This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The thickest layer of Earth A) Core. B) Mantle. C) Crust. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 2. Which sphere supports living things? A) Hydrosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biosphere. 3. What is the most external layer of the Earth? A) Tectonic plates. B) Core. C) Mantle. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crust. 4. Fill in the blank:The Earth's core is made of ..... and iron. A) Aluminium. B) Silicon. C) Calcium. D) Nickel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nickel. 5. Which layer of the earth has the lowest temperature? A) Crust. B) Inner Core. C) Outer Core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust. 6. What layer of geosphere do humans, the biosphere, interact with? A) Crust. B) Outer Core. C) Mantle. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust. 7. Earthquakes ansd volcanoes occur at the edge of the tectonic plates (where 2 plates meet). What is this zone called? A) Plate rim. B) Plate boundary. C) Plate belt. D) Plate lip. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plate boundary. 8. Mantle convection is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior to the planet's surface. A) Lithosphere. B) Core. C) Convection Currents. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection Currents. 9. What causes the four seasons on Earth? A) Rotation. B) Atmospheric pressure. C) Revolution. D) Tidal forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Revolution. 10. Rock cycle explains: A) The inter-relativity of all 3 types of rocks. B) The process of making Igneous rocks. C) The process of making Sedimentary and Metamorphic rocks. D) The inter-relativity of Igneous and Metamorphic rocks. E) The inter-relativity of Igneous rocks and Sedimentary rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The inter-relativity of all 3 types of rocks. 11. Mountains form from ..... A) Plates sliding past one another. B) Collision of plates. C) Plates moving away from each other. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collision of plates. 12. What does the understanding of Earth's layers enhance our comprehension of? A) Plate tectonics. B) Astronomy. C) Weather patterns. D) Human history. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plate tectonics. 13. The solid layer of Earth that moves over a viscous layer is called the ..... A) Asthenoshere. B) Crust. C) Mantle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 14. What is a large sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption? A) Tsunamis. B) Waves. C) Tides. D) Rip currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tsunamis. 15. Rocks are made-up of? A) Minerals. B) Vitamins. C) Rocks. D) Plants and animals decay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minerals. 16. What is the period between sunrise and full daylight called? A) Dawn. B) Dusk. C) Noon. D) Twilight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dawn. 17. What type of rock will sedimentary rock become at the end of this process?1. Heating and compression2. Melting3. Cooling A) Metamorphic Rock. B) Magma. C) Igneous Rock. D) It hasn't changed and is still Sedimentary Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Igneous Rock. 18. Earthquake zone stretching from Europe to Indonesia A) Alpide belt. B) Indian Ocean belt. C) Circus-Pacific belt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alpide belt. 19. What is the composition of the outermost layer of the Earth, where we live? A) Semi-solid rock. B) Molten metal. C) Solid rocks and minerals. D) Iron and nickel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solid rocks and minerals. 20. Place on the surface of Earth directly above the focus ..... A) Fault. B) Epicenter. C) Volcano. D) Focus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epicenter. 21. The particles of a mineral line up in a pattern that repeats over and over again with a pattern of a mineral's particles that forms a translucent or transparent solid is a: A) Granite. B) Crystal. C) Solid. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crystal. 22. Lava is melted rock beneath the Earth's surface is the mantle. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Earth's plates change position ..... due to plate motion. A) Suddenly. B) Gradually. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gradually. 24. The mantle-core interface is known as ..... A) Mohorovicic Discontinuity. B) Gutnberg Discontinuity. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gutnberg Discontinuity. 25. The upper layer of the Earth which includes continental and ocean crust is called the: A) Stratosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 26. What causes the Earth's seasons? A) A The Earth's rotation on its axis. B) B The Earth's orbit around the Sun in an elliptical shape. C) C The tilt of the Earth's rotational axis away or toward the Sun. D) D The distance between the Earth and the Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C The tilt of the Earth's rotational axis away or toward the Sun. 27. The different layers formed on Earth are due to the differences in ..... of the materials. A) The density. B) The volume. C) The climate. D) The mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The density. 28. Find the density of an object that has a volume of 20 cm3 and a mass of 56 g. A) 2.8 g/cm3. B) 4.3 g/cm3. C) 3.8 g/cm3. D) 1.7 g/cm3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2.8 g/cm3. 29. A rock deep within the Earth experiences extreme temperature and pressure. After a long period of time it becomes which rock? A) Magma. B) Sedimentary. C) Metamorphic. D) Igneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metamorphic. 30. What effect does the rotation of the Earth have on winds and ocean currents? A) Causes them to disappear. B) Causes them to move faster. C) Causes them to be deflected. D) Causes them to reverse direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Causes them to be deflected. 