World Geography MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option C.
both (a) and (b)

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Pedogenesis (from the Greek pedo-, or pedon, meaning ‘soil, earth,’ and genesis, meaning ‘origin, birth’) (also termed soil development, soil evolution, soil formation, and soil genesis) is the process of soil formation as regulated by the effects of place, environment, and history.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
A measurement of the sidereal day is made by noting the time at which a particular star passes the celestial meridian (i.e. directly overhead) on two sucessive nights. On Earth, a sidereal day lasts for 23 hours 56 minutes 4.091 seconds, which is slightly shorter than the solar day measured from noon to noon.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The metamorphism which involves the chemical replacement of elements in rock minerals when gases and liquids permute into bedrock is called metasomatic metamorphism.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Pre-Cambrian era is the longest era of the classification of the history of earth.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The region that has a typical dispersed rural settlement pattern is the Kerala coastal plain.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The Jordan River, approximately 186 miles (300 km) in length, meanders south, draining the waters of Lake Tiberias (better known as the Sea of Galilee), the Yarmūk River, and the valley streams of both plateaus into the Dead Sea, which occupies the central area.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The study of day-to-day variations in weather called is called meteorology.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The magnetosphere becomes unstable during the magnetic storms during a period of main phase.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The longest river in the Common wealth of independent states is the Volga river.