Test: General Physical Geography- 1 - Class 5 MCQ

A Western Disturbance is an extratropical storm originating in the Mediterranean region that brings sudden winter rain to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent. It is a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by the westerlies. The moisture in these storms usually originates over the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Kandla is a tidal port which caters to the convenient handling of exports and imports of highly productive granary and industrial belt stretching across the states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, and Gujarat. Thus, option (A) is correct.

A mountain or upland that separates two drainage basins is called as water divide. Ambala is water divide of Ganga and Indus rivers.

Do you mean first form of the verb ?
Then , it is drive.

Selenium, silicon and gallium all are use for fabricating solar cells. They convert light energy into electrical energy.

Mediterranean Sea connected to the Red Sea via. Suez Canal

According to Laplace the solar system was originally a disc shaped rotating Nebulae. A nebula is an enormous cloud of dust and gas occupying the space between stars and acting as a nursery for new stars.

Lithosphere is the rigid, rocky outer layer of the earth, consisting of the crust and the solid outermost layer of the upper mantle. It extends to a depth of about 100 km. It is broken into about a dozen separate, rigid blocks, or plates. The lithosphere is underlain by the asthenosphere which is the weaker, hotter, and deeper part of the upper mantle.

The exosphere is the uppermost region of Earth's atmosphere as it gradually fades into the vacuum of space. It starts at an altitude of about 500 km and goes out to about 10,000 km. The most abundantly found gas in exosphere is hydrogen with some helium, carbon dioxide, and atomic oxygen near its base.

A stalactite is an icicle-shaped formation that hangs from the ceiling of a cave, and is produced by precipitation of minerals from water dripping through the cave ceiling.
A stalagmite is an upward-growing mound of mineral deposits that have precipitated from water dripping onto the floor of a cave.
If stalactites grow long enough to connect with stalagmites on the floor, they form a column.