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Our Changing Earth Social Scince Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What do you mean by erosion?

a)

Moving of plates

b)

Type of exogenic forces

c)

Wearing away of landscape

d)

None of these

2.

Which one of the following forces originates in the interior of the earth?

a)

Endogenic forces

b)

Exogenic forces

c)

Both (a) and (b)

d)

None of these

3.

As the river enters the plain it twists and turns forming large bends known as

a)

Meanders

b)

Leeves

c)

Waterfalls

d)

Delta

4.

The strength of the earthquake increases away from the centre

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Name These

a)

A. Sea Arch B. Stack C. Sea Caves

b)

A.Stack B. Water C. Sea Caves

c)

A. Sea Caves B. Sea Arch C. Stack

d)

None Of The Above.

6.
What caused this landform ?
a)
water
b)
glacier
c)
wind
7.

The wearing away or breaking down of rocks by agents present in the atmosphere like temperature,moisture and frost

a)

Weathering

b)

Erosion

8.

................... is an Instruments which records the intensity of the Earthquake waves

a)

Richter Scale

b)

Seimograph

c)

Barometer

d)

none of these

9.

The place of origin of an Earthquake is called

a)

Epicentre

b)

Focus

c)

Waves

10.

......................... is the sudden shaking of the Earth's crust

a)

Surface Waves

b)

Earth Quake

c)

Exogenic Shake

d)

none of these

11.
A glacier is a slowly moving mass of __________.
a)
rock
b)
wind
c)
ice 
d)
sediment
12.
The process that breaks down rocks into sediment is called...
a)
erosion
b)
a landslide
c)
weathering
d)
an avalanche
13.
The process that carries sediment away from one place to another is called...
a)
erosion
b)
weathering
c)
waterfall
d)
landslide
14.

Which is not an erosional feature of sea waves?

a)

Sea cave

b)

Beaches

c)

Cliff

d)

Sea stacks

15.

The depositional feature of glacier is:

a)

Flood plain

b)

Beach

c)

Moraine

16.

Ox bow lakes are found in:

a)

Glaciers

b)

River valleys

c)

Deserts

17.

Mushrooms rocks are found in:

a)

Deserts

b)

River valleys

c)

Glaciers

18.

The raised bank on either side of a river

a)

flood plain

b)

levees

c)

estuary

d)

meander

19.
Which landform is created by deposition of sediments at the mouth of a river?
a)
Dune
b)
Canyon
c)
Delta
d)
Glacier
20.

When two tectonic plates move against each other and cause the ground to shake.

a)

volcano

b)

earthquake

c)

tornado

d)

tectonic plate