laboursonline – MCQs, Mock Tests | Geography World Geography Questions (MCQs) for UPSC, State PCS and SSC Examinations Part1

Which of the following was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky during the second millennium BC?

1. Mars
2. Venus
3. Jupiter
4. Saturn

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following disciplines attempts spatial synthesis?

1. History
2. Geography
3. Polity
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is the value of Hubble constant?

1. 73 kilometers per second per mega parsec
2. 75 kilometers per second per mega parsec
3. 77 kilometers per second per mega parsec
4. 69 kilometers per second per mega parsec

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following forms outermost solid part of the earth?

1. Core
2. Crust
3. Mantle
4. Magma

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The �Amos� series of satellites belongs to which among the following countries?

1. India
2. USA
3. Israel
4. China

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Old Faithful� Geyser is located in which among the following countries?

1. Canada
2. US
3. Spain
4. Mexico

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following countries is known as �Land of Thousand Lakes�?

1. Norway
2. Finland
3. Sweden
4. Estonia

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Forest Research Institute of India is located in?

1. Ghaziabad
2. Dehradun
3. Delhi
4. Lucknow

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the � Sidereal Month � in Hours Minutes and Seconds?

1. 27 days 7 hours and 11.6 seconds
2. 27 days 8 hours and 11.6 seconds
3. 27 days 9 hours and 11.6 seconds
4. 27 days 11 hours and 11.6 seconds

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following gas is abundant on atmosphere of Mars ?

1. Carbon Dioxide
2. Nitrogen
3. Argon
4. Carbon Monoxide

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In which of the following oceans world�s largest island is located?.

1. Atlantic
2. Arctic
3. Pacific
4. Indian

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which type of rocks the Fossil Fuel can be found?

1. Igneous
2. Sedimenatry
3. Metamorphic
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which of the following direction we can find the evening star?

1. East
2. West
3. North
4. South

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following African country has been traditionally a center of ethnic conflicts between Hutus & Tutsi ethnic groups?15.

1. Tanzania
2. Nigeria
3. Rwanda
4. Sudan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following country is the world�s leading producer of synthetic industrial diamond?16.

1. United states
2. Congo
3. China
4. South Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 3

For which of the following commodity / mineral the Shenshi and shanshi regions of China are world famous?

1. Iron
2. Coal
3. Diamond
4. Petroleum

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following country is the largest producer of Uranium?

1. Australia
2. Canada
3. Russia
4. France

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Archipelago Sea is the part of which sea?Arabian Sea

1. Arabian Sea
2. Mediterranean Sea
3. Baltic Sea
4. Sea of Japan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is the largest island of Indonesia?

1. Java
2. Sulawesi
3. Sumatra
4. Bali

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following is not the island of Indonesia?

1. Sumatra
2. Java
3. Sulavesi
4. Greenland

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who discovered the first pulsar ?

1. Edwin Hubble
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Fred Hoyle
4. Jocelyn Bell

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is a large cluster of stars called?

1. Constellation
2. Nebula
3. Quasar
4. Galaxy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which among the following Galaxies is also known as Messier 31?

1. Milky Way galaxy
2. Pinwheel galaxy
3. Andromeda galaxy
4. Sombrebo galaxy

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the name of the first white dwarf to be discovered?

1. Eridani B
2. Betelgeuse
3. Procyon B
4. Sirius B

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The stars are mostly composed of which elements?

1. Hydrogen and Nitrogen
2. Hydrogen and Helium
3. Hydrogen and oxygen
4. Nitrogen and Helium

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the approximate distance between the Earth and the Sun ?

1. 350 million km
2. 100 million km
3. 150 million km
4. 250 million km

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following planet and its associated weather system is not correctly matched?28.

1. The Great Red Spot � Saturn
2. Dust Storms � Mars
3. Hurricanes � Earth
4. Holes in atmosphere � Neptune

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Big Splat theory is related to the origin of which among the following?

1. Moon
2. Sun
3. Volcanoes
4. Universe

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not an alternative name for Moon?

1. Gaia
2. Luna
3. Selene
4. Cynthian

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not an Eon?

1. Archean
2. Hadean
3. Palaeozoic
4. Proterozoic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is a black sand beach in India?

1. Tithal Beach
2. Radhanagar Beach
3. Varkala Beach
4. Varca Beach

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which cosmologist is not associated with the Steady State theory of the universe?33.

1. Hermann Bondi
2. Thomas Chamberlin
3. Sir Fred Hoyle
4. Thomas Gold

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter?

