Geography Mixed Quiz: Set 65

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.

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

The Great Rift Valley runs for about six thousand kilometres from the Jordan valley and the Dead Sea, down the Red Sea, through Ethiopia and the lake region of East Africa to Mozambique, and it is the largest rift on the continents, formed where the crust is being pulled apart.

Only the Aral Sea has shrunk drastically because of human activity. The Aral Sea, on the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, was once the world's fourth-largest lake.

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.

Of the six countries listed, the Andes pass through Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, but not through Brazil or Paraguay.

The correct answer is B, Mount Elbrus, 5,642 metres, a dormant volcano in the Caucasus range in Russia and the highest point of the continent.

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.

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.

New Zealand forms the south-western corner of the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific islands are grouped into three regions.

The Volga, about 3,530 kilometres long, is the longest river of Europe and flows entirely within Russia to end in the Caspian, which is a landlocked salt lake and the largest lake in the world, so the Volga never reaches an ocean.

In January the northern oceans are warmer than the frozen continents, so isotherms bend north over the sea and south over the land; the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift are warm currents, not cold ones.

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…

Plantations do lie mostly in the humid tropics, but the soils there are generally poor, not highly fertile. Plantation farming grows a single cash crop such as tea, coffee, rubber, sugarcane, cocoa, banana or oil palm on large estates with heavy capital and hired labour.

It also passes more capital cities than any other river, among them Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.

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

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 Ural mountains, an old worn range running north to south across Russia, together with the Ural river, the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, form the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia, which is why the two are often treated as one land mass called Eurasia.

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.

The Masai are a cattle-keeping people of the East African savanna, moving their herds with the seasonal rains; their life is the standard textbook example of pastoral nomadism in the tropical grasslands.