This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The crust and the uppermost mantle make up the solid layer of hard rock called the A) Mesosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Asthenosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lithosphere. 2. Which layer is made of molten rock? A) Mantle. B) Inner core. C) Crust. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mantle. 3. The mostly solid, rocky part of the Earth A) Atmosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Hydrosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geosphere. 4. Which layer of Earth is the source of lava that erupts from volcanoes? A) Outer core. B) Asthenosphere. C) Inner core. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere. 5. The theory of continental drift is most associated with which scientist? A) Charles Darwin. B) Albert Einstein. C) Alfred Wegener. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alfred Wegener. 6. Volcanoes and mountains are created at ..... A) Divergent boundaries. B) Convergent boundaries. C) Transform boundaries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergent boundaries. 7. What type of rock is formed when magma cools and hardens below the Earth's surface or after a volcano erupts ..... A) Igneous. B) Sedimentary. C) Fossils. D) Metamorphic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Igneous. 8. The layer of the earth's atmosphere where rain occurs is ..... A) Stratosphere layer. B) Exosphere layer. C) Troposphere layer. D) Thermosphere layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere layer. 9. When rock particles settle at the bottom of the ocean, they can continue to be buried by other particles. The process of cementation of these particles forms A) Igneous rock. B) Metamorphic rock. C) Molten rock. D) Sedimentary rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedimentary rock. 10. Which of the following layers contains most of the Earth's mass? A) The oceanic crust. B) The mantle. C) The continental crust. D) The core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mantle. 11. Which layer of Earth is made up of tectonic plates? A) Outer core. B) Asthenosphere. C) Inner core. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithosphere. 12. Which is an example of sea-floor spreading? A) Mid-Atlantic Ridge. B) San Andreas Fault. C) Himalayan Mountains. D) Kilauea Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 13. By carefully analyzing pages and pages of written data (since there were no computers at the time), Inge Lehmanndetermined A) The Earth's inner core is actually liquid, surrounded by a solid outer core. B) The Earth's inner mantle is actually solid, surrounded by a liquid crust. C) The Earth's inner core is actually solid, surrounded by a liquid outer core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Earth's inner core is actually solid, surrounded by a liquid outer core. 14. An artificial satellite orbits the Earth at a height of 500 km. What is the approximate value of the radius of the satellite's orbit? A) A 3000 km. B) D 26 500 km. C) C 13 500 km. D) B 7000 km. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B 7000 km. 15. What is the definition of Core? A) Earth's thin outermost layer is solid rock. B) This thick layer is between the crust and the other core. C) Formed mostly of molten metal, this is Earth's only liquid layer. D) The innermost of Earth's layers, extends to the center of the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The innermost of Earth's layers, extends to the center of the Earth. 16. One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer A) Shell. B) Outer layer. C) Plate. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plate. 17. Which type of plate boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other? A) Transform plate boundary. B) Subduction plate boundary. C) Convergent plate boundary. D) Divergent plate boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Divergent plate boundary. 18. Which layers of the earth make up the lithosphere? A) Upper mantle and crust. B) Continental and oceanic crust. C) Mantle, crust, outer core. D) Inner core and outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upper mantle and crust. 19. The earth's surface is broken into large pieces called ..... A) Continents. B) Plates. C) Tectonic Plates. D) Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tectonic Plates. 20. Which layer of the Earth is responsible for generating the magnetic field? A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) Inner core. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer core. 21. What is the coolest layer of the Earth? A) Inner core. B) Lithosphere. C) Mantle. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crust. 22. What layer of the mantle has convection currents? A) Lithosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere. 23. What is the correct order of the earth's layers from the outermost to the innermost? A) Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core. B) Outer Core, Inner Core, Crust, Mantle. C) Mantle, Crust, Inner Core, Outer Core. D) Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, Inner Core. 24. In a convection current, the substance is warmed up by a heat source, and then ..... A) Rises. B) Stays the same. C) Evaporates. D) Sinks. E) Freezes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rises. 25. Another word for continental is A) Land. B) Ocean. C) Mantle. D) Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land. 26. Mantle ..... is the ..... motion of the earth's mantle caused by currents carrying heat from the earth's ..... to the earth's ..... A) Convection, slow, interior, surface. B) Conduction, latitudinal, exterior, orbit. C) Radiation, slow, interior, core. D) Convection, rapid, interior, surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convection, slow, interior, surface. 27. What word describes the shape of a geographic area? A) Mountain. B) Topography. C) Elevation. D) Relief. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Topography. 28. What process makes the tectonic plates move? A) Fold mountains. B) Sea floor spreading. C) Subduction. D) Convection currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection currents. 