Geography GK Questions with Answers – Page 49

The Bedouin are its best known nomadic people, and oases such as those of the Nile and the Fezzan support its settled life.

The Victoria Falls lie on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, where the Zambezi drops into a narrow basalt gorge; the local name Mosi-oa-Tunya means the smoke that thunders.

Its enormous basin lies on both sides of the Equator, so the river cuts the line twice before reaching the Atlantic.

Its highest summit is Kibo, also called Uhuru peak, and it stands close to the Equator yet carries snow and shrinking glaciers, a favourite illustration of climate changing with altitude.

The Pamir, mostly in Tajikistan, is the knot where the Himalaya, Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Kunlun and Tien Shan meet, and its height and position earned it this name, which is also used for the plateau of Tibet.

Enclosed by the Himalaya in the south, the Karakoram and Kunlun in the north-west and the Chinese mountains in the east, it averages well over four thousand metres and is called the roof of the world along with the Pamir; the Indus, the Sutlej, the Brahmaputra, the Yangtze and the…

The Strait of Hormuz lies between Iran on the north and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the south, and is the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman and so to the Arabian Sea; a very large share of the crude oil traded…

The Gobi lies in southern Mongolia and northern China, in the rain shadow of the Himalaya, which keeps the monsoon out; it is a cold desert with bitter winters, gravel plains rather than sand seas, and is known for dinosaur fossil beds.

Although it is called a sea because of its size and its saline water, it has no outlet to the ocean and is therefore the largest lake in the world by area.

It rises on the plateau of Tibet, flows across central China and enters the East China Sea near Shanghai, and is the longest river of Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon.

Lying in southern Siberia in a rift valley, Baikal is the deepest lake on the earth and holds the largest volume of fresh water of any lake, roughly a fifth of the unfrozen fresh water on the surface of the planet.

Asia and Europe lie on one landmass, and geographers mark the dividing line along the Ural mountains and the Ural river, then the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus and the Black Sea.

Nepal touches five Indian states, namely Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Sikkim, which is the largest number of States for any neighbour of India.

It stands on the border of Sikkim in India and the Taplejung district of eastern Nepal, and is the highest peak within India as well as the third highest in the world.

It runs for about eight hundred kilometres between the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, joining the Andaman Sea with the South China Sea, and is the longest strait in the world as well as one of the busiest shipping lanes, carrying a large share of the oil…

Spring tides have the highest high tides and the lowest low tides, so the tidal range is at its greatest.

Most of the Great Artesian Basin lies beneath Queensland, with smaller parts under New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Statement 1 describes the epicentre, not the hypocentre; statements 2 and 3 are correct. The hypocentre, or focus, is the point inside the Earth where the energy of an earthquake is released.

Land left uncultivated for more than one year but less than five years falls in this class of India's land-use records.

Slate is a metamorphic rock, formed when shale is changed by heat and pressure. Igneous rocks form when molten magma or lava cools and hardens.