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World Geographical Records

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World geographical records encompass the extremes of physical geography, including the largest lakes, islands, oceans, and trenches. These factual questions test knowledge of global superlatives and major geographical features. This topic is a staple in general studies sections of UPSC, state PSC, and SSC exams.

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World Geographical Records Questions

Multiple choice geography endogenetic movements endogenic process and creation of mountains major domains of the earth land and oceans study of continents - north america earth's movement and creation of landforms earthquake earthquakes

Which is the deepest fresh water lake in the world?

  1. Lake Superior

  2. Lake Baikal

  3. Lake Victoria

  4. Lake Chilika
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lake Baikal in southern Russia is the world's deepest lake. It is an estimated 5,387 ft deep and its bottom is approximately 3,893 ft below sea level. It is also the deepest freshwater lake in the world.

Multiple choice geography endogenetic movements endogenic process and creation of mountains major domains of the earth land and oceans study of continents - north america earth's movement and creation of landforms earthquake earthquakes

Which lake is the highest navigable lake in the world?

  1. Lake Victoria

  2. Lake Superior

  3. Lake Baikal

  4. Lake Titicaca
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The highest commercially navigable lake is Lake Titicaca, which lies in the Altiplano at a height of 3,810 m above sea level on the Andean border between Peru and Bolivia. It's surface covers approximately 8,300 km² and has an average depth between 140-180 m.

Multiple choice geography endogenetic movements endogenic process and creation of mountains major domains of the earth land and oceans study of continents - north america earth's movement and creation of landforms earthquake earthquakes

Which strait joins the Arctic ocean and the Pacific ocean and seperates the continents of Asia and north America?

  1. Strait of Gibralter

  2. Bering Strait

  3. Strait of Malacca

  4. Davis Strait
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Bering Strait joins the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point. The strait averages 98 to 164 ft. in depth and at it's narrowest is about 53 miles wide. The strait was named after Vitus Bering, a Danish Captain, who sailed into the strait in 1728.

Multiple choice geography endogenetic movements endogenic process and creation of mountains major domains of the earth land and oceans study of continents - north america earth's movement and creation of landforms earthquake earthquakes

The biggest lake of fresh water in the world is _____________.

  1. Baikallake

  2. Superior lake

  3. Nyasa lake

  4. Victoria lake
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Lake Superior is the largest lake in North America and also the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area and the third-largest by volume. Its surface area is approximately 31,700 square miles. The lake is shared by the province of Ontario in Canada, and the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the US. 

Lake Baikal is a rift lake located in southern Siberia, Russia,
Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African 
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.

Multiple choice geography endogenetic movements endogenic process and creation of mountains major domains of the earth land and oceans study of continents - north america earth's movement and creation of landforms earthquake earthquakes

Which is the largest fresh water lake in the world?

  1. Lake Onega

  2. Lake Ontario

  3. Lake Michigan

  4. Lake Superior
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Lake Superior, located on the border between the United States and Canada, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.

Multiple choice

tallest mountain in the world

  1. mount everest

  2. blue mountains

  3. mount fuji

  4. mount franklin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Mount Everest is the Earth's highest mountain above sea level, with a peak at 8,848.86 meters.

Multiple choice

What is the largest desert on earth?

  1. Sahara

  2. Gobi

  3. Arabian

  4. Great Victoria
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Sahara is the largest HOT desert in the world at 9.2 million square kilometers. If polar deserts are included, Antarctica is actually larger. Most quizzes mean hot desert when asking this.

Multiple choice evs - i water in our life where do we get water from? why conserve water uses of water

More than 70% of world's freshwater is contained in

  1. Polar ice

  2. Glaciers and mountains

  3. Antartica

  4. Greenland
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Oceans hold about 97% of water, and the Glacier’s and polar ice caps hold another 2%. The polar ice caps contain 77% of the world's fresh water supply and another 22% is trapped in the ground which leaves only 3% of the world’s fresh water supply in lakes and rivers.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.

Multiple choice evs water in our life where do we get water from? why conserve water uses of water

Largest amount of fresh water is found in

  1. Lakes and streams

  2. Underground

  3. Polar ice and glaciers

  4. Rivers
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Over 68 percent of freshwater is found in polar ice & glaciers, while 30 percent is found in ground water, 0.3 percent is found in surface water of lakes rivers & ponds

So, the correct answer is 'Polar ice and glaciers'

Multiple choice evs water in our life where do we get water from? why conserve water uses of water

More than 70% of world's freshwater is contained in

  1. Antarctica

  2. Glaciers and mountains

  3. Greenland

  4. Polar ice
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The oceans hold about 97% of water and the glaciers and polar ice caps hold another 2% of the total water on Earth. The polar ice caps contain 77% of the world's fresh water supply and another 22% is trapped in the ground, which leaves only 3% of the world’s fresh water supply in lakes and rivers. 

Multiple choice geography in search of the source of wind atmospheric pressure, pressure belts and winds elements of weather and climate :wind monsoon phenomena and its mechanism

Storms in the Pacific ocean are known as ______.

  1. Hurricanes

  2. The Typhoon

  3. Cyclones

  4. Willie-Willie
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Typhoon,

In the Atlantic and northern Pacific, the storms are called "hurricanes," after the Caribbean god of evil, named Hurrican. In the northwestern Pacific, the same powerful storms are called "typhoons." In the northern Indian Ocean, they're called "severe cyclonic storms."

Multiple choice geography life in tropical and subtropical regions life in the ganga - brahmaputra basin drainage system in brazil human environment interactions - the tropical and the subtropical region

Which river has the largest river basin in the world?

  1. Nile

  2. Amazon

  3. Brahmaputra

  4. Mississippi
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Amazon is the largest river in the world,situated in south America. It covers an area of 7,500,000 square km and 40% of the south America continent. The most important tributary is the Maraming river, which is the second largest river in the world.  Major part of the basin is covered with amazon rain forest.

Multiple choice social studies precautions for natural disasters cyclonic winds monsoon phenomena and its mechanism tsunami, floods, cyclones, droughts and landslides

Hurricane is a tropical cyclone that occurs in the ___________.

  1. Atlantic Ocean

  2. North-eastern Pacific Ocean

  3. Indian Ocean

  4. Both A & B
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Hurricanes are tropical cyclones that form over the North Atlantic Ocean and the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Those in the Northwest Pacific are called Typhoons, and those in the Indian Ocean are simply called Cyclones.

Multiple choice geography earthquakes and volcanoes volcanism types and features of earthquakes and volcanoes movement of the earth's plates

Wettest place on Earth is _____________.

  1. Nongpoh

  2. Cherrapunji

  3. Jowai

  4. Baghmara
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Sohra (temporarily called Cherrapunjee or Cherrapunji) is a subdivisional town in the East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. Sohra has often been credited as being the wettest place on Earth, but for now nearby Mawsynram currently holds that distinction.