29. What type of rock makes up the crust under the ocean? A) Granite. B) Quartz. C) Obsidian. D) Basalt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Basalt. 30. What type of heat transfer in found in Earth"s asthenosphere? A) Conduction. B) I don't know. C) Radiation. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection. 31. Which layer contains convection currents that causes the tectonic plates of the lithosphere to move? A) Lithosphere. B) Convergensphere. C) Diversphere. D) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asthenosphere. 32. The Ocean crust is composed mainly of materials rich in A) Nickel and iron. B) Silica and aluminium. C) Silica and magnesium. D) Iron and magnesium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Silica and magnesium. 33. It is as hot as the surface of the Sun A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Core. 34. What is the order of the layers? A) Inner core, lithosphere, Mesosphere, outer core, Asthenosphere. B) Asthenosphere, lithosphere, Mesosphere, outer core, inner core. C) Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, outer core, inner core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere, Asthenosphere, Mesosphere, outer core, inner core. 35. Minerals have ..... structures. A) Round. B) Crystal. C) Water. D) Streak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crystal. 36. What layer of the Earth do we live on? A) Outer Core. B) Mantle. C) Inner Core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crust. 37. It is the deepest manmade hole on earth. A) Bingham Canyon Mine. B) Mariana trench. C) Canyon Diablo Crater. D) Kola Superdeep Borehole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kola Superdeep Borehole. 38. What are Metamorphic rocks? A) Rocks formed from the cooling of magma. B) Rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure. C) Rocks formed from the accumulation of sediments. D) Rocks that are always melted during formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rocks that have been changed by heat and pressure. 39. Processes that form and change rocks- A) Rock cycle. B) Water cycle. C) Life cycle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rock cycle. 40. Which of the following occurs because of convection currents? A) Pressure in the crust increases. B) Pressure in the crust decreases. C) The mantle increases in size. D) Tectonic plates on the crust move. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tectonic plates on the crust move. 41. Earth lithosphere broken into many large and small slabs of rock. A) Convection currents. B) Tectonic Plates. C) Convection. D) Mid-ocean ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tectonic Plates. 42. What is the name of the thin layer of solid rock that makes up the outermost part of Earth? A) Biosphere. B) Crust. C) Core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 43. Tectonic processes mean Landform-building processes like faulting, folding, etc, caused by the movement of ..... A) Lava. B) Atmospheric plates. C) Mantle. D) Lithospheric plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithospheric plates. 44. The Earth is the only planet in the solar system that supports life. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. What had an important role in the formation of our solar system? A) Animals. B) Sun. C) Gravity. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravity. 46. Rock that forms from magma or lava is ..... A) Igneous rock. B) Sedimentary rock. C) Metamorphic rock. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Igneous rock. 47. What is the study of earthquakes called? A) Seismology. B) Geology. C) Meteorology. D) Volcanology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismology. 48. What are the 3 main layers of Earth's interior? A) Core, shell, rock. B) Mantle, shell, yold. C) Mantle, core, shell. D) Core, crust, mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Core, crust, mantle. 49. What is an underground channel that formed when surface lava hardened before the lava underneath it? A) Lava tunnel. B) Fault. C) Moho. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava tunnel. 50. What do earthquake waves have in common with other waves? A) They have the same wavelength as radio waves. B) They travel at the same speed as light waves. C) They carry the same amount of energy as sound waves. D) They bend when they travel through different materials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They bend when they travel through different materials. 51. Which of the following occurs at constructive plate margins (where plates are moving apart) A) Slab pull. B) Ridge push. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ridge push. 52. Scientists think that convection currents flow in Earth's A) Inner core. B) Mantle. C) Lithosphere. D) Continents. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 53. Which is an example of a convergent (continental to continental) boundary? A) Himalayan Mountains. B) San Andreas Fault. C) Mid-Atlantic Ridge. D) Kilauea Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Himalayan Mountains. 54. Which layer of the Earth remains solid despite extreme heat due to immense pressure at the center of the Earth? A) Outer Core. B) Crust. C) Inner Core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner Core. 55. Sial forms the continents A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 56. Lava that is still deep inside the earth is called ..... A) Magma. B) Earthquake. C) Lava. D) Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magma. 57. Which layer of the Earth is composed of semi-fluid rock and is responsible for generating the Earth's magnetic field? A) Crust. B) Upper mantle. C) Inner core. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer core. 58. The San Andreas Fault in CA is an example of this type of plate boundary A) Divergent-dividing. B) Convergent-colliding. C) Transform-sliding. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transform-sliding. 59. Earth's outer core is made of mostly iron and nickel. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 60. Which layer of the Earth is solid and primarily composed of iron and nickel? A) Lithosphere. B) Inner Core. C) Mantle. D) Outer Core. 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