Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Quiz 5 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is the name of the instrument used for measuring earthquakes?
2. What are all the agents of deposition?
3. Richter scale, the instrument that measures the earthquake was invented by who?
4. What structures are formed when fine and light sand carried by wind is deposited in large areas?
5. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
6. Spring tides and neap tides occur in patterns governed by the
7. When the lithospheric plates move the surface of the earth vibrates, the vibrations can travel all around the earth these vibrations are called
8. What are endogenic forces also known as?
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 .....
10. A civil engineer would want to know about faults because:
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.
12. Metamorphic rock is formed by-
13. It is a circular opening through which hot molten material erupt suddenly. This opening is called
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
15. Which set of words are related to igneous rocks?
16. Exogenic force Example:
17. A long deep crack in the rock or in the earth
18. The narrow elongated deposits of sand is known as?
19. Weathering is a slow change.
20. Transfer of thermal energy caused by the rising of hotter less dense fluids and the sinking of cooler more dense fluids:
21. Endo means ..... and genic means .....
22. What is the term for the wall-like features that remain after the roof of a sea cave erodes away?
23. The breaking down of rocks or soil into smaller pieces is called .....
24. What are the hardened remains (parts of an animal that are dead) of plants and animals; found in sedimentary rock?
25. When the LITHOSPHERIC PLATES move, the surface of the earth vibrates. That vibration is called .....
26. The Theory of Continental Drift states that Pangaea broke apart and the continents "drifted" away from each other
27. Stack is the erosionl feature of:
28. Which layer is the thickest?
29. The crust is deepest
30. Humans are not able to reach the interior layers of the Earth because
31. Earth's rocky outer layer
32. The huge mass of broken lithosphere is called
33. Contains some liquid rock, but mostly solid rock
34. When a river deposits sediments along its shores, what geographical feature is formed?
35. Which landform is created by plates pushing together?
36. What name is given to large, destructive waves caused by underwater earthquakes and volcanoes?
37. What is the primary cause of landscape erosion?
38. The sudden shaking of the earth caused by Internal forces of the earth is called the .....
39. 4Q) WHAT IS FLOOD?
40. The crust and the mantle are composed of mostly
41. If a river begins to break up into a number of streams is known as
42. How does gravity affect objects on Earth?
43. The slow movement of continents towards and qway from each other
44. The series of processes in which rock changes from one type to another.
45. What is the term used for the fine and light sand carried by wind and deposited in large areas?
46. The forces that act in the interior of the earth
47. What landform is formed when a river tumbles over very hard rocks or down a steep valley side?
48. The crust of the earth along with the cooler upper part of the mantle is called
49. Mushroom rock is the erosional features of
50. Which type of plate boundary comes together?
51. A deep ocean current
52. Wearing away of the landscape with different agents is known as?
53. What kind of plate boundaries have the plates move towards each other and causes earthquakes and forms mountains?
54. Formed by the moving water of the Colorado River
55. The layer of Earth made up of hot liquid rocks that flow under pressure
56. When two plates collide or travel toward each other
57. The earth movements are divided on the basis of the .....
58. The result of the effect in lithospheric plates is
59. Branches of a river that do not return to the main river are called:
60. The hottest and deepest layer of Earth is called: