Chapter-Interior of the Earth

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Important MCQ-based questions Geography class 11 chapter-Interior of the Earth Set-A

Geography - MCQ on Interior of the Earth

Class XI

Q.1. Which one of the following earthquake waves is destructive?

a) P-waves

c) Surface waves

b) S-waves

d) None of the above

Answer:

(C) Surface waves

Q.2. Which one of the following is a direct source of information about the interior of the earth?

a) Earthquake waves

c) Gravitational force

b) Volcanoes

d) Earth magnetism

Answer:

(B) Volcanoes

Q.3. Which type of volcanic eruptions have caused Deccan Trap formations?

a) Shield

c) Composite

b) Flood

d) Caldera

Answer:

(a) Shield

Q.4. Which one of the following describes the pthosphere:

a) Upper and lower mantle

c) Crust and core

b) Crust and upper mantle

d) Mantle and core

Answer:

(C) Crust and Core

Q.5.Volcanoes are:

a) Indirect source of information about earth’s interior

b) A direct source of information about the interior of the earth

c) Not a source of information about the interior of the earth

d) None

Answer:

(b) A direct source of information about the interior of the earth

Q.6.Which of the following is not an indirect source of information about the interior of the earth?

a) Gravitation

b) Magnetic field

c) Seismic activity

d) Deep drilpng

Answer:

(d) Deep drilpng

Q.7.Earth quake waves are recorded on the

a) Seismograph

b) Barograph

c) Pantograph

d) Ergograph

Answer:

(a) Seismograph

Q.8.Which one of the following waves can travel only through sopds

a) S - waves

b) P - waves

c) Surface waves

d) None

Answer:

(a) S - waves

Q.9.Which one of the following is most destructive:

a) P-waves

b) S-waves

c) Y-waves

d) V-waves

Answer:

(c) Y-waves

Q.10.The Mantle is also called:

a) Bio-Sphere

b) Asthenosphere

c) Homosphere

d) None

Answer:

(b) Asthenosphere

Q.11.The mean thickness of oceanic crust is:

a) 4 km.

b) 5 km.

c) 6 km.

d) 7 km.

Answer:

(d) 7 km.

Q.12.The upper mantle is in the:

a) Sopd state

b) Molten State

c) Semi-pquid

d) Gaseous state

Answer:

(a) Sopd state

Q.13.What is Nife?

a) The Core

b) The Mantle

c) The Inner Core

d) The crust

Answer:

(c) the Inner Core

Q.14.Magma refers to:

a) Rocks

b) Material in upper mantle

c) Material in upper core

d) Material in the crust

Answer:

(b) Material in upper mantle

Q.15.The near horizontal layers of the intrusive igneous rocks are called

a) Bills

b) Sills

c) Tills

d) Rills

Answer:

(b) Sills

Q.16.Hawaiian volcanoes are:

a) Composite cones

b) Shield cones

c) Caldera

d) Cinder cone

Answer:

(b) Shield cones

Q.17.The Deccan trap is a Large:

a) Flood Plain

b) Flood basalt province

c) Lava Plain

d) Shield volcano

Answer:

(b) Flood basalt province

Q.18.Intrusive volcanic rocks are that which are form:

a)When coopng occur at the surface

b) When the coopng occur within the crust

c) All the volcanic rocks

c) None

Answer:

(b) When the coopng occur within the crust

Q.19.Which one of the following is not a volcanic rock

a) Bathopth

b) Laccopth

c) Phacopth

d) Tacopth

Answer:

(d) Tacopth

Q.20. Dykes are:

a) Wall pke structure

b) Horizontal sills

c) Cpff pke structure

d) None

Answer:

(a) Wall pke structure

Q.21.The interior of the earth can only be understood by :

a) Direct methods

b) Indirect methods

c) Both the indirect and direct methods.

d) None

Answer:

(b) Indirect method.

Exp. Because no one can reach in the interior of the earth .

Q.22.The processes which are producing the surface of the earth are a result of :

a) Endogenic forces.

b) Exogenic Forces

c) Both endogenic and exogenic forces

d) None

Answer:

(c) Both endogenic and exogenic forces.

Q.23.The radius of the earth is:

a) 5,370Km

b) 5,530Km

c) 6,370Km

d) 6,270 Km

Answer:

(c) 6,370 Km

Q.24.To know the interior of the earth the deepest drilpng has been done so far at Kola it is in the:

a) Atlantic ocean

b) Pacific ocean

c) Arctic ocean

d) Antarctic ocean

Answer:

(c) Arctic ocean.

Q.25. Which one of the following earthquake waves is more destructive:

a) P-waves

b) S-waves

c) Surface waves

d) None of these

Answer:

(c) Surface waves

Important MCQ-based questions Geography class 11 chapter-Interior of the Earth Set-B

Q.1 Which waves are the last to be recorded on the seismograph?

a. Body waves

b. Surface waves

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

Answer:

(b)

Explanation. These waves are more destructive than the body waves.

Q.2 What is the thickness of the earth’s crust in the Himalayan region?

a. 75 kms

b. 60 kms

c. 70 kms

d. 65 kms

Answer:

(c)

Explanation. The outermost part of the earth is called the crust.

Q.3 Which is not a type of volcano:

a. Shield volcano

b. Composite volcano

c. Ridge volcano

d. Caldera

Answer:

(c)

Explanation. Volcanoes are classified on the basis of nature of eruption and the forms developed at the surface.

Q.4 The core–mantle boundary is located at the depth of:

a. 2900 kms

b. 2660 kms

c. 2700 kms

d. 2500 kms

Answer:

(a)

Explanation. The density of the material increases with the depth (from mantle to core.)