat land that is higher than the surrounding land A) Plateau. B) Mesa. C) Plains. D) Swamp. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plateau. 12. What is a group islands that are close together called? A) Coniferous. B) Fishing fleet. C) Deciduous. D) Archipelago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Archipelago. 13. Earth spinning on its axis one time every 24 hours is A) Rotation. B) Revolution. C) Respiratory. D) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rotation. 14. Which mountain range runs along the spine of the Italian Peninsula? A) Tagus. B) Apennines. C) Pyrenees. D) Alps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apennines. 15. The Khyber Pass is located between A) Afghanistan and Pakistan. B) Nepal and Bhutan. C) India and Sri Lanka. D) India and Nepal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afghanistan and Pakistan. 16. DOLE estimates 10 million workers will lose jobs this year due to COVID-19 pandemic. Which area of geography does this unemployment fall under? A) Physical Geography. B) Human Geography. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human Geography. 17. Which of the following is on a subcontinent? A) Japan. B) India. C) South Korea. D) China. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) India. 18. What tells you the meaning of symbols found on a map? A) Compass rose. B) Scale. C) Date. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legend. 19. The ..... is the area of land that divides the desert from wetter areas. A) Oasis. B) Sahara. C) Savanna. D) Sahel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sahel. 20. Oceans. Which area of geography does this fall under? A) Physical Geography. B) Human Geography. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physical Geography. 21. Water on 3 sides A) Island. B) Peninsula. C) Continent. D) Border. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peninsula. 22. What is another term for relative location? A) Absolute. B) General. C) Specific. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) General. 23. What has increased international trade in the Antillean regions of the Caribbean Sea? A) The numerous species of marine life such as manatee, dolphins, and sea turtles. B) The utilization of marine resources and commercial fishing. C) The tourism industry that benefits from the climate. D) Hydroelectricity generated from rivers flowing down from mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The utilization of marine resources and commercial fishing. 24. A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley A) Peninsula. B) Western Uplands. C) Fjord. D) Taiga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fjord. 25. Why would the U. S. and Canada be considered as one region in the world? A) F. single land mass. B) G. similar cultural traits. C) H. similar historic development. D) J. all of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) J. all of the above. 26. Which desert covers nearly the entire Arabian Peninsula? A) Arabian. B) Kalahari. C) Gobi. D) Sahara. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arabian. 27. What term refers to people relying on the environment? A) Depend. B) Adapt. C) Modify. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Depend. 28. On which of the following regions would you most likely find good land for grazing animals such at cattle? A) Rocky Mountains. B) Atlantic Coastal Plain. C) Canadian Shield. D) Great Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Plains. 29. What are farmland and plains A) Change this!!!. B) Crops and farmland. C) Fertile farmlands and flat plains. D) Change This!!!!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fertile farmlands and flat plains. 30. The Mississippi River begins in which state? A) Michigan. B) Minnesota. C) Main. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minnesota. 31. How many time zones are covered in Russia? A) 2. B) 9. C) 11. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 11. 32. The largest continent by area and population A) North America. B) Asia. C) Antarctica. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asia. 33. India collided and ..... with ..... A) Fused, Asia. B) Danny Phantom'd, Africa. C) Broke apart, Pangea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fused, Asia. 34. What is an area located at the mouth of a river A) Desalination. B) Ocean. C) Delta. D) Sand Build-Up. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delta. 35. ''Monsoon" refers to the seasonal ..... in wind direction during a ..... A) Addition, month. B) Reversal, year. C) Neutralization, week. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reversal, year. 36. Where do most parrots, monkeys, and snakes live in Africa? A) In the steppes. B) In the tropical savanna. C) On the rainforest floor. D) In the rainforest canopy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In the rainforest canopy. 37. A flat treeless plain with permanently frozen ground which covers the area farthest northern Canada A) Tundra. B) Plateau. C) Mountain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tundra. 38. Which country contains the highest peak in Europe? A) Germany. B) Portugal. C) France. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 39. In the saying Super Man Helps Every one what does Man stand for A) Missouri. B) Superior. C) Michagan. