World & Physical Geography MCQs

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The buran wind blows across eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. The buran takes two forms: in summer, it is a hot, dry wind, whipping up sandstorms; in winter, it is bitterly cold and often accompanied by blizzards.

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Environmental determinism is the belief that the environment and its physical factors like landforms, climate, mountains etc. determines the patterns of human culture and societal development.
Possibilism based upon the assumption that environment sets certain constraints or limitations, but culture is otherwise determined by social conditions. This theory says that the true and only geographical problem is that to utilisation of possibilities.
Nondeterminism or stop and go determinism which chooses middle path and it is introduced by Griffith Taylor.

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Systematic approach of geography is divided into four main branches.
(i) Physical geography,
(ii) Biogeography, including environmental geography,
(iii) Human geography,
(iv) Geographical methods and techniques
Regional approach geography is divided into
(i) Regional studies
(ii) Regional analysis
(iii) Regional development
(iv) Regional planning including areas and community planning

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In the continent of Australia, the northern section of Australia has a more tropical influenced climate, hot and humid in the summer, and quite warm and dry in the winter, while the southern parts are cooler with mild summers and cool, sometimes rainy winters. So it doesn’t have Tundra type of climate.

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Malawi is formerly known as Nyasaland. Malawi is a landlocked country in southeastern Africa. It has a topography of highlands split by the Great Rift Valley and enormous Lake Malawi.

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A nappe is defined as thrust sheet or like body of rock that has been moved more than 2 km from its original position due to tectonic movements.

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Levee is a naturally occurring or artificially created landform which separates the floodplains from river valley. A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. Isthmus a narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.

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Pulsar emit radio (electromagnetic) signals at regular interval of time. Pulsars are a kind of neutron stars and the emission is detectable when the source of beam of the electromagnetic waves is towards Earth. This is known as Light house effect and is gives a pulsed nature to pulsars.

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Tibetian Plateau towers over southwestern China at an average elevation of 4000 m above sea level and is known as “the roof of the world.” It covers more than 2.5 million square km. The Qinghai-Tibetan plateau is the highest and largest plateau in the world.

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Mars is the only planet with similar day time temperatures and an atmosphere similar to earth. The most relevant condition for presence of life on Mars is occurrence of ice caps and frozen water.