Class 7 Geography Chapter 2 Inside Our Earth Quiz 13 (52 MCQs)

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1. Which rock changes into marble under heat and pressure?
2. Using items over and over again or in a new way .....
3. Which type of rocks may contain fossils of plants, animals, and micro-organisms?
4. Marble is a type of ..... rock
5. Rocks that have been changed due to excessive heat and pressure are called .....
6. What is the combination that forms ( SIAL ) when together?
7. The lithosphere is broken into a number of plates known as the .....
8. What is the uppermost layer called
9. Transformation of one rock to another is known as
10. ..... because people pollute lakes, rivers and oceans with garbage and oil.
11. There is an outer and inner ..... in the interior of the earth
12. The temperature at the centre of the earth is estimated to be-
13. Metamorphic rocks are also known as
14. The average radius of the mantle is about
15. Which landform is formed when a river erodes a steep slope?
16. Crust is about ..... km. on the continental masses and only ..... km. on the ocean floors.
17. Name the two types of rocks formed by igneous rocks
18. What are three types of rock
19. What type of rocks are formed from sediments that are transported, deposited, and compressed over time?
20. Earth is a ..... planet
21. What is the main composition of the Earth's core?
22. The temperature at the centre is estimated to be about
23. By what metamorphic rocks are formed
24. Which of the following describes rocks formed when sediments are buried, compacted, and cemented together?
25. What are the main mineral constituents of the continental mass?
26. Sometimes the molten magma cools down deep inside the earth's crust. Solid rocks so formed are called ..... igneous rocks
27. What does the Richter scale measure?
28. Which is the thinnest of all the layers?
29. The loose sediments are hardened to form metamorphic rocks.
30. The deepest point on the surface of the earth is .....
31. The Earth's mantle is consist of?
32. Man mineral constituent in oceanic crust
33. Uppermost layer of Earth's surface is called
34. A change in height changes the .....
35. Marble is a form of which rock?
36. Sedimentary rocks turned into a ..... rock
37. The asthenosphere is part of which layer?
38. What is formed when the sediments are compressed and hardened to form layers of rock?
39. What does clay change into under great heat and pressure?
40. The earth has ..... layers.
41. Examples of organically formed sedimentary rocks are
42. What is the thinnest layer of the earth's surface?
43. The outer layer of the core is in molten state
44. The remains of the dead plants and animals trapped in the layers of ..... are called fossils.
45. WHERE THE MANTLE LIES
46. Deccan plateau is made up of basalt.
47. There are ..... types of rocks.
48. The inner most layer, core has a radius of about
49. What is the percentage of the volume of the earth?
50. The upper part of the crust is called ..... and the lower part is called .....
51. Fossils fuel like coal are found in .....
52. The process by which igneous rocks are formed .....