World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Nebular theory was formulated by Laplace which describes the formation of the Sun and solar system. Laplace along with his colleague John Michel, introduced the idea of a “dark star,” which later came to be called as black hole.

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Aral Sea, located in Central Asia, was once one of the world’s largest inland seas. However, due to extensive irrigation projects diverting water from its two main sources, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, for agricultural purposes, the Aral Sea has significantly shrunk over the decades. This diversion of water has resulted in severe environmental and ecological problems, including the shrinking of the sea’s surface area and the creation of a large desert-like region known as the Aral Sea’s “desertification.”

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The Mekong–Ganga Cooperation was established on November 10, 2000, at Vientiane, Laos. It comprises six member countries India, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. China is not a member.

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The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. These cities are located on Honshu and Kyushu atchipelago.

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Tornado Alley is a colloquial term for the area in United States where strongest tornadoes occur most frequently. The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in only areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Colorado, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

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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.

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The Great Barrier Reef archipelago is located off the coast of Queensland in Australia. It is the world’s largest coral reef system and also selected as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Bassas de Pedro Atoll is found in Lakshadweep, in the Arabian Sea. It is a sunken atoll belonging to the Amindivi subgroup of Islands in the UT of Lakshadweep.

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Indus is a constellation in the southern sky. The name of the constellation means the “Indian” and it is illustrated as a man holding arrows without a bow.

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Oort cloud is the remains of the early stages of our solar system’s formation. It spans beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. It was discovered by Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort in 1950.