The Structure Of The Earth Quiz Questions And Answers
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Do you know about the structure of the earth? Our quiz with well-researched questions and answers' will test your knowledge about the same. The structure of the earth refers to the four layers of which the world is comprised. These include the crust, mantle, inner core, and outer core. Each layer has a different chemical composition and physical state and can influence the earth's surface life. Let's see if you can answer all the questions correctly in this quiz. Good Luck!
- 1.What are the four major layers on the Earth's core?
- A.
The inner core, the outer core, the mantle, the crust
- B.
The mantle, the outside core, the indoor core, the layers
- C.
There are no major layers
- D.
The crust, the butter, the mix
- 2.What is the Earth's core made up of?
- A.
Rock and Salt
- B.
Rock and Metal
- C.
Metal and Gold
- D.
Gold and Salt
- 3.What are the Tectonic Plates?
- A.
The Earth's cover
- B.
When plates slide past each other
- C.
When plates slide past each other
- D.
The Earth’s surface that consist of a number of rigid, but moving pieces or plates
- 4.What is the earth's mantle composed mainly of?
- A.
Olivine-rich rock
- B.
Salt rocks
- C.
Oily rocks
- D.
Sedimentary rocks
- 5.How thick is the mantle?
- A.
200,000
- B.
3,500
- C.
3,000
- D.
8,000
- 6.What is the only layer on the mantle?
- A.
The rocks
- B.
The crust
- C.
There is no layer
- D.
Plate tectonic
- 7.How do volcanoes form?
- A.
When the fire gets between the earth
- B.
When the magma erupts and it hardens and turns into a volcanoe
- C.
When magma from earth’s mantle breaks throughout the plates or oozes out at the edge
- D.
By earthquakes
- 8.What is a hot spot?
- A.
Every now and then there is a fragile spot in one of Earth’s plates and a stationary plume of magma erupts through it
- B.
The Earth’s surface that consist of a number of rigid, but moving pieces or plates
- C.
When plates slide past each other
- D.
When the volcanoes burst and release magma
- 9.What is subduction?
- A.
The Earth’s surface that consist of a number of rigid, but moving pieces or plates
- B.
When plates slide past each other
- C.
When two plates crash towards each other, one plate is forced under the other. The underlying plate melts into magma and can erupt through the overlying plate as a volcanoe
- 10.What are the agents of erosion?
- A.
Blood, sweat, and tears
- B.
Water, wind, ice, and waves
- C.
Water, ice, Popsicle, and rocks
- D.
Wind, soil and plates tectonic
- 11.What is Erosion?
- A.
Known as weathering breaks up rocks so that they can be carried away
- B.
The temperature in the core is hotter than the Sun's surface.
- C.
The shifting of the poles
- D.
Have hot magma inside their entire length
- 12.What do mid-ocean ridges have?
- A.
Have shallow valleys along their entire length
- B.
Have deep valleys along most of the length
- C.
Have deep valleys along their entire length
- 13.Whats another name for diverging boundaries? Diverging Boundaries
- A.
There is no other name
- B.
Spending centers
- C.
Loose centers
- 14.What are sliding boundaries?
- A.
When plates slide past each other
- B.
When plates collide into each other
- C.
When plates move away from each other
- 15.What does Converging Boundaries(Collision) cause?
- A.
Causes a form of converging boundaries that plunges down under another overriding plate.
- B.
Causes the lithosphere at the boundary to be pushed upward in a mountain or range.
- C.
Causes a break or crack in the earth’s crust