1. Pioneer 10
2. Galileo
3. InSight
4. New Horizons

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is the thinnest layer among all the layers of the Earth?

1. Crust
2. Mantle
3. Inner core
4. Outer core

✅ Correct Answer: 1

On which of the following does the seismic wave velocity depend?

1. Density of the rock
2. Elasticity of the rock
3. Shape of the rock
4. Both 1 and 2

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did the Supercontinent Pangaea begin to break up?

1. 200 million years ago
2. 50 million years ago
3. 2000 million years ago
4. 500 million years ago

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the word �Pangaea� mean?

1. All Earth
2. All Ocean
3. All Mountains
4. All Volcanoes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not a characteristic of shield volcano?

1. Hottest Lava
2. Highly Fluid
3. Light colored lava
4. Poor in silica

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with water called?

1. Oxidation
2. Hydrolysis
3. Erosion
4. Carbonation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the reduction in the size of the wind blown particles due to their mutual friction called?

1. Abrasion
2. Attrition
3. Deflation
4. Deposition

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which type of rocks is/are commonly affected by hydrolysis?

1. Igneous
2. Sedimentary
3. Metamorphic
4. Both 2 & 3

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What type of landform is Gaur?

1. Fluvial
2. Glacial
3. Aeolian
4. Karst

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are Arete like features in Alps described as?

1. Lahars
2. Grat
3. Hart
4. Horns

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following is not an example of a landform Butte?

1. Devil�s Tower
2. Sugarloaf mountain
3. Pawnee Buttes
4. Tamanrasset Province

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil called?

1. Alvars
2. Lavakas
3. Lahars
4. Hoodoo

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is a step-like landform?

1. Ridges
2. Terraces
3. Hoodoos
4. Benches

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a valley with steeper slope on one side called?

1. Asymmetric valley
2. Tor
3. Mesa
4. Vale

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What are Ox bow lakes created by Rio Grande called?

1. Resacas
2. Loo
3. Cuesta
4. Backswamp

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What type of a landform is Ejecta blanket?

1. Fluvial landform
2. Impact landform
3. Karst landform
4. Lacustrine landform

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which caves are formed along the coasts of the world?

1. Primary caves
2. Littoral caves
3. Corrasional caves
4. Glacier caves

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky during the second millennium BC?

1. Mars
2. Venus
3. Jupiter
4. Saturn

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following disciplines attempts spatial synthesis?

1. History
2. Geography
3. Polity
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is the value of Hubble constant?

1. 73 kilometers per second per mega parsec
2. 75 kilometers per second per mega parsec
3. 77 kilometers per second per mega parsec
4. 69 kilometers per second per mega parsec

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following forms outermost solid part of the earth?

1. Core
2. Crust
3. Mantle
4. Magma

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The �Amos� series of satellites belongs to which among the following countries?

1. India
2. USA
3. Israel
4. China

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Old Faithful� Geyser is located in which among the following countries?

1. Canada
2. US
3. Spain
4. Mexico

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following countries is known as �Land of Thousand Lakes�?

1. Norway
2. Finland
3. Sweden
4. Estonia

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Forest Research Institute of India is located in?

1. Ghaziabad
2. Dehradun
3. Delhi
4. Lucknow

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the � Sidereal Month � in Hours Minutes and Seconds?

1. 27 days 7 hours and 11.6 seconds
2. 27 days 8 hours and 11.6 seconds
3. 27 days 9 hours and 11.6 seconds
4. 27 days 11 hours and 11.6 seconds

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following gas is abundant on atmosphere of Mars ?

1. Carbon Dioxide
2. Nitrogen
3. Argon
4. Carbon Monoxide

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In which of the following oceans world�s largest island is located?.

1. Atlantic
2. Arctic
3. Pacific
4. Indian

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which type of rocks the Fossil Fuel can be found?

1. Igneous
2. Sedimenatry
3. Metamorphic
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In which of the following direction we can find the evening star?

1. East
2. West
3. North
4. South

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following African country has been traditionally a center of ethnic conflicts between Hutus & Tutsi ethnic groups?15.

1. Tanzania
2. Nigeria
3. Rwanda
4. Sudan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following country is the world�s leading producer of synthetic industrial diamond?16.

1. United states
2. Congo
3. China
4. South Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 3

For which of the following commodity / mineral the Shenshi and shanshi regions of China are world famous?

1. Iron
2. Coal
3. Diamond
4. Petroleum

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following country is the largest producer of Uranium?

