Our Changing Earth

What causes the movement of lithospheric plates?

• Volcanic eruption

• Molten magma inside the earth

• Erosion and deposition

The different agents of erosion :

• water

• magma

• wind

• ice

The earth movements are divided on the basis of the forces that cause them. These forces are

• Extrogenic forces

• Endogenic forces

• Edogenic forces

• Exogenic forces

An earthquake measuring ____ is a major one

• Less than 2.0

• 5.0

• 6.0

• 7.0 or higher

Which is the highest waterfall and where is it located ?

• Angel Falls of Venezuela, North America

• Victoria Falls, Africa

• Angel Falls of Venezuela, South America

• Niagara falls, border of USA and Canada

The steep rocky coast rising almost vertically above the sea water is called

• erosion

• sea cave

• beach

• sea cliff

What is the name of the instrument used for measuring earthquake?

• Richter Scale

• All of these

• Thermometer

• Seismograph

The material carried by the glacier such as rocks big and small, sand and silt gets deposited. These deposits form

Which is NOT a landform formed due to the wind in the desert ?

• Stacks

• Loess

• Sand dunes

• Mushroom rocks

Landform formed by the deposition of sediments by the sea waves.