World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Ptolemy made a number of contributions to geography. His book Geographike hyphegesis or “Guide to Geography” compiled and summarize much of the Greek and Roman geographic information accumulated at that time.
Geographia was written by Strabo

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Europa, or Jupiter II is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. It is the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 79 known moons of Jupiter. It is the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System and is smaller than earth’s moon.

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Asteroids also called the inner solar system are minor planets which are neither categorised as a planet or a comet. They are in direct orbit around the Sun. They primarily remain on the circumstellar disk of gas around new stars and also the debris of the disk together. They are also known as planetoids and range in size from hundreds of miles to few feet. Most of them are irregular in shape.  They are majorly present in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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The Arctic Circle is an imaginary line around the arctic. It’s defined as the latitude above which the sun does not set on the day of the summer solstice and never rises during the December Solstice. This is because the arctic and Antarctic circle have sunlight for 6 months continuously.

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Scotland is called the land of cakes. It is famous for the oatmeal cakes. In the ancient days oatmeal cakes are made only in Scotland.

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Jupiter is the planet that has the fastest rotation. It has an orbital period of 12 years. It is the fifth planet from the sun.

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The prevailing westerlies are one of the five primary wind zones, known as wind belts, that comprise our atmosphere’s circulatory system. They reach from where the horse latitudes leave off to approximately 60 degrees north and south latitude. The prevailing westerlies tend to be very unpredictable, but they are known to originate in the west more often than not. Wind speeds can be great in areas with few landmasses to interfere with the westerlies, especially around 40 to 50 degrees south latitude, which is nicknamed “the roaring 40s. Westerlies, anti-trades,or Prevailing Westerlies, are prevailing winds in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude, blowing from the high pressure area in the horse latitudes towards the poles.

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First option is the correct answer. Tidal flat is a lagoon bed that only emerge at low tide, and hence is not suitable for colonisation by pioneer plants.

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Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Emerald is a gemstone and a variety of the mineral beryl (Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆) colored green by trace amounts of chromium and sometimes vanadium.

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The first bird is believed to have appeared on the surface of the earth 150 million years ago.