Question 1

What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates are moving apart?

Accepted Answer

Divergent boundary

Answer

Transform boundary

Answer

Convergent boundary

Answer

Conservative boundary

Question 2

What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates collide and one plate is forced beneath the other?

Accepted Answer

Convergent boundary

Answer

Conservative boundary

Answer

Divergent boundary

Answer

Transform boundary

Question 3

What type of plate boundary occurs when two plates slide past each other horizontally?

Accepted Answer

Transform boundary

Answer

Convergent boundary

Answer

Conservative boundary

Answer

Divergent boundary

Question 4

What type of plate boundary is characterized by plates sliding past each other horizontally?

Accepted Answer

Transform boundary

Answer

Divergent boundary

Answer

Convergent boundary

Answer

Subduction boundary

Question 5

Which type of seismic wave causes the most damage during an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

S-waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

P-waves

Answer

Surface waves

Question 6

Which type of seismic wave travels fastest?

Accepted Answer

P-waves

Answer

Surface waves

Answer

S-waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Question 7

Which type of seismic wave is responsible for the shaking felt during an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

Surface waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

S-waves

Answer

P-waves

Question 8

Which type of seismic wave travels only through the Earth's crust?

Accepted Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

P-waves

Answer

S-waves

Answer

Surface waves

Question 9

Which type of seismic wave can travel through both solids and liquids?

Accepted Answer

P-waves

Answer

S-waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

Surface waves

Question 10

Which scale is commonly used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

Richter scale

Answer

Seismic intensity scale

Answer

Moment magnitude scale

Answer

Mercalli scale

Question 11

Which type of seismic wave arrives at a seismograph station first during an earthquake?

Accepted Answer

P-waves

Answer

Surface waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

S-waves

Question 12

Which type of seismic wave causes the most damage to buildings?

Accepted Answer

Surface waves

Answer

P-waves

Answer

Rayleigh waves

Answer

S-waves

Question 13

Which layer of the Earth is the densest?

Accepted Answer

Inner core

Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Crust

Question 14

Which layer of the Earth is primarily composed of solid rock?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer core

Question 15

Which layer of the Earth is responsible for generating Earth's magnetic field?

Accepted Answer

Outer core

Answer

Crust

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Mantle

Question 16

Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Crust

Answer

Inner core

Question 17

Which layer of the Earth is responsible for tectonic plate movement?

Accepted Answer

Lithosphere

Answer

Asthenosphere

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Outer core

Question 18

Which layer of the Earth is the hottest?

Accepted Answer

Inner core

Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Crust

Question 19

Which layer of the Earth is responsible for the movement of convection currents?

Accepted Answer

Mantle

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Crust

Question 20

Which layer of the Earth contains the Moho discontinuity?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Mantle

Answer

Inner core

Question 21

Which layer of the Earth is primarily composed of molten iron and nickel?

Accepted Answer

Outer core

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Mantle

Answer

Crust

Question 22

Which layer of the Earth is the thinnest?

Accepted Answer

Crust

Answer

Inner core

Answer

Outer core

Answer

Mantle

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