World Geography MCQs

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

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Earth’s mean radius is determined as the average distance from the physical center to the surface, based on a large number of samples. The value, symbolized rearth, is equal to approximately 6,371,000 meters (6.371 x 106 m). This is roughly 6,371 kilometers (km) or 3,960 statute miles.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
The time at a place is determined by the parallels of longitude.

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

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The process of destruction or dying of fronts is called frontolysis.

✅ The correct answer is option C.
The imaginary axis at which the earth rotates remains inclined at an angle of 661/2 the plane of earth’s orbit.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Richter scale measures the maximum amplitude of seismic waves as they reach seismographs. This scale is expressed with a logarithmic scale. Thus, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale would be 10 times larger than an earthquake that measures 6.0.

✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Rhine river of northern Europe empties intothe North sea.

✅ The correct answer is option A.
Snow, ice, and clouds have high albedos (typically from 0.7 to 0.9) and reflect more energy than they absorb. Earth’s average albedo is about 0.3. In other words, about 30 percent of incoming solar radiation is reflected back into space and 70 percent is absorbed.

✅ The correct answer is option D.
The main watershed of most of the peninsular river lies in the Western Ghats.