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GK Olympiad Our Changing Earth — practice questions

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The lithosphere is broken into large moving pieces known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Lithospheric plates move because of the circular movement of:Read the answer and worked solution →Forces that act deep inside the earth are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Forces that work on the surface of the earth are called:Read the answer and worked solution →An opening in the earth's crust through which molten material erupts is a:Read the answer and worked solution →The place inside the crust where an earthquake movement starts is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The point on the surface directly above the focus of an earthquake is the:Read the answer and worked solution →Damage from an earthquake is usually greatest at a place that is:Read the answer and worked solution →A massive earthquake of 6.9 on the Richter scale struck Bhuj town in the year:Read the answer and worked solution →The breaking up of rocks on the earth's surface is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The wearing away of the landscape by water, wind and ice is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Where a river tumbles steeply over hard rock it forms a:Read the answer and worked solution →Large bends made by a river as it twists across the plain are called:Read the answer and worked solution →A meander loop that gets cut off from the river forms a lake shaped like an:Read the answer and worked solution →Fine soil dropped by a river in flood builds a flat fertile area called a:Read the answer and worked solution →The raised banks built up along a river by repeated flooding are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Hollows worn by sea waves into a rocky coast become:Read the answer and worked solution →When the roof of a sea arch collapses, the wall like remains are called:Read the answer and worked solution →A steep rocky coast rising almost vertically above the sea is a sea:Read the answer and worked solution →Sediments dropped by sea waves along the shore build up a:Read the answer and worked solution →In deserts, wind erodes the lower part of a rock more than the top, making a:Read the answer and worked solution →Very fine sand carried far by wind and laid down over large areas is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the river landformsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the earthquake wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the landform gatesRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the landformsRead the answer and worked solution →Inside or outside forcesRead the answer and worked solution →Sort the landformsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Changing earth bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The lithosphere is broken into large moving pieces known as:

  1. Plates
  2. Planes
  3. Prisms
  4. Pillars
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Correct answer: A. Plates

1. The solid outer shell is not one single piece. 2. It is split into huge slabs that drift slowly. 3. Those slabs are plates. _Source: syllabus Our Environment, Class VII, Chapter 3, Our Changing Earth._

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Lithospheric plates move because of the circular movement of:

  1. Moving rivers
  2. Molten magma
  3. Melting snow
  4. Monsoon winds
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Correct answer: B. Molten magma

1. Something beneath the plates drags them along. 2. Hot material circulates inside the earth. 3. That material is molten magma. _Source: syllabus Our Environment, Class VII, Chapter 3, Our Changing Earth._

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Forces that act deep inside the earth are called:

  1. Endogenic
  2. Exogenic
  3. Ecologic
  4. Economic
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Correct answer: A. Endogenic

1. Forces are grouped by where they act. 2. Those acting within the interior get one name. 3. They are endogenic forces. _Source: syllabus Our Environment, Class VII, Chapter 3, Our Changing Earth._

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