World Geography - MCQs with answers - Part II

ANSWER: a) Great slave

The Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada, the deepest lake in North America and the tenth-largest lake in the world.

ANSWER: c) Atacama

The Atacama Desert is a plateau in South America. It is the driest non-polar desert in the world.

ANSWER: b) Lake Superior

The lake is shared by Canada's Ontario and the United State's Minnesota to the north and west, and Wisconsin and Michigan to the south.

ANSWER: d) Titicaca

Titicaca or Titiqaqa is a lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It is the largest lake in South America by volume of water.

ANSWER: d) The Andes

The Andes is the longest continental mountain range in the world. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America.

ANSWER: c) Amazon

The Amazon River in South America is the largest river by discharge of water in the world.

ANSWER: d) Caucasus

The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

ANSWER: d) Peipus

Lake Peipus is the biggest trans-boundary lake in Europe on the border between Estonia and Russia.

ANSWER: d) Mekong

Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia.

ANSWER: b) New South Wales

It is Australia's oldest and most populated state. It was originally settled as a penal colony on the shores of Port Jackson where the bustling capital city of Sydney now stands. More than a third of Australians live in New South Wales, and Sydney is the nation's largest city.