Water Resources Quiz 5

Water Resources Quiz 5

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1. Victoria Falls is a waterfall in southern Africa. On which African river is the Victoria Falls?

Nile
Zambezi
Congo
Niger

2. What is the largest body of water on Earth?

Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean

3. Which famous explorer coined the name Pacific Ocean?

Christopher Columbus
Captain James Cook
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama

4. Which one of the following rivers Is called the "Life Line of Madhya Pradesh"?

Krishna
Narmada
Godavari
Tapti

5. The area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur is called

Ring of Fire
Pacific Belt
Volcano Pacifica
Bermuda Triangle

6. Name the superocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea

Pacific Ocean
Panagic Ocean
Panthalassa
Plato-pacific Ocean

7. An aquatic system lacking dissolved oxygen (0% saturation) is termed as

Anoxic
Hypoxic
Dysoxic
Endoxic

8. What is a deep, narrow and elongated sea or lakedrain, with steep land on three sides created by glacial erosion?

Estuary
Glacier
Creek
Fjord

9. Kraken Mare is the largest known body of liquid on the surface of the moon of which one of the following planets?

Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Mars

10. Name the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area

Caspian Sea
Baikal
Lake Superior
Lake Malawi

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