This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Natural Environment have which components? A) The components are natural. B) The components are organic. C) The components are from plants only. D) The components are the decay of animals. E) The components are man-made. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The components are natural. 2. What are the large pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move over the asthenosphere? A) Tectonic Slabs. B) Oceanic Ridges. C) Lithospheric Plates. D) Continental Shelves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithospheric Plates. 3. How many layers is the Earth made up of? A) 3. B) 2. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 4. Forms where two tectonic plates collide, or push into, each other A) Convergent plate boundary. B) Divergent plate boundary. C) Transform plate boundary. D) Subduction zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convergent plate boundary. 5. Which are NOT a property used to characterize minerals? A) Specific gravity. B) Hardness. C) Fracture. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Taste. 6. Earth's only liquid layer: A) Outer Core. B) Upper Mantle. C) Lower Mantle. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outer Core. 7. What is a Crater? A) Top of the Volcano. B) Base of the Volcano. C) Middle of the Volcano. D) Path through which Magma comes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Top of the Volcano. 8. A convergent boundary is A) Where two tectonic plates collide together. B) Where two tectonic plates spread apart from each other. C) Where two tectonic plates bump each other and rub against each other. D) Where tectonic plates pull apart and collide together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where two tectonic plates collide together. 9. Which type of plate boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other, often causing earthquakes? A) Transform Boundary. B) Convergent Boundary. C) Subduction Zone. D) Divergent Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transform Boundary. 10. Where two tectonic plates meet A) Mountain. B) At their favorite restaurant. C) Inner Core. D) Plate boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plate boundary. 11. What is the outermost and thinnest layer of the Earth? A) Outer core. B) Crust. C) Inner core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 12. What must happen to a metamorphic rock before it becomes a sedimentary rock rock? A) It must be broken down into sediment. B) It must be melted into magma. C) Its minerals must dissolve in water. D) It must be exposed to high temperature and pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It must be broken down into sediment. 13. What is the definition of lithosphere? A) The solid upper mantle and crust combine to form a rigid shell. B) The innermost of Earth's layers combine to form this, which extends to the center of the Earth. C) Earth's thickest layer, makes up more than two-thirds of Earth's mass. D) The theory that a hard boiled egg can represent the Earth's structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The solid upper mantle and crust combine to form a rigid shell. 14. Which type of climate will have faster chemical weathering? A) Hot and Wet. B) Cold and Dry. C) Hot and Cold. D) Cold and Wet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot and Wet. 15. Which layer of the Earth is involved in plate tectonics and is responsible for the movement of continents? A) Mantle. B) Outer Core. C) Crust. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust. 16. When an oceanic plate and a continental plate meet, which will subduct under the other? A) Oceanic under continental. B) Continental under oceanic. C) Depends on how hot and heavy they are. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oceanic under continental. 17. What is an opening in the earth's surface through which hot gases, ash, and molten rock are ejected from the earth's interior? A) Volcano. B) Core-mantle boundary. C) Geographic information system. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcano. 18. The temperature varies between ..... to ..... in the mantle. A) 2000 to 8400. B) 1000 to 3700. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1000 to 3700. 19. What is the name of the Super-Continent that existed long ago? A) Wegener. B) Pangaea. C) Geocontinent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pangaea. 20. The height of the mesosphere layer is ..... A) 20 to 55 km. B) 30 to 65 km. C) 50 to 85 km. D) 40 to 75 km. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 50 to 85 km. 21. Both plains and plateaus have high elevation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. Earthquakes caused by the shifting of the earth's plates are called ..... earthquakes. A) Ruins. B) Collapses. C) Volcanic. D) Tectonics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tectonics. 23. What is the plastic, flowing layer within the mantle? A) Asthenosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Magnetosphere. D) Geosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asthenosphere. 24. Continental crust is approximately ..... kilometers thick. A) 8 to 10. B) 30 to 70. C) 300 to 500. D) 160 to 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30 to 70. 25. True or False? Soil is a mixture of organic (living or once living) and inorganic (never living) material. A) True. B) False. C) I am not sure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. Discuss how heat flow and movement of material within Earth can lead to volcanic eruptions. A) Heat flow causes the crust to cool and contract. B) Movement of material creates pressure that forces magma to the surface. C) Heat flow solidifies magma, preventing eruptions. D) Movement of material causes the crust to thicken. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement of material creates pressure that forces magma to the surface. 27. Beneath the crust is the ..... , a thick layer of hot but solid rock. A) Core. B) Mantle. C) Lithosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 28. Divergent tectonic plates is where A) Tectonic plates collide together. B) Tectonic plates move apart from each other. C) Tectonic plates bump and rub against each other. D) Tectonic plates collide together and pull apart from each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tectonic plates move apart from each other. 29. This layer of Earth is solid Iron and Nickel A) Crust. B) Outer Core. C) Inner Core. