This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 7 > Geography > Our Changing Earth > Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of the instrument used for measuring earthquakes? A) Anemometer. B) Seismograph. C) Barometer. D) Thermometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seismograph. 2. What are all the agents of deposition? A) Water and ice. B) Water, wind, ice. C) Water, wind, ice, gravity, waves. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water, wind, ice, gravity, waves. 3. Richter scale, the instrument that measures the earthquake was invented by who? A) Thomas Richter. B) Charles Richter. C) Luke Richter. D) Bobby Richter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Richter. 4. What structures are formed when fine and light sand carried by wind is deposited in large areas? A) Estuaries. B) Glacial moraines. C) Sand dunes. D) Loess. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loess. 5. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface. A) Exfoliation. B) Weathering. C) Erosion. D) Deposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 6. Spring tides and neap tides occur in patterns governed by the A) Phases of the moon. B) Seasons (fall, winter, etc.). C) Surface currents. D) Deep sea currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phases of the moon. 7. When the lithospheric plates move the surface of the earth vibrates, the vibrations can travel all around the earth these vibrations are called A) Waves. B) Volcano. C) Glaciers. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earthquake. 8. What are endogenic forces also known as? A) Internal forces. B) Exogenic forces. C) External forces. D) Geological forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal forces. 9. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity is called an ..... A) Weathering. B) Earthquake. C) Divergent boundary. D) Fault. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquake. 10. A civil engineer would want to know about faults because: A) They want to observe eroded landscapes before building. B) They want to mark a volcano on the map. C) They need to know where plate boundaries are located. D) They need to measure the number of earthquakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They need to know where plate boundaries are located. 11. The ..... is the point within the Earth where an earthquake originates, while the ..... is the point on the Earth's surface directly above it. A) Focus. B) Epicenter. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focus. 12. Metamorphic rock is formed by- A) Compaction. B) Heat and pressure. C) Cementation. D) Melting magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heat and pressure. 13. It is a circular opening through which hot molten material erupt suddenly. This opening is called A) Vent. B) Lava. C) Crust. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vent. 14. The landscape is being continuously worn away by two process. The wearing away of the landscape by different agents like water, wind and ice is called A) Erosion. B) Moraines. C) Weathering. D) Flood plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erosion. 15. Which set of words are related to igneous rocks? A) Layers, fossils, decaying plants and animals. B) Heat, pressure, chemical changes. C) Magma, crystals, heating and cooling. D) Sand, sediment, fossils. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magma, crystals, heating and cooling. 16. Exogenic force Example: A) Volcano. B) Earth quake. C) Glaciers. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glaciers. 17. A long deep crack in the rock or in the earth A) Fissure. B) Landforms. C) Exogenic forces. D) Circus Pacific Belt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fissure. 18. The narrow elongated deposits of sand is known as? A) Island. B) Beach. C) Peninsula. D) Sand bars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sand bars. 19. Weathering is a slow change. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. Transfer of thermal energy caused by the rising of hotter less dense fluids and the sinking of cooler more dense fluids: A) Radiation. B) Conduction. C) Density. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection. 21. Endo means ..... and genic means ..... A) Inside, Origin. B) Origin, Inside. C) Outside, Origin. D) Outside, Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inside, Origin. 22. What is the term for the wall-like features that remain after the roof of a sea cave erodes away? A) Waterfalls. B) Sea cliffs. C) Glacial moraines. D) Stacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stacks. 23. The breaking down of rocks or soil into smaller pieces is called ..... A) Erosion. B) Deposition. C) Weathering. D) All of the above. E) . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering. 24. What are the hardened remains (parts of an animal that are dead) of plants and animals; found in sedimentary rock? A) Erosion. B) Fault. C) Mountains. D) Fossils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fossils. 25. When the LITHOSPHERIC PLATES move, the surface of the earth vibrates. That vibration is called ..... A) Volcano. B) Earthquake. C) Forces. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquake. 26. The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 27. Stack is the erosionl feature of: A) The River. B) Glaciers. C) Waves. D) Winds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waves. 28. Which layer is the thickest? A) Core. B) Crust. C) Mantle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mantle. 29. The crust is deepest A) On land. B) On the mantle. C) Under the oceans. D) At the core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under the oceans. 