Question 1: What is the uppermost layer over the earth’s surface called?
- A) Mantle
- B) Core
- C) Crust
- D) Lithosphere
Answer: C) Crust
Question 2: What are the main mineral constituents of the continental mass?
- A) Silica and iron
- B) Silica and magnesium
- C) Silica and alumina
- D) Silica and nickel
Answer: C) Silica and alumina
Question 3: What is the thickness of the oceanic crust?
- A) 35 km
- B) 5 km
- C) 10 km
- D) 50 km
Answer: B) 5 km
Question 4: What lies just beneath the crust of the earth?
- A) Outer core
- B) Inner core
- C) Mantle
- D) Lithosphere
Answer: C) Mantle
Question 5: What is the innermost layer of the earth called?
- A) Crust
- B) Mantle
- C) Lithosphere
- D) Core
Answer: D) Core
Question 6: What is the core mainly made up of?
- A) Silica and magnesium
- B) Nickel and iron
- C) Silica and alumina
- D) Iron and magnesium
Answer: B) Nickel and iron
Question 7: What is a rock?
- A) A type of plant
- B) A type of mineral
- C) A natural mass of mineral matter that makes up the earth’s crust
- D) A type of soil
Answer: C) A natural mass of mineral matter that makes up the earth’s crust
Question 8: How are igneous rocks formed?
- A) By cooling of molten magma
- B) By compression of sediments
- C) By chemical reactions
- D) By erosion
Answer: A) By cooling of molten magma
Question 9: What are the two types of igneous rocks?
- A) Intrusive and extrusive
- B) Primary and secondary
- C) Hard and soft
- D) Large and small
Answer: A) Intrusive and extrusive
Question 10: What is the Deccan plateau made up of?
- A) Granite
- B) Sandstone
- C) Basalt
- D) Limestone
Answer: C) Basalt
Question 11: What are smaller particles of rocks called?
- A) Gravel
- B) Sand
- C) Sediments
- D) Soil
Answer: C) Sediments
Question 12: How are sedimentary rocks formed?
- A) By cooling of molten magma
- B) By compression and hardening of sediments
- C) By melting of igneous rocks
- D) By erosion
Answer: B) By compression and hardening of sediments
Question 13: What type of rocks can contain fossils?
- A) Igneous rocks
- B) Metamorphic rocks
- C) Sedimentary rocks
- D) All of the above
Answer: C) Sedimentary rocks
Question 14: What changes igneous and sedimentary rocks into metamorphic rocks?
- A) Cooling
- B) Melting
- C) Heat and pressure
- D) Erosion
Answer: C) Heat and pressure
Question 15: What is the process of transformation of rocks from one type to another called?
- A) Rock formation
- B) Rock erosion
- C) Rock cycle
- D) Rock deposition
Answer: C) Rock cycle
Question 16: What is the main use of hard rocks?
- A) For making food
- B) For making roads, houses, and buildings
- C) For making clothes
- D) For making medicines
Answer: B) For making roads, houses, and buildings
Question 17: What does the word “igneous” mean in Latin?
- A) Water
- B) Fire
- C) Earth
- D) Air
Answer: B) Fire
Question 18: Which rock is an example of an intrusive igneous rock?
- A) Basalt
- B) Sandstone
- C) Granite
- D) Limestone
Answer: C) Granite
Question 19: What is the radius of the earth?
- A) 6371 km
- B) 7000 km
- C) 8000 km
- D) 9000 km
Answer: A) 6371 km
Question 20: What are fossils?
- A) Living plants and animals
- B) Remains of dead plants and animals trapped in the layers of rocks
- C) Types of minerals
- D) Types of soils
Answer: B) Remains of dead plants and animals trapped in the layers of rocks
Question 21: What percentage of the earth’s volume is made up of the mantle?
- A) 1%
- B) 15%
- C) 84%
- D) 50%
Answer: C) 84%
Question 22: Which type of rock is marble?
- A) Igneous
- B) Sedimentary
- C) Metamorphic
- D) Fossil
Answer: C) Metamorphic
Question 23: Which type of rock is sandstone?
- A) Igneous
- B) Sedimentary
- C) Metamorphic
- D) Fossil
Answer: B) Sedimentary
Question 24: Which rock is made up of grains of sand?
- A) Basalt
- B) Granite
- C) Sandstone
- D) Limestone
Answer: C) Sandstone
Question 25: What are minerals?
- A) Man-made substances
- B) Naturally occurring substances with certain physical properties and definite chemical composition
- C) Types of rocks
- D) Types of soils
Answer: B) Naturally occurring substances with certain physical properties and definite chemical composition
Question 26: What type of rock changes into marble under heat and pressure?
- A) Limestone
- B) Granite
- C) Basalt
- D) Sandstone
Answer: A) Limestone
Question 27: What type of rock changes into slate under heat and pressure?
- A) Sandstone
- B) Granite
- C) Clay
- D) Basalt
Answer: C) Clay
Question 28: What is the deepest mine in the world located in South Africa?
- A) 2 km deep
- B) 4 km deep
- C) 6 km deep
- D) 8 km deep
Answer: B) 4 km deep
Question 29: What are the three layers of the earth?
- A) Crust, Mantle, Core
- B) Crust, Lithosphere, Mantle
- C) Mantle, Core, Lithosphere
- D) Core, Lithosphere, Crust
Answer: A) Crust, Mantle, Core
Question 30: What is the term for the molten magma that comes out of volcanoes and solidifies on the earth’s surface?
- A) Lava
- B) Sediment
- C) Granite
- D) Fossil
Answer: A) Lava