This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 7 > Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 7 Geography Chapter 3 Our Changing Earth Quiz 11 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The three groups of rocks are classified by A) How they form. B) Color. C) Grain size. D) Chemical Composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How they form. 2. Carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere creates a A) Green house effect. B) Carbon effect. C) Earth effect. D) Dioxide effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green house effect. 3. Earth's crust can be compared to what part of an egg? A) Yolk. B) Egg white. C) Shell. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shell. 4. What is the name of the instrument used for measuring earthquake? A) Thermometer. B) Weighing machine. C) Seismograph. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seismograph. 5. What is the name of the instrument used for measuring earthquakes? A) Seismograph. B) Thermometer. C) Anemometer. D) Barometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismograph. 6. What are all the agents of deposition? A) Water and ice. B) Water, wind, ice. C) Water, wind, ice, gravity, waves. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Water, wind, ice, gravity, waves. 7. Richter scale, the instrument that measures the earthquake was invented by who? A) Bobby Richter. B) Thomas Richter. C) Charles Richter. D) Luke Richter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Richter. 8. What structures are formed when fine and light sand carried by wind is deposited in large areas? A) Estuaries. B) Glacial moraines. C) Sand dunes. D) Loess. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loess. 9. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface. A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Deposition. D) Exfoliation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weathering. 10. Spring tides and neap tides occur in patterns governed by the A) Phases of the moon. B) Seasons (fall, winter, etc.). C) Surface currents. D) Deep sea currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phases of the moon. 11. When the lithospheric plates move the surface of the earth vibrates, the vibrations can travel all around the earth these vibrations are called A) Glaciers. B) Earthquake. C) Volcano. D) Waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earthquake. 12. What are endogenic forces also known as? A) Internal forces. B) External forces. C) Exogenic forces. D) Geological forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal forces. 13. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity is called an ..... A) Divergent boundary. B) Weathering. C) Earthquake. D) Fault. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earthquake. 14. A civil engineer would want to know about faults because: A) They want to observe eroded landscapes before building. B) They want to mark a volcano on the map. C) They need to know where plate boundaries are located. D) They need to measure the number of earthquakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They need to know where plate boundaries are located. 15. The ..... is the point within the Earth where an earthquake originates, while the ..... is the point on the Earth's surface directly above it. A) Focus. B) Epicenter. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focus. 16. Metamorphic rock is formed by- A) Compaction. B) Heat and pressure. C) Cementation. D) Melting magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heat and pressure. 17. It is a circular opening through which hot molten material erupt suddenly. This opening is called A) Vent. B) Lava. C) Mantle. D) Crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vent. 18. 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 A) Moraines. B) Flood plains. C) Weathering. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erosion. 19. Which set of words are related to igneous rocks? A) Layers, fossils, decaying plants and animals. B) Heat, pressure, chemical changes. C) Magma, crystals, heating and cooling. D) Sand, sediment, fossils. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magma, crystals, heating and cooling. 20. Exogenic force Example: A) Volcano. B) Earth quake. C) Glaciers. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glaciers. 21. Which is not a erosional feature of sea waves? A) Sea cave. B) Cliff. C) Beach. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beach. 22. A long deep crack in the rock or in the earth A) Fissure. B) Landforms. C) Exogenic forces. D) Circus Pacific Belt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fissure. 23. The narrow elongated deposits of sand is known as? A) Island. B) Beach. C) Peninsula. D) Sand bars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sand bars. 24. Weathering is a slow change. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. Transfer of thermal energy caused by the rising of hotter less dense fluids and the sinking of cooler more dense fluids: A) Convection. B) Conduction. C) Radiation. D) Density. 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