30. Humans are not able to reach the interior layers of the Earth because A) The crust is equally thick in all areas. B) There is extreme heat and pressure deep within the planet. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is extreme heat and pressure deep within the planet. 31. Earth's rocky outer layer A) Mantle. B) Inner core. C) Crust. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crust. 32. The huge mass of broken lithosphere is called A) Tetrahedral. B) Asthenosphere. C) Lithospheric plates. D) Lithosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithospheric plates. 33. Contains some liquid rock, but mostly solid rock A) Outer core. B) Mantle. C) Inner core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 34. When a river deposits sediments along its shores, what geographical feature is formed? A) Sea cave. B) Waterfall. C) Beach. D) Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beach. 35. Which landform is created by plates pushing together? A) Mountain. B) Sea arch. C) Delta. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain. 36. What name is given to large, destructive waves caused by underwater earthquakes and volcanoes? A) Swell. B) Spring tide. C) Tsunami. D) Longshore current. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tsunami. 37. What is the primary cause of landscape erosion? A) Human activities. B) Volcanic activity. C) Glacial movement. D) Agents like water, wind, and ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agents like water, wind, and ice. 38. The sudden shaking of the earth caused by Internal forces of the earth is called the ..... A) Tsunami. B) Flood. C) Earthquake. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake. 39. 4Q) WHAT IS FLOOD? A) RIVER WATER TAKEN OUT. B) RIVER WATER OVER FLOW. C) RIVER WATER COME OUT. D) RIVER DRY UP. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) RIVER WATER OVER FLOW. 40. The crust and the mantle are composed of mostly A) Nickel. B) Liquid material. C) Rocky material. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rocky material. 41. If a river begins to break up into a number of streams is known as A) Tributaries. B) Distributaries. C) Loess. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distributaries. 42. How does gravity affect objects on Earth? A) It pulls objects toward Earth. B) It holds objects above Earth. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It pulls objects toward Earth. 43. The slow movement of continents towards and qway from each other A) Alfred wegener. B) Plate tectonics. C) Jurassic. D) Continental drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continental drift. 44. The series of processes in which rock changes from one type to another. A) Sedimentary Rock. B) Igneous Rock. C) Metamorphic Rock. D) Rock Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rock Cycle. 45. What is the term used for the fine and light sand carried by wind and deposited in large areas? A) Loess. B) Glacial moraines. C) Sand dunes. D) Meanders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loess. 46. The forces that act in the interior of the earth A) Exogenic forces. B) Fire forces. C) Harmful forces. D) Endogenic forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endogenic forces. 47. What landform is formed when a river tumbles over very hard rocks or down a steep valley side? A) Waterfall. B) Meander. C) Ox-bow lake. D) Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waterfall. 48. The crust of the earth along with the cooler upper part of the mantle is called A) Mesosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 49. Mushroom rock is the erosional features of A) Wind. B) Waves. C) Glaciers. D) The River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind. 50. Which type of plate boundary comes together? A) Transform. B) Convergent. C) Divergent. D) Dinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convergent. 51. A deep ocean current A) Is a steam of water that flows deep under the ocean's surface. B) A fast flowing steam in the ocean. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is a steam of water that flows deep under the ocean's surface. 52. Wearing away of the landscape with different agents is known as? A) Volcano. B) Erosion. C) Weathering. D) Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erosion. 53. What kind of plate boundaries have the plates move towards each other and causes earthquakes and forms mountains? A) Transform. B) Sliding. C) Convergent. D) Divergent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convergent. 54. Formed by the moving water of the Colorado River A) Grand Casteel. B) Grand Canyon. C) Grand Erosion. D) Grand Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grand Canyon. 55. The layer of Earth made up of hot liquid rocks that flow under pressure A) Outer core. B) Inner core. C) Crust. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mantle. 56. When two plates collide or travel toward each other A) Convergent. B) Divergent. C) Transform. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convergent. 57. The earth movements are divided on the basis of the ..... A) Movements. B) Forces. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forces. 58. The result of the effect in lithospheric plates is A) Change on the surface of the earth. B) Change on the surface of the country. C) No change. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Change on the surface of the earth. 59. Branches of a river that do not return to the main river are called: A) Tributaries. B) Distributaries. C) Deltas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distributaries. 60. The hottest and deepest layer of Earth is called: A) Mantle. B) Crust. 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