World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Godavaya is an ancient port trade site on southern coast of Sri Lanka.

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New Moore Island was known as New Moore Island in India and South Talpatti Island in Bangladesh. It was an uninhabited island which emerged in the Bay of Bengal in the aftermath of the Bhola cyclone in 1970. It had been created by the delta currents. It was located south of the Haribhanga river. Now it has disappeared due to rising sea levels.

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Tropical cyclones originate in the doldrums near the equator, about 10° away from it.

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The term “cosmic rays” was coined by the Austrian physicist Victor Francis Hess in 1912. Hess was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays.

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that travel through space and reach the Earth’s atmosphere. They are believed to be made up of protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei, and they can have energies that are millions or billions of times greater than those of particles produced by particle accelerators on Earth.

Hess discovered cosmic rays while conducting experiments in which he flew high-altitude balloon flights to measure the radiation levels at different altitudes. He found that the radiation levels increased with altitude, leading him to conclude that the radiation was coming from outer space and not from the Earth’s surface. He named these high-energy particles “cosmic rays” because they seemed to be coming from the cosmos.

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Shimla is the place among the options where water boils at low temperature. At higher altitudes, air pressure is lower. When atmospheric pressure is lower, such as at a higher altitude, it takes less energy to bring water to the boiling point. Less energy means less heat, which means water will boil at a lower temperature at a higher altitude.

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India is currently the world’s largest rice exporter with US$ 5.5 Billion. India’s rice exports constitutes about 26.3% of total rice exports in the world

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Titan is the largest moon of Saturn and the second-largest natural satellite in the Solar System. It is the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere. Titan is the sixth gravitationally rounded moon from Saturn. Frequently described as a planet-like moon, Titan is 50% larger than Earth’s moon and 80% more massive.

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The Coral Triangle is also called the “Amazon of the Seas”. It is a triangular area of the tropical marine waters of Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste. It is a global centre of marine Biodiversity.

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Tithal Beach is a black sand beach. It is situated in Valsad district of Gujarat. It lies on the coast of Arabian Sea. It is known for its brownish black color soil.

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The Isthmus of Cantanzaro separates the waterbodies of the Lonian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is a part of Italian Peninsula lying between the Calabrian Apennine Mountains and the Calabrian Serre.