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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In development geography, geographers study spatial patterns in development and study the standard of living and Quality of life of inhabitants.
Study of humans in the past and present societies is known as Anthropology.

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The orbital speed of the Earth around the Sun averages about 30 km/s (108,000 km/h), which is fast enough to cover the planet’s diameter (about 12,700 km) in seven minutes, and the distance to the Moon of 384,000 km in four hours

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Argentina is the first country to have permanent base on Antarctica. It is defined by Antarctica Treaty system. It Dakshin Gangotri is the first Indian base in Antarctica.

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Venezuela meaning in Italian means “Little venice”. Little Venice is actually a district in West London. Venice is a city in Italy.

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The Acasta Gneiss is located in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The rock is exposed on an island about 300 kilometers north of Yellowknife. The Acasta Gneiss is one of the oldest known intact crustal fragments on Earth. The rock was metamorphosed between 3.58 and 4.031 billion years ago.  The Acasta Gneiss was first described in 1989. It was discovered during fieldwork in 1983 by Geological Survey of Canada geologist Janet King.  Gneiss is a type of rock that has been metamorphosed by intense heat and pressure at depth in Earth’s crust. The original, unmetamorphosed rock was a granite, an intrusive igneous rock.

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Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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Stars have a life cycle that starts from a nebula, a cloud of dust and plentiful gas. From this, a protostar is formed which, if it has sufficient mass, becomes a red dwarf. As the star exhausts its hydrogen, it becomes a white dwarf and eventually, it may explode as a supernova. Not all stars go through the same cycle, as it depends on their mass.

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Halley’s Comet is arguably the most famous comet. It is a “periodic” comet and returns to Earth’s vicinity about every 75 years, making it possible for a human to see it twice in his or her lifetime. The last time it was here was in 1986, and it is projected to return in 2061.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on December 2,2019 oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that will transport natural gas from Siberia to northeast China, an economic and political boost to ties between Moscow and Beijing. The 3,000-km-long (1,865 mile) Power of Siberia pipeline will transport gas from the Chayandinskoye and Kovytka fields in eastern Siberia, a project expected to last for three decades and to generate $400 billion for Russian state coffers.