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michagan. 40. Wide, grassy plains in central Argentina are called A) Estuary. B) Patagonia. C) Pampas. D) Grassy Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pampas. 41. Capital of Romania A) Prague. B) Bucharest. C) Budapest. D) Lisbon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bucharest. 42. Mountain range located in western Russia; forms the boundary between Europe and Asia A) Pyrenees Mountains. B) Ural Mountains. C) Rocky Mountains. D) Alps Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ural Mountains. 43. How was the Western Uplands created? A) By earthquakes. B) By erosion. C) By glaciers. D) By volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By glaciers. 44. Why are The Bosporus & The Dardanelles important water forms in Europe? A) Because they connect the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and allow ships to travel from Asia all the way through the Mediterranean and to the Atlantic. B) Because they are mountains that create barriers and rain shadows causing deserts in Europe. C) Because they are responsible for creating the Northern European Plain. D) Because they are man-made canals that would not be there if humans had not created them for ships to pass through. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because they connect the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea and allow ships to travel from Asia all the way through the Mediterranean and to the Atlantic. 45. What is the largest river is Russia? A) Po. B) Rhone. C) Tagus. D) Volga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volga. 46. Any useful material found in the environment A) Organic Resources. B) Non-renewable Resources. C) Natural Resources. D) Renewable Resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural Resources. 47. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. A) The Atmosphere. B) The Lithosphere. C) The asthenosphere. D) The Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Lithosphere. 48. Where do most people in Australia live? A) In the Outback. B) In New Zealand. C) Along the coast. D) Near the desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Along the coast. 49. What are effects on glaciers A) Icelands. B) Glaciers and ice. C) Crops and ice. D) Slow moving sheets of ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slow moving sheets of ice. 50. Norway is located on the which peninsula? A) Iberian. B) Scandinavian. C) Balkan. D) Apennine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scandinavian. 51. Nations such as the United States, Great Britain, and France formed a military alliance after WWII called A) The Warsaw Pact. B) The Allies. C) NATO. D) SEATO. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NATO. 52. The Deccan Plateau and Western Pakistan A) May receive little or no yearly rainfall. B) May receive large amounts of rain. C) Lay inside the monsoon's path. D) Are vital to farmers in the region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) May receive little or no yearly rainfall. 53. Which two physical features do the United States and Canada share? A) Appalachian Mountains and Mississippi River. B) St. Lawrence Seaway and Rocky Mountains. C) Mississippi River and the Great Lakes. D) Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes. 54. What kind of climate does the Cape of Good Hope have? A) Marine Climate. B) Mediterranean Climate. C) Subarctic Climate. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mediterranean Climate. 55. Which of the following is NOT a positive effect of the building of the Three Gorges Dam? A) Huge amounts of energy will be produced. B) Hundreds of historic sites will be submerged. C) Flooding will be controlled. D) It will be easier to ship goods to China's interior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hundreds of historic sites will be submerged. 56. Which is on the Canada flag? A) Blue field. B) 50 stars. C) Red maple leaf. D) 13 stripes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red maple leaf. 57. Which ocean borders the EAST coast of the United States and Canada? A) Indian Ocean. B) Southern Ocean. C) Pacific Ocean. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atlantic Ocean. 58. What are the major river systems in South Asia? A) Tigris and Euphrates. B) Indus and Ganges. C) Danube and Rhine. D) Nile and Tigris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indus and Ganges. 59. What is the definition of human geography? A) The study of mountains. B) Geography dealing with animals only. C) Geography dealing with Earth's natural features. D) Geography dealing with human-made features. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geography dealing with human-made features. 60. The largest country in the world, which covers all of northern Asia and almost half of Europe A) Russia. B) Ukraine. C) Poland. D) Switzerland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Russia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesPhysical Geography Quiz 1Physical Geography Quiz 2Physical Geography Quiz 3Physical Geography Quiz 4Physical Geography Quiz 5Physical Geography Quiz 6Physical Geography Quiz 7Physical Geography Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books