Practice MCQ Questions and answers on World Geography-GK

The relative abundance of dissolved salts in seawater in descending order is chlorine, sodium, sulphate, magnesium, calcium, potassium.

There are two planets in our solar system with no natural satellites, Mercury and Venus. Mercury had one artificial satellite named Messenger, but it was intentionally crashed into the surface of Mercury in 2015. Venus on the other hand has one artificial satellite.

The reflectivity of a substance usually expressed as a percentage of the incident radiation reflected is known as it's albedo or reflection coefficient.

Plants of cotton of the following crops are highly sensitive to frost.

Islam is the official religion of Afghanistan and the majority of the population is Muslim (approximately 99.7%). There are some very small residual communities of other faiths, including Christians, Sikhs, Hindus and Baha'i.

The region that has a typical dispersed rural settlement pattern is the Kerala coastal plain.

The reaction between oxygen and another element generally results in the formation of a binary compound known as an oxide. The reaction itself is known as oxidation. For example, the oxidation reaction between oxygen and sodium produces sodium oxide. In many cases, an element may form more than one oxide.

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 progressive wave theory regarding of tides was put forth by William Whewell.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) had its origins on December 8, 1991, when the elected leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (Belorussia) signed an agreement forming a new association to replace the crumbling Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.).