World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Chukchi Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea.

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Sometimes Venus appears in the eastern sky before sunrise. Sometimes it appears in the western sky just after sunset. Therefore it is often called a morning or an evening star, although it is not a star.

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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 question is related to the centrifugal forces, which represent the effects of inertia that arise in connection with rotation and which are experienced as an outward force away from the center of rotation. The impact of this force is maximum at Equator and minimum at Pole.

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Hamada is a type of desert landscape consisting of high, largely barren, hard rocky plateaus with very little sand because this has been removed by deflation. Hamadas are produced by the wind removing the fine products of weathering: an aeolian process known as deflation.

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Storm tracks are the relatively narrow zones in seas and oceans where storms travel driven by the prevailing winds.The Atlantic and Pacific have storm tracks along which most Atlantic or Pacific extratropical cyclones or tropical cyclones travel.

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The diamond-ring basically effect occurs at the beginning and end of totality during a total solar eclipse. As the last bits of sunlight pass through the valleys on the moon’s limb, and the faint corona around the sun is just becoming visible, it looks like a ring with glittering diamonds on it.

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Geomorphology is a branch of geography which deals with the formation, evolution and classification of different landforms on the surface of the Earth.

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A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star which emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Jocelyn Bell discovered the first pulsar in 1967.

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Stellar parallax is a displacement  in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. It  is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.