This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 7 > Geography > Our Changing Earth > Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The process of magma rising from the mantle and spreading out at the ridge is called A) Tectonicking. B) Seafloor spreading. C) Continental drift. D) Trenching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seafloor spreading. 2. The Earth is ..... changing. A) Usually. B) Always. C) Never. D) Sometimes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Always. 3. Irregular shaped Plates are known as A) Slap. B) God knowns, why are you asking me. C) Slabs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slabs. 4. Which of these is a slow change to the Earth's surface? A) An earthquake. B) Water weathering rock. C) A volcanic eruption. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water weathering rock. 5. Which particle size is biggest? A) Clay. B) Sand. C) Gravel. D) Silt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gravel. 6. How does wind erosion typically affect the lower section of mushroom rocks in deserts? A) It erodes the lower part more. B) It causes the rock to crumble. C) It erodes the upper part more. D) It leaves the rock unaffected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It erodes the lower part more. 7. Rocks that have layers formed by sediment cemented together are A) Boulders. B) Igneous. C) Metamorphic. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedimentary. 8. Wind can build up sand dunes. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. What causes funny rock formations? A) Sediment and weathering. B) Erosion and deposition. C) Weathering and erosion. D) Sediment and erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering and erosion. 10. An earthquake is measured with a machine called a ..... A) Richter Scale. B) Magnitude. C) Bulldozer. D) Seismograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seismograph. 11. Which of the following are referred to as greenhouse gases? A) Oxygen and carbon dioxide. B) Water vapor and carbon dioxide. C) Water vapor and oxygen. D) Nitrogen and oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water vapor and carbon dioxide. 12. Green House gas is A) Ethane. B) Oxygen. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon dioxide. 13. A ox-bow lake is formed by A) Meanders. B) Ocean. C) Delta. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meanders. 14. ..... is when small pieces of rock move to another location; usually caused by water and wind. A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Deposition. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erosion. 15. What happens to sand when the wind stops blowing in deserts? A) It evaporates. B) It becomes mud. C) It gets transported to other deserts. D) It falls and gets deposited as sand dunes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It falls and gets deposited as sand dunes. 16. It is a vent ( opening ) in the earth's crust through which molten material erupts suddenly A) Crust. B) Earthquake. C) Volcano. D) Crater. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcano. 17. Which type of endogenic force can result in mass destruction over the earth's surface? A) River deposition. B) Building mountains. C) Erosion. D) Volcanic eruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volcanic eruption. 18. Which forces cause the movement of lithospheric plates? A) Tectonic forces. B) Atmospheric forces. C) Solar forces. D) Geothermal forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tectonic forces. 19. The magnitude of Earthquake is measured on the A) Richter Scale. B) Vernier Scale. C) Speedometer. D) Galvanometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richter Scale. 20. What were the immediate effects of the earthquake on the town of Bhuj? A) Only minor damage to school buildings and homes. B) Collapse of school buildings resulting in casualties. C) Food and medical supplies reaching everyone promptly. D) Power stations remained functional without any disruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collapse of school buildings resulting in casualties. 21. Erosion of sand leads to the formation of deflation hollows? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. How does flooding impact the neighboring areas of a river? A) It leads to erosion. B) It causes deposition of sediments. C) It creates steep valleys. D) It results in volcanic activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It causes deposition of sediments. 23. The place on the surface of the earth above the focus A) Epicenter. B) Lake. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epicenter. 24. What type of sand is carried over long distances by the wind in deserts? A) Heavy and coarse sand. B) Fine and light sand. C) Wet and sticky sand. D) Colored sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fine and light sand. 25. People can ..... trash. A) Reduce. B) Earth. C) Bottles. D) Recycling. E) Litter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduce. 26. In the course of time the meander loop cuts off from the river and forms a cut-off lake also called as ..... A) Leeves. B) Floodplain. C) Ox-bow lake. D) Meanders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ox-bow lake. 27. The lithosphere is broken into number of ..... know as the lithospheric plates A) Glass. B) Chips. C) Plates. D) Glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plates. 28. What is the breaking up of the rocks on the earth's surface A) Waterfall. B) Meanders. C) River. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weathering. 29. When a substance is heated its density A) Increases. B) Decreases. C) Stays the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases. 30. Mount Fuji in Japan is ..... mountain? A) Active volcano. B) Dormant volcano. C) Extinct volcano. