FUNDAMENTAL OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY MCQS SET 38

FUNDAMENTAL OF WORLD GEOGRAPHY MCQS SET 38

1. ____ islands are the "cross roads of the Pacific".
(a) Fiji
(b) Falkland
(c) Windward
(d) Hawaiian
Ans: (d)


2. The canal that connects the upper Hudson at Albany with the Great Lakes at Buffalo is
(a) Erie canal
(b) Kiel canal
(c) North Sea canal
(d) Trent and Mersey canal
Ans: (a)

3. Albert Canal links ____ and ____
(a) Manchester and Antwerp
(b) Antwerp and Frankfurt
(c) Antwerp and Liege
(d) Manchester and Liege
Ans: (c)


4. The first steam boat was built by
(a) Stevenson
(b) Newton
(c) James Watt
(d) Robert Fulton
Ans: (d)


5. The Great Circle routes join
(a) London to Los Angeles and Amsterdam to Tokyo
(b) Vancouver to Quebec and Perth to Melbourne
(c) Perth to Tokyo and London to Quebec
(d) Los Angeles to Perth and Tokyo to Bombay
Ans: (a)


6. The river that runs along the USA-Mexico boundary is
(a) Rio-Grande
(b) Gila
(c) Mississippi
(d) Colorado
Ans: (a)


7. Which one of the following layers of the atmosphere is responsible for the deflection of radio waves?
(a) Troposphere
(b) Stratosphere
(c) Mesosphere
(d) Ionosphere
Ans: (d)


8. Hammada is the name given to ____.
(a) an icy desert
(b) a sandy desert
(c) a stony desert
(d) None of the above
Ans: (c)


9. ____ is a land locked country.
(a) Bangladesh
(b) Myanmar
(c) Nepal
(d) Sri Lanka
Ans: (c)


10. The capital city of Kenya is ____.
(a) Nairobi
(b) Entebbe
(c) Cairo
(d) Port Louis
Ans: (a)