This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 21 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most damaging type of waves A) Love waves. B) Rayleigh waves. C) Primary waves. D) Secondary waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love waves. 2. Most ..... occur along fault. A) Tsunami. B) Volcano. C) Earthquakes. D) Non of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquakes. 3. Which of the following is not a component of the physical environment? A) Light. B) Water. C) Plants. D) Temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plants. 4. ..... rocks are formed when magma cools and solidifies on reaching the surface A) Intrusive. B) Extrusive. C) Igneous. D) Metamorphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extrusive. 5. Place the processes in the formation of sedimentary rock in correct order. A) Weatheringcompactiondepositionerosion. B) Weatheringerosioncompactiondeposition. C) Depositioncompactionerosionweathering. D) Weatheringerosiondepositioncompaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weatheringerosiondepositioncompaction. 6. What is the process called when one tectonic plate is forced under another? A) Subduction. B) Convection. C) Divergence. D) Convergence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subduction. 7. The iron and nickel that comprise (make up) the inner and outer core are ..... in the inner core, but ..... in the outer core. A) Solid, gaseous. B) Liquid, solid. C) Solid, liquid. D) Liquid, gaseous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solid, liquid. 8. Earth's plates are ..... A) Constantly moving and changing the face of the earth. B) Never moves. C) Moves seldom and very fast. D) Moves when it feels like it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Constantly moving and changing the face of the earth. 9. Which best describes a hot spot? A) Plates move together. B) Plates move apart. C) Plates slide past each other. D) Activity occurs away from a boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Activity occurs away from a boundary. 10. Which of the following best describes the lithosphere? A) A rigid layer composed of the crust and upper mantle. B) A liquid layer beneath the crust. C) A gaseous layer surrounding the Earth. D) A layer of molten rock in the mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rigid layer composed of the crust and upper mantle. 11. List the 5 physical layers in order from outermost to innermost. A) Crust, mantle, inner core, outer core, mesosphere. B) Litho, meso, astheno, inner core, outer core. C) Litho, astheno, meso, outer core, inner core. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litho, astheno, meso, outer core, inner core. 12. What is the order of the main layers of Earth? A) Core, mantle, crust. B) Crust, mantle, core. C) Mantel, core, crust. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crust, mantle, core. 13. The San Andreas Fault is an example of A) Collision. B) Transform boundary. C) Subduction zone. D) Divergent boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transform boundary. 14. Which layer of the Earth is the thickest? A) The crust. B) The core. C) The mantle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mantle. 15. What is the innermost layer of the Earth made primarily of iron and nickel? A) Crust. B) Inner Core. C) Mantle. D) Outer Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inner Core. 16. About 80% of the world's earthquakes occur where? A) Alpide belt. B) Indian Ocean Belt. C) Circum-Pacific belt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circum-Pacific belt. 17. Which layer of the earth is completely Liquid? A) Crust. B) Outer Core. C) Mantle. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outer Core. 18. Which layer of the core is liquid? A) Inner core. B) Outer core. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outer core. 19. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions A) Divergent Boundary. B) Hotspot Volcanoes. C) Convergent Boundary. D) Transform Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transform Boundary. 20. Two plates DIVIDING. A) Lithosphere. B) Transform Boundary. C) Subduction. D) Divergent Boundary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Divergent Boundary. 21. Solid, rigid layer that is broken up into 12 "puzzle pieces" that float on an unstable molten layer of the mantle A) Continental Drift. B) Hotspot Volcanoes. C) Mariana Trench. D) Tectonic Plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tectonic Plates. 22. What is the hot, convecting layer that is located directly under the crust? A) Mantle. B) Crust. C) Inner core. D) Outer core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mantle. 23. Sphere where life exists together: A) Hydrosphere. B) Lithosphere. C) Atmopshere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biosphere. 24. What is the boundary where plates slide past each other? A) Transform Boundary. B) Convergent Boundary. C) Divergent Boundary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transform Boundary. 25. How hot is the core? A) 4000 degrees Celsius. B) 4500 degrees Celsius. C) 3500 degrees Celsius. D) 5000 degrees Celsius. 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