World Geography MCQs

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The right ascension is the equivalent of longitude on the celestial sphere, and it is given in the units of time-hours, minutes and seconds.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Palaeozoic era starts at 570 million years ago and ends at 225 million years ago.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
All of the above

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The subatomic particles arriving from outer space having high energy are called cosmic rays. High-energy particles arriving from outer space are mainly (89%) protons – nuclei of hydrogen, the lightest and most common element in the universe – but they also include nuclei of helium (10%) and heavier nuclei (1%), all the way up to uranium.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The planets that are called superior planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Trenches are formed by subduction, a geophysical process in which two or more of Earth’s tectonic plates converge and the older, denser plate is pushed beneath the lighter plate and deep into the mantle, causing the seafloor and outermost crust (the lithosphere) to bend and form a steep, V-shaped depression.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Pedology (from Greek: pedon, “soil”; and logos, “study”) is the study of soils in their natural environment. It is one of two main branches of soil science, the other being edaphology.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
All of the above

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Outside the tropics, annual receipts of solar radiation generally decrease with increasing latitude. Minimum values occur at the poles. This pattern is primarily the result of Earth-Sun geometric relationships and its effect on the duration and intensity of solar radiation received.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The transverse, longitudinal and surface waves in an earthquake originate from the focus within the body of the earth.