This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is not a volcanic mountain? A) Mt. Etna. B) Mt. Kilimanjaro. C) Mt. Kilauea. D) Mt. Andes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mt. Andes. 2. Roughly how fast to the Earth's tectonic plates move? A) A few centimetres a year. B) A few metres a year. C) A few kilometres a year. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A few centimetres a year. 3. What is the time taken by the Earth to complete one revolution around the sun? A) 365.25 days. B) 366 days. C) 364 days. D) 365 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 365.25 days. 4. Mountains are formed at this type of plate boundary, specifically the Himalayas and Appalachians A) Transform. B) Divergent. C) Convergent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convergent. 5. Which of these is an example of physical component? A) Air. B) Animals. C) Microorganisma. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air. 6. How does the movement of tectonic plates affect the Earth's surface? A) Forms new landmasses. B) Causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. C) Creates mountains and valleys. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 7. Sedimentary and igneous rocks go through ..... to become metamorphic rocks. A) Weathering and erosion. B) Heat and pressure. C) Compacting and cementing. D) Melting and cooling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heat and pressure. 8. What is the liquid layer of the Earth's core? A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) Inner Core. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer Core. 9. Layer between Crust and Mantle: A) Gutenberga Discontinuity. B) Gutenberg Discontinuity. C) Mohorvihich Discontinuity. D) Mohorovic Discontinuity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mohorovic Discontinuity. 10. Which of these layers is ALL solid iron and nickle? A) Mesosphere. B) Outer core. C) Inner core. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner core. 11. Which layer of the Earth is primarily responsible for the movement of tectonic plates? A) Mantle. B) Lithosphere. C) Core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mantle. 12. What is a Fault? A) A rift with a hole. B) A rift displaced by blocks of Crust. C) A rift only. D) A rift blocked by chunks of the Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A rift displaced by blocks of Crust. 13. Which method would be BEST for scientists to use to determine the absolute age of a Precambrian igneous rock? A) Radiometric dating. B) Law of superposition. C) Index fossils. D) Law of original horizontality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radiometric dating. 14. The process by which metamorphic rock changes to igneous rock begins with A) Melting. B) Erosion. C) Deposition. D) Crystallization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melting. 15. The lithosphere combines what two layers? A) Athenosphere & Crust. B) Crust & Upper Mantle. C) Mantel & Asthenosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust & Upper Mantle. 16. Which is not a characteristic of a mineral? A) Inorganic. B) Liquid. C) Naturally occurring. D) Crystalline structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liquid. 17. The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth A) Core. B) Trench. C) Mantle. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crust. 18. Which layer of Earth do people and animals interact with? A) Inner core. B) Outer core. C) Crust. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust. 19. A particle block of solid volcanic ejecta is a(n)? A) Aa. B) Pillow. C) Pyroclast. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pyroclast. 20. Which of Earth's layers has the lowest density? A) Outer core. B) Crust. C) Inner core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 21. What is the process called where one tectonic plate is pulled under another? A) Mantle Drag. B) Core Rotation. C) Ridge Push. D) Slab Pull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slab Pull. 22. What is one way geologists determine where a plate boundary is located in real life? A) By looking at a cross section of the Earth. B) By looking for a gap between plates. C) By looking at the distribution of earthquakes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By looking at the distribution of earthquakes. 23. Scientists think that the continents once formed a giant landmass that broke apart, and then slowly drifted apart. What is the name given to this hypothesis? A) Plate tectonics. B) Sea-floor Spreading. C) Pangaea. D) Continental drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continental drift. 24. The lithosphere includes the A) Crust only. B) Mantle only. C) Crust and part of the mantle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust and part of the mantle. 25. Mountains are formed when A) One plate subducts under another one. B) When plates slide past one another and get stuck. C) When two plates push towards one another and the land bulges up. D) When there is a weak spot in the Earth's crust, and magma shoots out as lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When two plates push towards one another and the land bulges up. 26. ..... rocks grow slowly and quietly under the surface, ..... rocks result from quickly cooling lava A) Extrusive, intrusive. B) Intrusive, extrusive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrusive, extrusive. 27. Which part of Earth's history i best shown by analysis of ice cores? A) Changes in the amounts of precipitation. B) Changes in climate. C) Changes in plant growth. D) Changes in the formation of rock layers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Changes in climate. 28. Which layer of Earth has the GREATEST density? A) Inner core. B) Mantle. C) Crust. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner core. 29. What causes a rock to break down into sediment? A) Weathering and erosion. B) Heat and pressure. C) Compaction and cementation. D) Air pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weathering and erosion. 30. At what depth do magma convection currents occur? A) Crust. B) Core. C) Mantle. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle. 31. Fault-Block mountains are only formed where two plates converge into folds. