This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The main components of soil are ..... A) Pieces of rock. B) Air and water. C) Silt and humus. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are correct. 2. The soil layer considered most productive in grassland soil is the A) A-layer. B) B-horizon. C) O-layer. D) E-horizon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A-layer. 3. This soil can be seen in North Karnataka. A) Alluvial soil. B) Black soil. C) Red soil. D) Laterite soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Black soil. 4. A sedimentary rock made of sand particles stuck together is? A) Granite. B) Basalt. C) Sand. D) Sandstone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sandstone. 5. Which of these is not a component of the soil? A) Organisms. B) Minerals. C) Cover crops. D) Organic matter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cover crops. 6. ..... erosion is the removal of soil by concentrated water running through little streamlets, A) Rill. B) Gully. C) Sandy. D) Shifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rill. 7. Students observed that in one corner of the playground was a patch of smooth, flat soil. After several days, they noticed that ripples had formed across the sand. What was the most likely cause of this change? A) Wind blowing. B) Ice freezing. C) Water moving. D) Snow falling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind blowing. 8. What is the very top layer of soil? A) Subsoil. B) Humus. C) Topsoil. D) Bedrock. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humus. 9. Which of the following is NOT be found in topsoil? A) Humus. B) Bedrock. C) Minerals. D) Sediment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bedrock. 10. The texture of soil depends mainly on A) The types of plants that grow in the soil. B) The color of the soil. C) The size of the particles in the soil. D) The number of worms in the soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The size of the particles in the soil. 11. Sandy soil is found in A) Desert. B) Northern plains. C) Northern Mountains. D) Deccan Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desert. 12. How do rocks get into the soil?What happens 1st, 2nd, and 3rd? A) 1. erosion2. deposition3. weathering. B) 1. weathering2. erosion3. deposition. C) 1. deposition2. weathering3. erosion. D) 1. erosion2. weathering3. deposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. weathering2. erosion3. deposition. 13. You can touch or feel a rock to describe which of the rock's characteristics? A) Age. B) Texture. C) Weight. D) Streak test. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Texture. 14. This type of soil is best for growing crops. A) Humus. B) Sand. C) Clay. D) Loam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loam. 15. Human activities that increase soil erosion include A) Mining. B) Overgrazing by cattle. C) Afforestation. D) Both mining and overgrazing by cattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both mining and overgrazing by cattle. 16. What can we learn from studying the fossils in a certain area? A) How much rain fell in the area last year?. B) How much sunlight the area received?. C) The direction the wind used to blow in the past. D) The kinds of animals that lived in the ares. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The kinds of animals that lived in the ares. 17. The breaking down of big rocks into smaller rocks A) Conglomerate. B) Weathering. C) Abrasion. D) Chemical reaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 18. ..... is used to generate electricity from wind. A) Windblast. B) Windglass. C) Windmill. D) Windfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Windmill. 19. A mixture of sand, clay, and pebbles A) Humus. B) Conglomerate. C) Weathering. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conglomerate. 20. The luster of a rock is how well it reflects (a) A) Objects. B) Dirt. C) A. light. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. light. 21. Which of the following can cause weathering? A) Fertilizing the land. B) Minerals and humus. C) Water, wind, plants, and animals. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water, wind, plants, and animals. 22. Which process is primarily responsible for the breakdown of rocks into smaller particles to form soil? A) Sedimentation. B) Compaction. C) Weathering. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering. 23. The soil from deposition of rivers. A) Alluvial soil. B) Black soil. C) Red soil. D) Laterite soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alluvial soil. 24. Information that supports an idea A) Amber. B) Fossil. C) Evidence. D) Dinosaur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evidence. 25. Which soil property is most important for determining its ability to retain water? A) Color. B) PH level. C) Texture. D) Temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Texture. 26. Which soil component is coarse and gritty? A) Clay. B) Silt. C) Sand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sand. 27. Which part of the seed is responsible for the initial growth of the plant? A) Embryo. B) Seed Coat. C) Cotyledon. D) Endosperm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Embryo. 28. This state is dominated by black soil A) Maharashtra. B) Gujarat. C) Karnataka. D) Madhya Pradesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maharashtra. 29. The soil where we live has a lot of ..... and ..... A) Shells and rocks. B) Sand and clay. C) Leaves and moss. D) Black and gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sand and clay. 30. Any natural resource that makes up Earth, including soil and water. A) Physical weathering. B) Chemical reaction. C) Conglomerate. D) Earth materials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth materials. 31. A rock that has been moved by moving water would most likely be ..... A) Smooth. B) Shiny. C) Soft. D) Bumpy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smooth. 