World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Sirius, also known as the Dog Star, is the brightest star visible from Earth’s night sky. It is part of the constellation Canis Major – the “Greater Dog”. As a result of its brilliance, Sirius has been significant in every human culture throughout history.

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Antwerp, located in Belgium, is globally recognized as the diamond trade’s epicenter. This city, rich in art and history, houses about 84 percent of the world’s rough diamonds and 50 percent of cut diamonds. It has over 1,500 firms dealing specifically in diamonds, making it the world’s unrivaled diamond trading hub. The Antwerp province’s diamond district also houses four of the world’s 30 diamond bourses, avenues where legally certified diamonds are traded.

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Venus is the slowest moving planet in the solar system. Venus has a rotational velocity of just 6.5 km/h compared to Earth’s rational velocity of 1,670 km/h. Due to its slow speed it has not experienced flattening at poles. Mars is also be called “Earth’s Twin” sometimes, but other given features in the question are not for Mars.

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Cartography is the art of making maps on the available reliable information. Oldest known cartographer is “Anaximander” (Greek), He is considered to be the first mapmaker. Extra Info: Cartosat series is a series of Earth observation satellites by India.

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The Galapagos Islands are distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean & are the home for large number of endemic species. They were studied by Charles Darwin & it led to the inception of Darwin’s theory of Evolution by means of natural selection.

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The Gulf of Mexico is the largest gulf in the world. It’s an extension of the Atlantic Ocean and is bracketed by Mexico to the west, south, and the South-Eastern United States to the north. As a basin, it spans an area of about 615,000 square miles (1.6 million square kilometers). It has rich biodiversity and is important for shipping and oil exploration.

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The Isthmus of Chignecto is located in the continent of America. It connects the Nova Scotia peninsula with North America. It separates the Chignecto Bay from Baie Verte, a sub-basin of Northumberland Strait which is an arm of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

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The planets that are present at a distance greater than the distance of the Earth from the sun are called as superior planets. Superior planets include – Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

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Exfoliation is a process in which sheets of rocks break away and are exposed along the fractures. Exfoliation due to pressure release is also called as sheeting.

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Inselbergs are residual hills in the pedeplain. It is also called as a bornhart. Inselbergs generally have a dome-like structure.