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner Core. 30. The upper part of continental crust is made of: A) Sial. B) Siam. C) Sima. D) Alsi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sial. 31. What two systems are interacting in the following statement: "A fish swims in the lake" ? A) Hydrosphere and geosphere. B) Biosphere and cryosphere. C) Biosphere and hydrosphere. D) Atmosphere and cryosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere and hydrosphere. 32. The ..... under the crust cause the plates to move. A) Ocean. B) Plates. C) Crust. D) Molten rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Molten rocks. 33. Much of the crust is made up of silicates, rocks made of compounds of silicon and oxygen. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. The part of the Earth that is a solid ball of iron and nickel A) Inner core. B) Crust. C) Mantle. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner core. 35. Two plates COLIDING together. A) Lithosphere. B) Transform Boundary. C) Convergent Boundary. D) Divergent Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convergent Boundary. 36. What is the correct order of the layers of Earth, starting from Earth's center? A) Outer core, inner core, mantle, crust. B) Outer core, inner core, crust, mantle. C) Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust. D) Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust. 37. The core is divided in two parts:outer core and inner core. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. The portion of the Earth that we live on is called the A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) Core. D) Gravity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 39. We think we know what the Earth is made up of because of what? A) Tornadoes. B) Earthquakes. C) Volcanoes. D) Mudslides. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquakes. 40. Main type of seismic waves that can only travel through the surface of the Earth. A) Primary waves. B) Body waves. C) Seismic waves. D) Surface waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surface waves. 41. When heat and pressure is applied to a rock it changes into a ..... rock. A) Igneous. B) Metamorphic. C) Clastic. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metamorphic. 42. The mantle of Earth is made of a plastic like material that when its heated, the material rises, cools, sinks and is then re-heated. This constant flow of a fluid is called A) A conduction current. B) A convection current. C) A volcanic eruption. D) A hot spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A convection current. 43. Why is the inner core made from solid metal, while the outer core is made ofmolten metal? A) The pressure of the inner core is higher than the outer core. B) The pressure of the inner core is lower than the outer core. C) The temperature of the inner core is lower than the outer core. D) The temperature of the inner core is higher than the outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pressure of the inner core is higher than the outer core. 44. Is everything a gift from nature? A) Not really. B) Yes obviously. C) Don't know. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not really. 45. A deep depression of the sea floor caused by the subduction of one plate under another A) Trench. B) Lithosphere. C) Mountains. D) Pacific Ring of Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trench. 46. The Earth's seven largest landmasses are ..... A) States. B) Countries. C) Oceans. D) Continents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continents. 47. What layer is a semisolid and acts like a plastic? A) Lithosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Crust. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere. 48. The motion of tectonic plates can cause both slow and rapid changes in Earth's surface. Which is an example of a rapid change? A) Formation of an ocean trench. B) Earthquake. C) Seafloor spreading. D) Mountain range formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquake. 49. The arrangement of the Earth's structure from the inside to the surface in order is ..... A) Inner core, outer core, earth's mantle, earth's crust. B) Inner core, asthenosphere, outer core, crust. C) Inner core, outer core, earth's crust, earth's mantle. D) Inner core, mantle, outer core, crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner core, outer core, earth's mantle, earth's crust. 50. What is magma made of? A) Solid rock. B) Melted rock. C) Small pieces of sediment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melted rock. 51. A type of rock that forms when particles compact and are cemented together A) Igneous. B) Erosion. C) Sediment. D) Sedimentary rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedimentary rock. 52. Releases magma, cinders, ash, and gases ..... A) Volcano. B) Magma. C) Tsunami. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcano. 53. What practical application relies on knowledge of Earth's layers to understand and predict seismic activity? A) Mining. B) Farming. C) Seismology. D) Astronomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seismology. 54. The core is really hot because ..... A) It contains a small star. B) Of endothermic chemical reactions. C) Of exothermic chemical reactions. D) Of all the pressure of the layers above increases the heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Of all the pressure of the layers above increases the heat. 55. What is the term for the shaking or trembling of the Earth's surface caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust? A) Ground shaking. B) Tremor. C) Earthquake. D) Seismic activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake. 56. Another name for the crust and upper mantle is ..... A) Lithosphere. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere. 57. How does temperature change as you move from the crust to the core? A) It gets colder. B) Stays the same. C) It gets hotter. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It gets hotter. 58. This is the only truly liquid layer of the Earth: A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Outer Core. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outer Core. 59. Strategize how scientists might use evidence from volcanic eruptions to support the theory of plate tectonics. A) By observing the uniform distribution of eruptions. B) By measuring the height of volcanic mountains. C) By mapping the locations of eruptions along plate boundaries. D) By analyzing the chemical composition of lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By mapping the locations of eruptions along plate boundaries. 60. The slow constant motion of Earth's plates is caused by ..... A) Convection currents in the mantle. B) Earthquakes. C) Volcanoes. D) Earth's magnetic field. 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