Unit 20 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

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Question 2:

Which internal layer of Earth has the smallest diameter? The ________.
a) Upper mantle
b) Inner core
c) Outer core
d) Lower mantle
e) Upper core

Question 3:

The Mohorovicic discontinuity is a contact plane between the crust and the ________.
a) core
b) mantle
c) inner core
d) asthenosphere
e) lithosphere

Question 4:

The crust and the upper mantle together form the ________.
a) asthenosphere
b) cryosphere
c) troposphere
d) outer core
e) lithosphere

Question 5:

Which of the following is not an orogenic belt?
a) The Alps
b) The Andes
c) The Himalayas
d) The African Shield
e) The Great Dividing Range

Question 6:

Which of the following is a gradational process?
a) Weathering
b) A volcano
c) Deposition
d) Mountain-building
e) Sublimation

Question 7:

Which of the following is not evidence of Earth’s internal structure?
a) A magnetic field
b) Volcanoes
c) Deep ocean basins
d) Temperature
e) All of the above.

Question 8:

Which of the following is not a layer of the inner Earth? The ________.
a) crust
b) molten upper mantle
c) solid lower mantle
d) liquid outer core
e) liquid inner core

Question 9:

When the Mohorovicic discontinuity was mapped, it was discovered that continents have ________.
a) shoots
b) roots
c) inner cores
d) mountains
e) exposed continental surfaces

Question 10:

SIMA is a high-density rock that consists of ________.
a) sulphur and magnesium
b) strontium and magma
c) silica and magma
d) silica and magnesium
e) sulphur and magma

Question 12:

Lithospheric plates are also known as ________.
a) basaltic plates
b) semantic plates
c) sialic plates
d) tectonic plates
e) dinner plates

Question 13:

The lithoprobe project’s aim was to investigate ________.
a) how North America was structurally put together
b) how South America was structurally put together
c) how deep the oceans are
d) the thickness of Greenland’s icesheet
e) how old the Canadian shield is

Question 14:

Gravity plays an important role in what gradational process?
a) Weathering
b) Erosion
c) Slope movement
d) Continental rise
e) Volcanic activity

Question 15:

Deep marginal trenches are absent from which area of the world’s ocean?
a) Pacific
b) North Atlantic
c) South Atlantic
d) Indian
e) Austrialian

Question 16:

The asthenosphere is a solid and rigid zone.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Lithospheric plates are the same thing as tectonic plates.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

P waves (compressional waves) move objects at right angles to their direction of movement.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

S waves (shear or shake waves) move objects at right angles to their direction of movement.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Erosion refers to a type of removal of weathered materials that takes longer than weathering.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

Each continent has a continental shield.
a) True
b) False

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