31. Which best describes how ice cores are important to the study of geologic history? A) They follow the Law of Superposition, which gives reasons for extinctions of species. B) They show unconformities, which signal changes in deposition. C) They hold index fossils, which are used to date the different ice cores. D) They contain evidence showing changes in the atmospheric composition over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They contain evidence showing changes in the atmospheric composition over time. 32. Earth's surface features slowly change over time. For example, sharp, jagged mountain ranges become lower and more rounded over time. What factor(s) is responsible for this change in their shape? A) Weathering and erosion. B) Depostion. C) Movement of continents. D) Collisions between continental plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weathering and erosion. 33. ..... is a mineral that contains iron, lead and aluminium A) Ore. B) Gem. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ore. 34. Which sphere would oxygen fall under? A) Hydrosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere. 35. Which of the following is true about seismic waves? A) Seismic waves can travel through surface and inner layers of the earth. B) Seismic waves are waves of energy that radiates during earthquake. C) Seismic waves provide information about the interior structure of the earth. D) ALL OF THE ABOVE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismic waves can travel through surface and inner layers of the earth. 36. What is lava that cools into rock before it hits the ground called? A) Volcanic ash. B) Volcanic block. C) Volcanic bomb. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanic bomb. 37. Which layer is made of liquid iron and nickel? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Outer Core. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outer Core. 38. Choose 2 states where earthquakes are likely to take place-consider where the Ring of Fire is. A) California, Alaska. B) Alaska, Hawaii. C) Hawaii, California. D) Pennsylvania, Texas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) California, Alaska. 39. Which layer is responsible for the earth's magnetism A) Lithosphere. B) Mantle. C) Crust. D) Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Core. 40. What is the name of the layer between the crust and the core? A) Core. B) Mantle. C) Crustal layer. D) Inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 41. Wegner put forth the: A) Ice Age:Continental Drift. B) Theory of plate tectonics. C) Theory of continental drift. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theory of continental drift. 42. Which layer is the last layer; mixture of loose rock and clay; no humus ..... A) Topsoil layer. B) Subsoil layer. C) Rock layer. D) Organic layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rock layer. 43. Which layer(s) of the Earth make up the asthenosphere? A) Part of the mantle. B) Crust, mantle, Core. C) Crust and upper mantle. D) Only the crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Part of the mantle. 44. Which sphere of Earth contains rocks and stones, including all the mountains and land we can see? A) Atmosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 45. The Bahamas and Hawaii is an example of this type of landform. A) Island. B) Archipelago. C) Continent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continent. 46. Which metamorphic roc has layers? A) Folitated. B) Nonfoliated. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonfoliated. 47. Which best describes a convergent zone? A) Plates move together. B) Activity occurs away from a boundary. C) Plates slide past each other. D) Plates move apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plates move together. 48. The asthenosphere is the liquid part of the mantle. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. How have scientists been able to study Earth's mantle? A) Earth's surface heat warms the crust turning it into mantle. B) In some places, Earth's crust thins enough to see mantle. C) In some places, mantle rock pushes to Earth's surface. D) Cooling crust material becomes mantle over time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth's surface heat warms the crust turning it into mantle. 50. Plate movement is caused by ..... A) The moon's gravity. B) The rotation of the Earth. C) Convection current in the mantle. D) Ocean tides. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection current in the mantle. 51. The portion of Earth underneath the crust containing the asthenosphere and the mesosphere is the A) Mantle. B) Tsunami. C) Core. D) Magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mantle. 52. What is the approximate thickness of the Earth's crust? A) 10-50 kilometers. B) 1-5 kilometers. C) 5-70 kilometers. D) 100-200 kilometers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5-70 kilometers. 53. What is the mantle A) Layer that surrounds Earth. Made of continental and oceanic rock. B) Thickest layer made of hot rock. C) Underwater mountain chain. D) Is energy transfer by the movement of a material. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thickest layer made of hot rock. 54. Which word best describes the lower mantle? A) Scalding hot. B) Lukewarm. C) Molten lava. D) Cool. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scalding hot. 55. What type of rock is formed when sediment builds up and presses on lower layers of sediment ..... A) Fossils. B) Igneous. C) Metamorphic. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedimentary. 56. The inner core of the earth is thought to be? A) Gas. B) Solid. C) Plasma. D) Liquid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solid. 57. Which layer of Earth is liquid metal? A) Inner Core. B) Outer Core. C) Asthenosphere. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outer Core. 58. What part of Earth makes Earth's plates? A) Hydrosphere. B) Core. C) Atmosphere. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lithosphere. 59. Which layer of Earth is primarily responsible for generating the planet's magnetic field? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Inner Core. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer Core. 60. What is the rigid outer layer of the Earth called? A) Lithosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Core. D) Mantle. 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