World Geography Mixed Practice — MCQs with Answers (Set 1)

None of the pairs is correct. Mallorca is in Spain, Normandy is in France, and Sardinia is in Italy.

South Africa shares land borders with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Lesotho. Zambia lies further north and does not directly border South Africa.

Raipur, in the heart of Chhattisgarh’s monsoon belt, receives the highest average annual rainfall (around 1,300-1,500 mm) among these four stations, well ahead of Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Delhi.

Hiroshima lies on Honshu, Japan’s largest and most populous island. Nagasaki lies on Kyushu, the southwesternmost of Japan’s main islands.

A GIS is commonly described as having five core components: hardware, software, data, people, and methods. Data, hardware, software and people are all genuine GIS components, so all four are correct.

Raster data uses a simple grid of cells, which matches naturally with pixel-based remote sensing imagery. The cell size, relative to the area covered, determines the raster’s resolution: smaller cells give finer, higher resolution detail. Both statements are correct.

Both statements describe a great circle correctly. It is the largest circle possible on a sphere’s surface, and since its plane must pass through the sphere’s centre, it always splits the Earth into two equal hemispheres.

The correct answer is both 1 and 2. Rain over the Red Sea averages only about 6 cm a year. No permanent river reaches it. Only dry wadis carry brief flash floods. Memory hook: little rain, no rivers.

Correct: Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Figures for 2023/24 show Côte d’Ivoire at 1,740 thousand tonnes and Ghana at 480 thousand tonnes. The world total was 4,382 thousand tonnes. Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Ecuador are the three largest producers.

The correct answer is I, II and III, as per the official key. Statement III is supported by geology. Studies of Gondwana fossils and sediments show similar formations in Africa, South America, Antarctica, Australia and Madagascar. Statements I and II rest on the official key. Memory hook: all three point to one old landmass.

The Strait of Bonifacio, about 11 km wide, separates Sardinia from Corsica. Sardinia is Italian and Corsica is French.

Mallorca is the largest Balearic island. Its main city, Palma, is the capital of the Balearic Islands.

Venezuela holds about 303 billion barrels, mostly heavy oil in the Orinoco belt. The United States pumps the most oil.

Cyprus is an island in the Mediterranean, south of Turkey. Reference works list its island among the lands of the Levant.

The Levant is the eastern Mediterranean and the lands it borders. Syria, Lebanon and Israel sit on that shore.

This is the UPSC CSP 2015 description of the monsoon day. Rain comes with thunder and lightning but soon ends.

At night the wind often reverses and blows from the land to the water. This is called a land breeze.

Am is tropical monsoonal, with a short dry season and heavy monsoonal rains in other months. Aw is tropical savanna.

In summer the winds blow from the ocean towards the land and bring heavy rain. In winter they reverse.

Iran lies west of Afghanistan, and the border is 921 km long. Pakistan lies east and south.

The Amu Darya runs 2,620 km and is shared by these four countries. The Helmand is shared only with Iran.

China’s border with Afghanistan is only 91 km, through the Wakhan Corridor. Uzbekistan’s is 144 km.

Tajikistan’s border is 1,357 km. Turkmenistan’s is 804 km, Uzbekistan’s is 144 km, and Kyrgyzstan has none.

Much of Venezuela’s oil is heavy and hard to extract. Saudi oil flows up under its own pressure.

The Nile begins in the rivers flowing into Lake Victoria. The lake is shared by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.