32. The particular order of objects, movements, and events A) Context clues. B) Main idea. C) Sequence. D) Retain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sequence. 33. Sophia is blindfolded. She feels a soil. It feels powdery, soft, and she cannot feel any particles in between her fingers. What soil is she most likely feeling? A) Sand. B) Loam. C) Clay. D) Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clay. 34. Techniques used to try and limit soil erosion is known as ..... A) Soil Profile. B) Soil Practice. C) Soil Survey. D) Soil Conservation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soil Conservation. 35. What is the correct order of soil horizons? A. o horizon (humus or organic)B. c horizon (substratum)C. r horizon (bedrock)D. a horizon (topsoil)E. b horizon (subsoil)F. e horizon (eluvial or leached) A) FDAECB. B) BCEFAD. C) AFDCBE. D) ADFEBC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) ADFEBC. 36. Soil is made up of organic material and ..... A) Shells from the beach. B) Mud. C) Moss. D) Very tiny pieces of rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Very tiny pieces of rock. 37. The grinding away of rock by smaller pieces carried in water, ice, or wind A) Abrasion. B) Chemical reaction. C) Weathering. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abrasion. 38. Soils are a mixture of all of the following EXCEPT: A) Mixture of minerals. B) Water and air. C) Leaves. D) Decaying organisms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaves. 39. The state soil of PA is A) Allegheny Soil. B) Carbon County Soil. C) Hazelton Soil. D) Pittsburgh Soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hazelton Soil. 40. This is not suitable for agriculture A) Alluvial soil. B) Black soil. C) Red soil. D) Laterite soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Laterite soil. 41. Which body of water has land all around it? A) Ocean. B) Lake. C) River. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake. 42. Which property of soil could students determine by rubbing a sample between their fingers? A) The soils ability to support life. B) The process that formed the soil. C) The texture of soil. D) The color of the soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The texture of soil. 43. Which type of soil feels smooth when you rub it between your fingers? A) Sand. B) Humus. C) Clay. D) Loam. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clay. 44. True or False:We have a limited amount of fossil fuels. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. Scientists scratch one mineral against another to find ..... A) Erosion. B) Weathering. C) Harndness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harndness. 46. In an experiment, a student adds water to a soil sample and observes that it forms a sticky ball. What type of soil is most likely present? A) Sandy soil. B) Silty soil. C) Clay soil. D) Loamy soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clay soil. 47. The wearing away and breaking of rock is called ..... A) Hardness. B) Erosion. C) Weathering. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering. 48. Which type of soil is the second largest? A) Gravel. B) Pebbles. C) Sand. D) Clay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravel. 49. What primarily helps turn organic material into humus A) Mr. Moon. B) Microbes. C) Plants. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microbes. 50. Which mineral has the largest particle in a soil? A) Sand. B) Silt. C) Clay. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sand. 51. Humus is decayed living/organic matter. It adds ..... to the soil. A) Sunlight. B) Nutrients. C) Air. D) Worms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nutrients. 52. Breaking of igneous rocks in low rainfall conditions has lead to the formation of A) Laterite. B) Red and yellow. C) Arid. D) Forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red and yellow. 53. Which type of soil is used to make toys and pots A) Clayey soil. B) Loamy soil. C) Silty soil. D) Sandy soil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clayey soil. 54. In which layer of soil does the underground water gets collected? A) Bedrock. B) Childrock. C) Parentrock. D) Subsoil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parentrock. 55. Which soil has the tiniest grains and holds water easily? A) Humus. B) Clay. C) Silt. D) Loam. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clay. 56. A component of soil made by the weathering of rocks into tiny grains; has a rough and gritty texture A) Loam. B) Soil. C) Clay. D) Sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sand. 57. The ..... the grain size, the faster the water will move through the soil. A) More mixed. B) Smaller. C) Larger. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Larger. 58. Nick investigates.He observes that one soil is smooth and one is lumpy.What property did Nick observe? A) Color. B) Texture. C) Size of rock bits. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Texture. 59. ..... gets nutrients from soil. A) Plants. B) Humans. C) Books. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plants. 60. Soil is composed of all these natural materials EXCEPT? A) Plastic substances. B) Plant matter. C) Weathered rock. D) Animal remains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plastic substances. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 1Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 2Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 3Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 4Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 6Class 11 Geography Chapter 6 Soils Quiz 7Class 11 Geography Chapter 1 The Earth Our Habitat QuizClass 11 Geography Chapter 10 Transport And Communication Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books