This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 2 The Earth'S Structure Quiz 37 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which layer of Earth is made by rock that is plastic, or soft enough to flow? A) Inner Core. B) Lithosphere. C) Asthenosphere. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asthenosphere. 2. Solid rock that extends to Earth's core: A) Upper Mantle. B) Lower Mantle. C) Outer Core. D) Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lower Mantle. 3. What is the cause of the daily rising and falling of tides on Earth? A) Revolution. B) Rotation. C) Tidal forces. D) Atmospheric pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotation. 4. The crust that makes up the continents-the land A) Tectonic plates. B) Atmosphere. C) Continental crust. D) Oceanic crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continental crust. 5. Which of these is broken into plates? A) Mesosphere. B) Asthenosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 6. Which of these is an example of biological environment? A) Temperature. B) Light. C) Water. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 7. Volcano that probably will not erupt again A) Extinct volcano. B) Composite volcano. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extinct volcano. 8. A LIMITED number of Elements make up the Earth's Crust. True or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Which of Earth's layer is the most dense? A) Crust. B) Mantle. C) Outer core. D) Inner core. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inner core. 10. What is the name of the process by which heat is transferred from the Earth's core to the surface? A) Condensation. B) Sublimation. C) Radiation. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection. 11. Which of the Earth's major divisions in the thinnest? A) A atmosphere. B) B crust. C) C inner core. D) D mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B crust. 12. Which type of rock as large crystals? A) Extrusive igneous. B) Intrusive igneous. C) Metamorphic. D) Sedimentary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intrusive igneous. 13. The area around the Pacific Ocean where lots of earthquakes and volcanoes happen is called the ..... A) Ring of Earth. B) Ring of Fire. C) Ring of Stone. D) Ring of Diamond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ring of Fire. 14. The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean are both results of this type of plate boundary-where new land is being created! A) Divergent-dividing. B) Transform-sliding. C) Convergent-colliding. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divergent-dividing. 15. What is the bottom of the mantle called? A) Volcano. B) Core-mantle boundary. C) Geographic information system. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Core-mantle boundary. 16. The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface. A) Crust. B) Core. C) Ridge. D) Mantle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust. 17. What type of rock makes up the continental crust? A) Basalt. B) Granite. C) Obsidian. D) Quartz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Granite. 18. What is the Earth's outer layer made of? A) Lithosphere. B) Mantle. C) Core. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crust. 19. How is the crust DIFFERENT from the other layers of the Earth? A) It is hotter. B) It is thinner. C) It is mostly liquid. D) It is under pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is thinner. 20. A geologist is studying three layers of sedimentary rock in an area. The layers have not shifted from their original positions. The geologist records the relative ages of the rocks. The bottom layer is listed as the oldest. The top layer is listed as the youngest. What did the geologist use to determine the relative ages of the rocks? A) Mineral content. B) Radioactive decay. C) The law of superposition. D) The principle of unconformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The law of superposition. 21. In sea-floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts ..... A) Along the edges of all the continents. B) In deep-ocean trenches. C) Along mid-ocean ridges. D) At the north and south poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Along mid-ocean ridges. 22. What is Caldera? A) Pipe-like structure in between the Volcano. B) Narrow Crater. C) Wide Crater. D) Fissures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wide Crater. 23. How do scientists INDIRECTLY learn about Earth's interior? A) Seismic waves. B) Rock samples. C) Tsunamis. D) Volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismic waves. 24. Which two layers make up the lithosphere? A) Crust and the Mantle. B) Crust and the Inner Core. C) Mantle and Outer Core. D) Outer Core and Inner Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crust and the Mantle. 25. How does fossil evidence support Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift? A) Similar fossils are found along continental margins that appear to join together. B) Fossils are found in areas where the present-day climate could not have supported the organisms that made the fossils. C) Similar fossils of giant, land-dwelling dinosaurs are found on continents separated by oceans. D) All of the above. 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