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Active volcano. 31. Which is not the work of wind as an agent of erosion and deposition? A) Mushroom rocks. B) Sand dunes. C) Loess. D) Arches. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arches. 32. The earth's crust is broken into a number of huge parts. They are called as A) Lithospheric plates. B) Metamorphic plates. C) Sedimentary plates. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithospheric plates. 33. What type of force is responsible for the formation of earthquakes? A) Exogenic force. B) Diastrophic force. C) Tectonic force. D) Endogenic force. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endogenic force. 34. The two outer layers of Earth are composed primarily of- A) Iron. B) Nickel. C) Rocky material. D) Liquid material. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rocky material. 35. From where does an earthquake start on land? A) Focus. B) Epicenter. C) Earthquake position. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epicenter. 36. The ..... on the earth's surface causes earthquake. A) Movements. B) Vibrations. C) Forces. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vibrations. 37. Our Earth always stays the same. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. Who proposed the theory of continental drift? A) Charles Richter. B) Alfred Wegener. C) None of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Richter. 39. People recycle, reduce and reuse to help ..... A) Earth. B) Bottles. C) Litter. D) Reduce. E) Recycling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth. 40. Magma, gases, and ashes can erupt through vents in the Earth's surface called- A) Hurricanes. B) Trenches. C) Volcanoes. D) Earthquakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanoes. 41. Example of Endogenic A) Volcano. B) River. C) Tsunami. D) Both A and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and C. 42. Glaciers carve out deep hollows. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. What is p waves? A) Tribe waves. B) Latitude waves. C) Logitudinal waves. D) Game waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logitudinal waves. 44. What are tectonic plates made of? A) Tectonic plates consist mainly of water and ice. B) Tectonic plates are composed of gases and dust. C) Tectonic plates are made of liquid magma. D) Tectonic plates are made of the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the crust and the upper mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tectonic plates are made of the Earth's lithosphere, which includes the crust and the upper mantle. 45. Chilka Lake is locked in Tamil Nadu? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 46. What do rivers deposit along their banks during flooding? A) Rocks and boulders. B) Layers of fine soil and other material. C) Magma and lava. D) Glacial debris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Layers of fine soil and other material. 47. As the ice from the glaciers melt they get filled up with water and forms the beautiful lakes in mountains. The material carried by the glacier such as rocks, sand, silt, etc. get deposited. What are these deposits called? A) Glacial Grooves. B) Glacial Acetic Acid. C) Glacial Kettle. D) Glacial Moraines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Glacial Moraines. 48. These fossils provide evidence of the activities of ancient organisms. A) Trace fossils. B) Petrified fossils. C) Molds. D) Amber. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trace fossils. 49. Highest water fall A) Angel fall. B) Niagara falls. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Angel fall. 50. The place in the crust where the movements starts is called the ..... A) Epicentre. B) Vibrations. C) Focus. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focus. 51. The lithosphere is broken into a number of plates A) Tectonic plates. B) Volcano. C) Glaciers. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tectonic plates. 52. When Earthquake hits bhuj? A) 26th January 2001. B) 15th August 2020. C) 06th November 2009. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 26th January 2001. 53. The place in the crust where the movement start is called A) Magma. B) Crater. C) Focus. D) Epicentre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Focus. 54. What is the cause of the slow movement of lithospheric plates? A) Movement of molten magma. B) Earthquakes. C) Wind erosion. D) Ocean currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement of molten magma. 55. Which of the following is not true about a mountain? A) They can be formed from volcanos. B) They can be destroyed by volcanoes. C) They form when plates smash into each other. D) All answers are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are true. 56. Why does wind erode the land in deserts more quickly? A) Sandstorms change the landscape. B) There are not many plants to hold the soil. C) The temperatures are very high. D) Rocks become tiny grains of sand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There are not many plants to hold the soil. 57. Granite, Obsidian and Pumice are examples of ..... rocks A) Igneous. B) Sedimentary. C) Metamorphic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Igneous. 58. The forces that work on the forces of the earth are called as ..... A) Frictional forces. B) Normal forces. C) Exogenic forces. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exogenic forces. 59. Seafloor spreading occurs at which type of boundary? A) Divergent. B) Convergent. C) Transform. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent. 60. When large rocks are broken down into smaller parts by physical and chemical means A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Both. D) Neither. 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