Geography Test-2 - Defence MCQ

Australia with 2,967,909 square miles (7,686,884 square km) total area, is the smallest Continent.

Yellow river passes through China.

Sunderban National Park is a world heritage site, tiger reserve and biosphere reserve located in the Sunderban delta of West Bengal in India.

The approximate circumference of earth is 40,000 Km.

Mars is the 7th largest planet in our solar system. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the seventh largest. Mars is also referred to as the Red Planet.

In India, tropical evergreen forests are found in the western slopes of the Western Ghats in States such as Kerala and Karnataka.

Karman line, lies at an altitude of 100 km above Earth's sea level and commonly represents the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.

Bhutan is called Druk Yul - Land of Thunder Dragon. Because of the violent and large thunderstorms that whip down through the valleys from the Himalayas, Bhutan is known as the Land of Thunder Dragon.

A line drawn on a weather map connecting points that receive equal amounts of precipitation (rainfall, snow etc) during a given period of time is called Isohyets.

Five Indian state share their boundaries with Nepal. The Indian states that touch the border with Nepal are Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal and Sikkim

Rajasthan has the largest share of wasteland in India with an area of 84,929 sq.km in the wasteland.

Saddle Peak is the highest point of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Nepal, Bhutan, and Afghanistan are India’s neighboring landlocked countries. Myanmar is not a landlocked country.

The northern plain of India has been formed by the interplay of three main rivers of the Northern Plains are the Indus, Ganga, and the Brahmaputra.

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organization involving a group of countries in South Asia and South East Asia. These are Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan, and Nepal. The BIMSTEC states are among the countries dependent on the Bay of Bengal.

The group of stars arranged in a definite pattern is called a constellation. In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere.

Neptune takes the longest time to go around the sun. Neptune orbits the Sun at an average distance of 4.5 billion km. Like all the planets in the Solar System, Neptune follows an elliptical path around the Sun, varying its distance to the Sun at different points along its orbit.

To determine the maximum distance of the Earth from the sun, we need to consider the concept of aphelion, which is the point in the Earth's orbit where it is farthest from the sun.
The correct option is A: July 4th. Here's the explanation:
1. Aphelion: Aphelion is the point in the Earth's orbit where it is farthest from the sun.
2. Earth's elliptical orbit: The Earth's orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. This means that the distance between the Earth and the sun varies throughout the year.
3. July 4th: On July 4th, the Earth is at its maximum distance from the sun, which is approximately 94.5 million miles (152.1 million kilometers).
4. Seasonal variation: The Earth's distance from the sun affects the intensity of sunlight received, and this variation is one of the reasons for the changing seasons on Earth.
5. Other dates: December 22nd (option B) is the winter solstice and marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, but it is not the maximum distance from the sun. September 22nd (option C) is the autumnal equinox, and January 3rd (option D) is not a significant date in terms of the Earth's distance from the sun.
Therefore, the correct answer is option A: July 4th.

The earth was nearly covered with snow and ice in the Pleistocene Era. The Pleistocene is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world’s recent period of repeated glaciations.

An oxbow lake is a feature formed by River erosion in the mature stage. An ox-bow is a crescentshaped lake lying alongside a winding river. The ox-bow lake is created over time as erosion and deposits of soil change the river’s course.