Rivers & Lakes MCQs set 3 for PPSC Zilladar (Revenue) Geography — 20 solved questions.
Q1. Great Bear Lake is located in:
Answer: Canada
Explanation: Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada and the fourth largest in North America, is located in the Northwest Territories above the Arctic Circle.
Q2. The Baran River is located in?
Answer: Sindh
Explanation: The Baran River flows through Balochistan province, draining into the Hamoun-i-Mashkel basin near the Pakistan-Iran border.
Q3. Which of the following rivers flow in Canada?
Answer: All of these
Explanation: The Mackenzie, Nelson, and Fraser rivers all flow entirely or substantially within Canada, making all three Canadian rivers.
Q4. Which of these is a process of transportation in a river?
Answer: Attrition
Explanation: Rivers transport material through four processes - traction, saltation, suspension, and solution; attrition is actually a process of erosion (wearing down of particles), not transportation.
Q5. The Shatt al-Arab is a river that forms part of the border between which two countries?
Answer: Iran and Iraq
Q6. "MEANDER" means:
Answer: Curved path of a river
Q7. Which of the following is considered the deepest lake in the world?
Answer: Lake Baikal
Explanation: Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, reaches a maximum depth of about 1,642 m, making it the world's deepest lake and also the largest by volume of fresh water.
Q8. Which is the longest river of the world?
Answer: Nile
Q9. Paris, the capital of France, is situated on the bank of which river?
Answer: Seine
Explanation: Paris, the capital of France, is built along the banks of the River Seine, which flows through the heart of the city.
Q10. Red Lake is situated in:
Answer: America
Explanation: Red Lake is a large freshwater lake located in northern Minnesota, United States, making it situated in America.
Q11. Great Salt Lake is located in:
Answer: Utah, US
Explanation: The Great Salt Lake, the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, lies in the state of Utah in the United States.
Q12. The deepest part of Earth is:
Answer: Mariana Trench
Explanation: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest known point on Earth at approximately 11,034 metres below sea level.
Q13. Manchar Lake is in which province?
Answer: Sindh
Explanation: Manchar Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake in Pakistan, is located in Dadu district of Sindh province.
Q14. Which is the wettest or rainiest place in the world?
Answer: Mawsynram, India
Q15. The Blue Nile originates from Lake Tana in Ethiopia, and the White Nile originates from Lake Victoria. The Blue and White Nile meet at _______ and form the world's longest river, the Nile.
Answer: Khartoum
Explanation: The Blue Nile from Ethiopia and the White Nile from Uganda converge at Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, to form the main Nile River that flows northward to Egypt.
Q16. Great Bear Lake is located in which country?
Answer: Canada
Explanation: Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada and the fourth largest in North America, is located in the Northwest Territories.
Q17. From where does the Jhelum River start?
Answer: Held Kashmir
Explanation: The Jhelum River rises from Verinag Spring in the Kashmir Valley (Held/Occupied Kashmir) before flowing westward into Pakistan.
Q18. Asian countries without rivers:
Answer: All of these
Explanation: Yemen, Kuwait, and Qatar are all Arabian Peninsula countries that lack perennial rivers due to extremely arid climates and lack of rainfall sustaining permanent river flow.
Q19. Phander Lake is located in?
Answer: Gilgit Baltistan
Explanation: Phander Lake is a scenic glacial lake situated in the Ghizer District of Gilgit-Baltistan, fed by the Phander River.
Q20. The Rhine flows through ____ countries.
Answer: 6
Explanation: The Rhine flows through six countries: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, France, and the Netherlands before emptying into the North Sea.