Olympiad Test Level 1: World Geography- 1 - Class 6 MCQ

The Gulf of Mexico, bordered by the United States, Mexico, and the island nation of Cuba, is the world’s largest gulf. It has a coastline of about 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles).

The River Seine is situated in France. The Seine is a 777-kilometre-long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.

• With measured depths in excess of 200 m, the Congo River is the deepest river in the world.
• Located in the African Continent, it is also the second-largest river by discharge and the ninth longest river in the world with a length of 4,700 km.
• It originates from the Lualaba River and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km².

• Finland is called the "Land of Thousand Lakes".
• There are approximately 168,000 lakes and 179,000 islands in Finland.
• Saimaa, its biggest lake, is Europe's fourth-largest.
• The Finnish Lakeland has the most lakes in the world, and many of the country's major cities, including Tampere, Jyväskylä, and Kuopio, are in close proximity to the large lakes.

• Tierra del Fuego National Park is the world’s southernmost national park. It’s located on the island of Tierra del Fuego, which is part of a larger archipelago known by the same name.
• The 245-square-mile park is in Argentina, but borders Chile. It’s both a UNESCO World Heritage site and an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Category II park.

Africa is the second-largest continent in the world with 6% of the total geographical area and 20.4% of the land area of the world. It is surrounded by Mediterranean sea to the north, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean in the West, the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea in the northeast. It has a tropical and subtropical type of climate. It is the hottest continent in the world.

The Urals rise like a long and narrow spine across western Russia, forming a natural divide between Europe and Asia. The mountain range spans 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) passing through Arctic tundra to the north and through forested and semi-desert landscapes to the south.

• The headquarters of the International Red Cross Committee is located in Geneva, Switzerland.
• The International Committee Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and a three-time Nobel Prize laureate.
• States Parties (signatories) to the 1949 Geneva Convention and its 1977 Additional Protocols (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 gave the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of foreign and internal armed conflict.
• The ICRC, along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 192 National Societies, is a member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• It is the oldest and most respected movement organization and one of the world's most known organizations, having received three Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917, 1944, and 1963.

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by the erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams over a very long period of time.