Important MCQs Based On World Physical Features From UPSC Prelims are given below :
1. The area known as ‘Golan Heights’ sometimes appears in the news in the context of the events related to
(a) Central Asia
(b) Middle East
(c) South-East Asia
(d) Central Africa
Answer : (b)
2. Turkey is located between
(a) Black Sea and Caspian Sea
(b) Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea
(c) Gulf of Suez and Mediterranean Sea
(d) Gulf of Aqaba and Dead Sea
Answer : (b)
3. Which one of the following can one comes across if one travels through the Strait of Malacca?
(a) Bali
(b) Brunei
(c) Java
(d) Singapore
Answer : (d)
4. Which one of the following is the country’s administrative capital/new federal administrative centre of Malaysia?
(a) Kota Bharu
(b) Kuala Terengganu
(c) Putrajaya
(d) Taiping
Answer : (c)
5. Which of the following countries share borders with Moldova?
1) Ukraine
2) Romania
3) Belarus
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Codes:
(a) 1 & 2 only
(b) 2 & 3 only
(c) 1 & 3 only
(d) 1, 2 & 3
Answer : (a)
6. Which of the following cities is nearest to the equator?
(a) Colombo
(b) Jakarta
(c) Manila
(d) Singapore
Answer : (d)
7. In which one of the following is Malta located?
(a) Baltic Sea
(b) Mediterranean Sea
(c) Black Sea
(d) North Sea
Answer : (b)
8. Where is Copacabana Beach located?
(a) Buenos Aires
(b) Hawaiian Islands
(c) Rio de Janeiro
(d) Valletta
Answer : (c)
9. Other than India and China, which of the following groups of countries border Myanmar?
(a) Bangladesh, Thailand and Vietnam
(b) Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia
(c) Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia
(d) Thailand, Laos and Bangladesh
Answer : (d)
10. Through which one of the following Straits, does a tunnel connect the United Kingdom and France?
(a) Davis Strait
(b) Denmark Strait
(c) Strait of Dover
(d) Strait of Gibraltar
Answer : (c)
11. Through which one of the following groups of countries does the Equator pass?
(a) Brazil, Zambia and Malaysia
(b) Colombia, Kenya and Indonesia
(c) Brazil, Sudan and Malaysia
(d) Venezuela, Ethiopia and Indonesia
Answer : (b)
12. Consider the following statements:
1) Length of a terrestrial mile is lesser than that of a nautical mile.
2) Harmattan is a dusty land-wind of the East African Coast
3) Greece and Albania form a part of the Iberian Peninsula
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 1 only
Answer : (d) Hint : Iberian peninsula includes Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar. Harmattan is a dry and dusty wind of West Africa.
13. Huangpu River flows through which one of the following cities?
(a) Beijing
(b) Ho Chi Minh City
(c) Shanghai
(d) Manila
Answer : (c)
14. Bermuda triangle extends up to which of the following places?
1) Southern Florida
2) Puerto Rico
3) Hawaii Islands
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1,2 & 3
(b) 1 & 2 only
(c) 2 & 3 only
(d) 1 & 3 only
Answer : (b)
15. Which one of the following countries does not border Lithuania?
(a) Poland
(b) Ukraine
(c) Belarus
(d) Latvia
Answer : (b)
16. Where are the Balearic Islands located?
(a) Mediterranean Sea
(b) Black Sea
(c) Baltic Sea
(d) North Sea
Answer : (a)
17. The great Asian river Mekong does not run through
(a) China
(b) Malaysia
(c) Cambodia
(d) Laos
Answer : (b)
18. Which one of the following cities is not a former capital of the given country (Country given in the brackets)?
(a) Karachi (Pakistan)
(b) Auckland (New Zealand)
(c) Kyoto (Japan)
(d) Brisbane (Australia)
Answer : (b)
19. Latvia does not share its borders with which one of the following countries?
(a) Russia
(b) Estonia
(c) Lithuania
(d) Poland
Answer : (d)
20. Itaipu Dam built on the River Parana is one of the largest dams in the world. Which of the following two countries have this as a joint project?
(a) Brazil and Peru
(b) Paraguay and Ecuador
(c) Brazil and Paraguay
(d) Colombia and Paraguay
Answer : (c)
21. Which one of the following countries is landlocked:
(a) Bolivia
(b) Peru
(c) Surinam
(d) Uruguay
Answer : (a)
22. Which one of the following does not border Panama?
(a) Costa Rica
(b) Pacific Ocean
(c) Colombia
(d) Venezuela
Answer : (d)
23. The waterfall ‘Victoria’ is associated with the river
(a) Amazon
(b) Missouri
(c) St. Lawrence
(d) Zambeji
Answer : (d)
24. Which one of the following countries does NOT border the Caspian Sea?
(a) Armenia
(b) Azerbaijan
(c) Kazakhstan
(d) Turkmenistan
Answer : (a)
25. Israel has common borders with:
(a) Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt
(b) Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Jordan
(c) Cyprus, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt
(d) Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Yemen
Answer : (a)
26. Consider the following countries:
1) Albania
2) Bosnia Herzegovina
3) Croatia
4) Macedonia
Which of these countries has/have Adriatic Sea as a boundary?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 4 only
(d) 3 and 4
Answer : (b)
27. Which one of the following lakes forms as international boundary between Tanzania and Uganda.
(a) Chad
(b) Malawi
(c) Victoria
(d) Zambezi
Answer : (c)
28. Assertion: In Australia, Cattle rearing is done more for meat than for milk.
Reason: Australians are traditionally nonvegetarians.
(a) Both A are R are true R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Answer : (b)
29. Which one of the following is known as the ‘Coffee Port’ of the world?
(a) Sao Paulo
(b) Santos
(c) Rio de Janerio
(d) Buenos Aires
Answer : (b)
30. Which one of the following countries of South-West Asia does not open out to the Mediterranean Sea?
(a) Syria
(b) Jordan
(c) Lebanon
(d) Israel
Answer : (b)
Also refer :
- Download the pdf of Important MCQs From the History Of Ancient India
- List Of Important Inscriptions In India
