This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is an island? A) A piece of land completely surrounded by water. B) A piece of land sticking out into the water. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A piece of land completely surrounded by water. 2. The most damaging type of waves A) Love waves. B) Rayleigh waves. C) Secondary waves. D) Primary waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love waves. 3. Most ..... occur along fault. A) Tsunami. B) Volcano. C) Earthquakes. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquakes. 4. Which of the following is not a component of the physical environment? A) Plants. B) Water. C) Temperature. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants. 5. ..... rocks are formed when magma cools and solidifies on reaching the surface A) Metamorphosis. B) Intrusive. C) Igneous. D) Extrusive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extrusive. 6. Place the processes in the formation of sedimentary rock in correct order. A) Weatheringcompactiondepositionerosion. B) Depositioncompactionerosionweathering. C) Weatheringerosiondepositioncompaction. D) Weatheringerosioncompactiondeposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weatheringerosiondepositioncompaction. 7. What is the process called when one tectonic plate is forced under another? A) Subduction. B) Convergence. C) Divergence. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subduction. 8. The iron and nickel that comprise (make up) the inner and outer core are ..... in the inner core, but ..... in the outer core. A) Solid, liquid. B) Solid, gaseous. C) Liquid, gaseous. D) Liquid, solid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solid, liquid. 9. Earth's plates are ..... A) Constantly moving and changing the face of the earth. B) Never moves. C) Moves seldom and very fast. D) Moves when it feels like it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constantly moving and changing the face of the earth. 10. Which best describes a hot spot? A) Plates slide past each other. B) Plates move together. C) Plates move apart. D) Activity occurs away from a boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Activity occurs away from a boundary. 11. Which of the following best describes the lithosphere? A) A rigid layer composed of the crust and upper mantle. B) A liquid layer beneath the crust. C) A gaseous layer surrounding the Earth. D) A layer of molten rock in the mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rigid layer composed of the crust and upper mantle. 12. List the 5 physical layers in order from outermost to innermost. A) Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core, mesosphere. B) Litho, meso, astheno, inner core, outer core. C) Litho, astheno, meso, outer core, inner core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litho, astheno, meso, outer core, inner core. 13. What is the order of the main layers of Earth? A) Core, mantle, crust. B) Crust, mantle, core. C) Mantel, core, crust. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust, mantle, core. 14. The San Andreas Fault is an example of A) Transform boundary. B) Divergent boundary. C) Collision. D) Subduction zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transform boundary. 15. Which layer of the Earth is the thickest? A) The crust. B) The core. C) The mantle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mantle. 16. What is the innermost layer of the Earth made primarily of iron and nickel? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Inner Core. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner Core. 17. About 80% of the world's earthquakes occur where? A) Alpide belt. B) Indian Ocean Belt. C) Circum-Pacific belt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circum-Pacific belt. 18. Which layer of the earth is completely Liquid? A) Mantle. B) Inner Core. C) Crust. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outer Core. 19. Which layer of the core is liquid? A) Inner core. B) Outer core. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outer core. 20. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions A) Transform Boundary. B) Divergent Boundary. C) Hotspot Volcanoes. D) Convergent Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transform Boundary. 21. Two plates DIVIDING. A) Divergent Boundary. B) Transform Boundary. C) Lithosphere. D) Subduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent Boundary. 22. Solid, rigid layer that is broken up into 12 "puzzle pieces" that float on an unstable molten layer of the mantle A) Continental Drift. B) Tectonic Plates. C) Mariana Trench. D) Hotspot Volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tectonic Plates. 23. What is the hot, convecting layer that is located directly under the crust? A) Outer core. B) Inner core. C) Crust. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mantle. 24. Sphere where life exists together: A) Lithosphere. B) Hydrosphere. C) Biosphere. D) Atmopshere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biosphere. 25. What is the boundary where plates slide past each other? A) Transform Boundary. B) Convergent Boundary. C) Divergent Boundary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transform Boundary. 26. How hot is the core? A) 4000 degrees Celsius. B) 3500 degrees Celsius. C) 5000 degrees Celsius. D) 4500 degrees Celsius. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5000 degrees Celsius. 27. The name of the super-continent that existed millions of years was called ..... A) Plate tectonics. B) Continental drift. C) Alfred Wegener. D) Pangaea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pangaea. 28. The portion of the Earth that supports the crust A) Outer Core. B) Inner Core. C) Mantle. D) Plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle. 29. Near which location is an earthquake most likely to occur? A) Crustal plate boundaries. B) The equator. C) Ocean basins. D) The middle of a continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crustal plate boundaries. 30. The amount of mass in an object per its unit of volume A) Plastic. B) Density. C) Mass. D) Volume. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Density. 31. What do geologists call the crust and upper mantle? A) Stratosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 32. The two types of weathering are:Freeze-Thaw weathering and Onion skin weathering. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Certain activities occur at different plate boundaries due to movement at the boundary. Which activity would be the MAIN result of two tectonic plates slipping past one another? A) Floods. B) Earthquakes. C) Island building. D) Sea floor spreading. