World & Physical Geography MCQs

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Copernicus proposed Helio-centric model. According to this model, sun stands at the center of the universe, and Moon, the Earth, and remaining planets revolve around the sun.

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Pampas are located in South America, covering more than 1,200,000 square kilometers. The Pampas are found in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. The word “pampa” comes from the Quechua word for “plain”. The Pampas are fertile, low-lying grasslands with a temperate climate. They receive 600 to 1,200 mm of precipitation annually. The Pampas are home to roughly 400 species of birds and 100 other species. Grasslands are transitional biomes, meaning they are found between deserts and forests. They cover a quarter of the Earth’s land and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.

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The word ‘planet’ comes from the ancient Greek ἀστήρ πλανήτης (astēr planētēs), meaning “wandering star”. The large number of stars observed in the heavens were classified into fixed stars and wandering stars. Fixed stars were those with respect to which the movement of the celestial bodies were measured. Wandering stars were those whose relative distances with respect to the fixed stars keep changing. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury and Saturn belonged to the latter category. Among these, Jupiter was known as Bright Wandering Star.

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The north atlantic route is the busiest ocean trade. It connects the South America to North America(Panama Canal), Africa to Europe and Europe to Asia (through Gibraltar Strait connecting Mediterranean Sea ).

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Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings of Saturn in 1610 using his telescope. He called them Saturn’s ears.

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The Baltic sea and the north sea are connected by Kiel canal. The Kiel Canal is a 98-kilometre-long freshwater canal in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The Kiel is the world’s busiest man-made waterway for seagoing ships, used by a similar number of ships as on the Panama and Suez canals.

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Nile is considered the Father of African Rivers. It is Stretching for approximately 6,695 km across 10 different countries, the Nile River is the longest river in the world.

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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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The northernmost range is called the Great Himalayas and is also the oldest of all the ranges of Himalayas. The Great Himalayan range is made up of erosion material from the rising Himalaya. Running parallel to this is the Lower Himalayan Range, which has an elevation between 2,000–5,000 m.

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