This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 10 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mixture of rock, sediment, and organic matter ..... A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Soil. D) Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Soil. 2. The deepest hole ever digged reaches A) Just a few kilometers of the crust. B) The mantle. C) The outer core. D) The inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Just a few kilometers of the crust. 3. Which is a vertical section of soil that shows the layers? A) Humus. B) Soil profile. C) Parent rock. D) Soil horizon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soil profile. 4. What is made of dark, dense rock such as basalt? A) Oceanic Crust. B) Continental Crust. C) Lithosphere. D) Asthenosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oceanic Crust. 5. Earth's plates are a ..... solid material. Earth's mantle is a ..... solid material. A) Soft; hard. B) Hard; soft. C) Soft; soft. D) Hard; hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hard; soft. 6. Sudden and violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action A) Earthquakes. B) Mountains. C) Hotspot Volcanoes. D) Trench. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earthquakes. 7. Which layer of the Earth is primarily involved in the creation of new oceanic crust? A) Lithosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Outer Core. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asthenosphere. 8. What evidence do we have that shows evidence that the plates have moved? A) Similar rocks on different continents. B) Fossils from the same land animals on different continents and the continents fit together like a puzzle. C) Different fossils on different continents. D) The continents all have a similar shape and the fossils are the same on every continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fossils from the same land animals on different continents and the continents fit together like a puzzle. 9. The core's temperature is around ..... A) 3000C. B) 4000C. C) 5000C. D) 6000C. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5000C. 10. Layer that surrounds Earth. Made of continental and oceanic rock A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust. 11. If magma increases in temperature (get hot) what will happen? A) It moves down (sinks). B) It moves up (rises). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It moves up (rises). 12. Weather patterns such as wind, temperature, air pressure, and clouds belong towhich of Earth's spheres? A) Geosphere. B) Biosphere. C) Atmosphere. D) Hydrosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atmosphere. 13. The Earth's thinnest layer A) Upper Mantle. B) Lithosphere. C) Inner Core. D) Discontinuities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lithosphere. 14. It is made up of melted rock A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mantle. 15. Formed when animal tracks and imprints of plants are made in sediment ..... A) Weathering. B) Sediment. C) Fossils. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fossils. 16. The process by which water, wind, ice, and changes in temperature break down rock into fragments called sediments. A) Deposition. B) Erosion. C) Weathering. D) Igneous Rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weathering. 17. We have dug into the core of the Earth. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. What are the 3 layers of the Mantle A) Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere. B) Basalt, granite, igneous. C) Crust, mantle, core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere. 19. When a seismic wave goes through the layers it ..... A) Changes speed. B) Increases energy. C) Reverses directions. D) Stops moving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Changes speed. 20. Why is understanding tectonic plate movement important to understanding our Earth? A) It lets us know why we have seasons. B) It explains why there are so many countries. C) It explains how landforms were made and why earthquakes happen. D) It explains why the weather changes so quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It explains how landforms were made and why earthquakes happen. 21. What is the primary composition of Earth's mantle? A) Silicon and oxygen. B) Iron and nickel. C) Carbon and hydrogen. D) Helium and neon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silicon and oxygen. 22. The soft layer of the mantle on which pieces of lithosphere move is called A) Mesosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Asthenosphere. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asthenosphere. 23. This land formation occurs at a divergent continental/ continental boundary. A) Mid ocean ridge. B) Deep ocean trench. C) Pacific hot spot. D) Rift valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rift valley. 24. Where does the heat come from that drives this convection current in the mantle? A) The sun. B) The crust. C) The mantle. D) The core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The core. 25. The thickest layer of Earth A) Core. B) Mantle. C) Crust. D) None of the above. 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