1. Australia
2. Canada
3. Russia
4. France

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The Archipelago Sea is the part of which sea?Arabian Sea

1. Arabian Sea
2. Mediterranean Sea
3. Baltic Sea
4. Sea of Japan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is the largest island of Indonesia?

1. Java
2. Sulawesi
3. Sumatra
4. Bali

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following is not the island of Indonesia?

1. Sumatra
2. Java
3. Sulavesi
4. Greenland

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who discovered the first pulsar ?

1. Edwin Hubble
2. Galileo Galilei
3. Fred Hoyle
4. Jocelyn Bell

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is a large cluster of stars called?

1. Constellation
2. Nebula
3. Quasar
4. Galaxy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which among the following Galaxies is also known as Messier 31?

1. Milky Way galaxy
2. Pinwheel galaxy
3. Andromeda galaxy
4. Sombrebo galaxy

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the name of the first white dwarf to be discovered?

1. Eridani B
2. Betelgeuse
3. Procyon B
4. Sirius B

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The stars are mostly composed of which elements?

1. Hydrogen and Nitrogen
2. Hydrogen and Helium
3. Hydrogen and oxygen
4. Nitrogen and Helium

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the approximate distance between the Earth and the Sun ?

1. 350 million km
2. 100 million km
3. 150 million km
4. 250 million km

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following planet and its associated weather system is not correctly matched?28.

1. The Great Red Spot � Saturn
2. Dust Storms � Mars
3. Hurricanes � Earth
4. Holes in atmosphere � Neptune

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Big Splat theory is related to the origin of which among the following?

1. Moon
2. Sun
3. Volcanoes
4. Universe

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not an alternative name for Moon?

1. Gaia
2. Luna
3. Selene
4. Cynthian

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not an Eon?

1. Archean
2. Hadean
3. Palaeozoic
4. Proterozoic

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is a black sand beach in India?

1. Tithal Beach
2. Radhanagar Beach
3. Varkala Beach
4. Varca Beach

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which cosmologist is not associated with the Steady State theory of the universe?33.

1. Hermann Bondi
2. Thomas Chamberlin
3. Sir Fred Hoyle
4. Thomas Gold

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter?

1. Pioneer 10
2. Galileo
3. InSight
4. New Horizons

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which is the thinnest layer among all the layers of the Earth?

1. Crust
2. Mantle
3. Inner core
4. Outer core

✅ Correct Answer: 1

On which of the following does the seismic wave velocity depend?

1. Density of the rock
2. Elasticity of the rock
3. Shape of the rock
4. Both 1 and 2

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did the Supercontinent Pangaea begin to break up?

1. 200 million years ago
2. 50 million years ago
3. 2000 million years ago
4. 500 million years ago

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What does the word �Pangaea� mean?

1. All Earth
2. All Ocean
3. All Mountains
4. All Volcanoes

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not a characteristic of shield volcano?

1. Hottest Lava
2. Highly Fluid
3. Light colored lava
4. Poor in silica

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is decomposition of a chemical compound by reaction with water called?

1. Oxidation
2. Hydrolysis
3. Erosion
4. Carbonation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the reduction in the size of the wind blown particles due to their mutual friction called?

1. Abrasion
2. Attrition
3. Deflation
4. Deposition

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which type of rocks is/are commonly affected by hydrolysis?

1. Igneous
2. Sedimentary
3. Metamorphic
4. Both 2 & 3

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What type of landform is Gaur?

1. Fluvial
2. Glacial
3. Aeolian
4. Karst

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are Arete like features in Alps described as?

1. Lahars
2. Grat
3. Hart
4. Horns

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following is not an example of a landform Butte?

1. Devil�s Tower
2. Sugarloaf mountain
3. Pawnee Buttes
4. Tamanrasset Province

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil called?

1. Alvars
2. Lavakas
3. Lahars
4. Hoodoo

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is a step-like landform?

1. Ridges
2. Terraces
3. Hoodoos
4. Benches

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a valley with steeper slope on one side called?

1. Asymmetric valley
2. Tor
3. Mesa
4. Vale

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What are Ox bow lakes created by Rio Grande called?

1. Resacas
2. Loo
3. Cuesta
4. Backswamp

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What type of a landform is Ejecta blanket?

1. Fluvial landform
2. Impact landform
3. Karst landform
4. Lacustrine landform

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which caves are formed along the coasts of the world?

1. Primary caves
2. Littoral caves
3. Corrasional caves
4. Glacier caves

✅ Correct Answer: 2