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquakes. 34. A type of convergent plate boundary where the denser plate sinks below the other plate as they move towards each other A) Convergent plate boundary. B) Divergent plate boundary. C) Transform plate boundary. D) Subduction zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Subduction zone. 35. Density of core: A) 5g / cm cube. B) 15g/ cm cube. C) 25g/cm cube. D) 150 g/ cm cube. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 15g/ cm cube. 36. A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move A) Mariana Trench. B) Plate Movement. C) Plate Tectonics. D) Subduction Zone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plate Tectonics. 37. ..... is the densest part of the earth. A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Core. 38. The crust is broken up into chunks. What is the name of these slabs of the crust? A) Plate Margins. B) Plate Boundaries. C) Mantle Plates. D) Tectonic Plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tectonic Plates. 39. How are the crust and mantle different? A) The mantle is thinner than the crust. B) The mantle is cooler than the crust. C) The mantle is hotter than the crust. D) The mantle is less dense than the crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mantle is hotter than the crust. 40. This type of seismic waves are waves that can travel through inner layers of the earth. A) Body Waves. B) Surface Waves. C) Eight Waves. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Body Waves. 41. What material would best represent Earth's crust in a model? A) A hot, flowing liquid. B) A container of gas. C) A thin, rough material. D) A smooth, square block. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A thin, rough material. 42. A mid-ocean ridge is formed by A) Gravity. B) Convergent plate boundaries. C) Divergent plate boundaries. D) Transform plate boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divergent plate boundaries. 43. The tectonic plates float on which semi-liquid layer? A) Crust. B) Asthenosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere. 44. A place where plates move apart from each other in opposite directions. A) Convergent boundaries. B) Divergent boundaries. C) Transform boundaries. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divergent boundaries. 45. What is sea floor spreading? A) When two plates move away from each other, molten rock rises to fill the gap, creating new crust. B) The two plates move toward one another, an oceanic plate covers a continental plate. C) When there is a large wave that causes the ocean to spread on to the continent. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When two plates move away from each other, molten rock rises to fill the gap, creating new crust. 46. What is the fracture zone between stationary and moving rocks called? A) Lava tunnel. B) Fault. C) Moho. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fault. 47. The place where two plates meet A) A Plate Singles Club. B) Earthquake. C) Plate boundary. D) Fault line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plate boundary. 48. The Earth's north magnetic pole has NOT always been at its present location. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. What role do faults play in the Law of Superposition? A) Faults create new types of rock. B) Faults are younger than the layers they cut through. C) Faults are the same age as the layers they cut through. D) Faults are older than the layers they cut through. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faults are younger than the layers they cut through. 50. What do scientists use to infer the density and composition of materials below Earth's surface? A) Volcanic Waves. B) Oceanic Waves. C) Earthquake Waves. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake Waves. 51. The scientist who came up with Tectonic Plate Theory was? A) Merriweather Lewis. B) Thomas Edison. C) Alfred Wegner. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alfred Wegner. 52. What is NOT likely to happen at a divergent boundary? A) Mountain formation. B) Seafloor spreading. C) Rift valley. D) Volcano formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain formation. 53. Which best describes how the sun affects the weather? A) The sun causes cold water at the ocean's surface to sink to the bottom of theocean. B) The sun causes warm water from the poles to be sent toward the equator. C) The sun causes warm ocean water near the equator to be sent toward thepoles by ocean currents. D) The sun causes warm water at the ocean's surface to sink to the bottom ofthe ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sun causes warm ocean water near the equator to be sent toward thepoles by ocean currents. 54. What is Earth's only liquid layer? A) Crust. B) Outer Core. C) Mantle. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outer Core. 55. What is the primary method scientists use to study the Earth's interior? A) Drilling deep holes. B) Observing volcanic eruptions. C) Using satellite imagery. D) Studying seismic waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Studying seismic waves. 56. Which most likely causes seafloor spreading? A) Divergent boundaries. B) Convergent boundaries. C) Earthquakes. D) Transform fault boundaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent boundaries. 57. What word describes topographic features formed by processes that shape Earth's surface? A) Relief. B) Elevation. C) Landform. D) Topography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Landform. 58. Which layer contains semi-molten rock? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Tectonic Plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 59. The Asthenosphere is the ..... A) Upper part of the mantle. B) Upper part of the crust. C) Upper part of the outer core. D) Upper part of the inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upper part of the mantle. 60. Earth's outermost layer (underneath the soil, vegetation, and water) is made of ..... A) Ocean. B) Continents. C) Hard, solid rock. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hard, solid rock. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 1Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 2Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 3Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 4Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 5Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 6Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 7Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books