Class 9 Geography Chapter 2: Shaping the Earth's Surface Objective Questions with Answers
Multiple Choice Questions:
1. Which theory explains the moment of the Earth’s crust?
a) Theory of relativity
b) Plate tactonics
c) Big Bang Theory
d) Theory of evolution
2. Who gave the theory of plate tectonics?
a) W. J Morgan
b) Alfred Wagner
c) Charles Darwin
d) Newton
3. What are tectonic plates?
a) Rivers flowing on the Earth surface
b) Layers of the atmosphere
c) Large and small pieces of the earth’s outer layer
d) underground water
4. Which layer lies below the crust and helps plates move slowly?
a) Atmosphere
b) semi molton layer
c) hydrosphere
d) biosphere
5. Which are the 3 main layers of the Earth?
a) crust, mental core
b) soil, water, air
c) mountains, plains, plateus
d) rivers, glaciers and winds
6. What causes conviction currents in the mental?
a) heat from the Earth core
b) rainfall on mountains
c) wind moment
d) ocean tights
7. What happens at the convergent plate boundary?
a) Plates move away from each other
b) Plates slide past each other
c) Plates move towards each other
d) Plates stop moving completely
8. Which landform may form when two continental platess collide?
a) fold mountain
b) beach
c) delta
d) sand dunes
9. What happens at the divergent plate boundary?
a) Plates move towards each other
b) Plates move away from each other
c)Plate disappear
d) Plates remain fixed,
10. which feature is commonly formed at divergent boundaries?
a) Mid- ocean ridge
b) sea stack
c) oxbow lake
d) Moraine
11. What happens at the transform boundary?
a) plates move apart
b) plates collide strongly
c) plates slide past each other
d) plates dissolve in magua
12. Which reagion is known for many active volcanoes and Earthquakes?
a) Thar desert
b) Pecific ring of fire
c) Amazon basin
d) Sahara dessert?
13. What is weathering?
a) carrying soil from one place to another
b) breaking down of rocks at the same place
c) formation of clouds
d) moment of tectonic plates,
14. Which type of weathering occurs due to heating, cooling, water, wind and ice expansion?
a) chemical weathering
b) physical weathering
c) biological weathering
d) coastal weathering
15. Which weathering changes the chemical composition of rocks?
a) physical weathering
b) wind weathering
c) chemical weather
d) glacial weathering
16. Plant roots widening cracks in rocks is an example of:
a) biological weathering
b) chemical weathering
c) coastal erosion
d) deposition.
17. What is eroson?
a) breaking rocks without movement
b) wearing away and removal of rock and soil
c) cooling of magma
d) formation of tectonic plates,
18. Which process includes erosion, transportation and disposition?
a) gradition
b) rotation
c) evaporation
d) condensation
19. Which of the following is an agent of gradition?
a) constant water
b) running water
c) photosynthesis
d) compass
20. In which course of a river are waterfalls generally formed?
a) upper course
b) middle course
c) lower course
d) delta region only.