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 32. How many continents are there? A) 5. B) 7. C) 3. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 33. What is the time difference between two meridians 15$^\circ$ apart? A) 4 hours. B) 30 minutes. C) 1 hour. D) 2 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 hour. 34. What is the force inside the mantle that causes the Earth's Plates to move? A) Subduction. B) Conduction. C) Convection. D) Radiation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convection. 35. The layer of the earth's atmosphere that has ozone as a path for airplanes and protection from UV rays is ..... A) Thermosphere layer. B) Troposphere layer. C) Exosphere layer. D) Stratosphere layer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratosphere layer. 36. What is the term for the idea that all land was once one large continent? A) Volcanism. B) Continental Drift. C) Seafloor Spreading. D) Plate Tectonics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental Drift. 37. How do scientists study the Earth's interior? A) Drilling into the Earth's core. B) Using satellites to take pictures of the Earth's interior. C) Seismic waves and geophysical methods. D) Measuring the temperature of the Earth's surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seismic waves and geophysical methods. 38. On which tectonic plate does the UK lie? A) Eurasian. B) North American. C) Mediterranean. D) Nazca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eurasian. 39. List the three compositional layers of Earth. A) Crust, mantle, core. B) Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere. C) Inner core, outer core, middle core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust, mantle, core. 40. Which one is hotter? A) The crust. B) Mantle. C) Inner core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner core. 41. What type of eclipse occurs when the Earth comes between the moon and the sun? A) Annular eclipse. B) Lunar eclipse. C) Solar eclipse. D) Total eclipse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lunar eclipse. 42. The theory of continental drift named a key part of this idea Pangaea. What is Pangaea? A) One of the ancient animals that helped Wegener prove that fossils from different continents originally came from the same location. B) Supercontinent that existed in Earth's distant past. C) The underwater ocean range in the middle of the ocean. D) The hot spot which gave rise to the Hawaiian Islands, among others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supercontinent that existed in Earth's distant past. 43. Tectonic plates move at the rate of ..... A) Tectonic plates do not move. B) 1 mile per hour. C) 2-5 centimeters a year/1-2 inches a year. D) 2 miles a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2-5 centimeters a year/1-2 inches a year. 44. Where is the Earth's crust the thickest? A) Mountains. B) Ocean. C) Equator. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountains. 45. Student A claims that sedimentary rocks form by heat and pressure deepunderground. Student B claims that sedimentary rocks form by the compactionand cementation of sediments produced from weathering.Which is correct? A) Student A. B) Student B. C) Both students are correct. D) Neither student is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Student B. 46. Why was Wegener not believed, even by other scientists? A) No one had ever heard of Pangea. B) He had no explanation of what had caused it to happened. C) The continents didn't really look they fit together. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He had no explanation of what had caused it to happened. 47. Which layer does the lithosphere (the outer most layer plus the crust) float on top of? A) Outer core. B) The crust. C) Asthenosphere. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asthenosphere. 48. Which sphere of the Earth contains all of Earth's water. A) Lithosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Biosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydrosphere. 49. Layer that "flows, " but is still solid: A) Lithosphere. B) Oceanic Crust. C) Continental Crust. D) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asthenosphere. 50. What causes tectonic plates to move? A) Wind. B) Gravity. C) Magma convection currents. D) Earth's rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magma convection currents. 51. Any rock that forms from another rock as a result of changes in heat or pressure (or both) is a: A) Sedimentary rock. B) Metamorphic rock. C) Igneous rock. D) Chemical rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metamorphic rock. 52. ..... are created by very hot material deep in the mantle rising, then cooling and sinking, then heating again and rising, then repeating the cycle. A) Convection currents. B) Magma currents. C) Conduction. D) Magma flows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convection currents. 53. At what point deep in the earth does an earthquake begin? A) Epicenter. B) Exocenter. C) Hypocenter. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypocenter. 54. The lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner and outer core are called A) Mechanical/physical layers. B) Compositional/chemical layers. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mechanical/physical layers. 55. September, October, ..... , December A) August. B) February. C) April. D) November. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) November. 56. Volcano that is inactive but can erupt again A) Dormant volcano. B) Extinct volcano. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dormant volcano. 57. The hottest part of the Earth is A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Inner Core. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner Core. 58. This layer of the Earth consists of solid metal. A) Inner core. B) Mantle. C) Outer core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner core. 59. The amount of mass per unit volume is described by: ..... A) Gravity. B) Meter. C) Density. D) Force. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Density. 60. The type of plate boundary where two plates come together is a ..... A) Divergent Boundary. B) Transform Boundary. C) Convergent Boundary. D) Plate Boundary. 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