PRETEST

Earth’s Layer and It’s Interior

(Grade 11)

Name: (Optional)

Instruction: Encircle the letter that best corresponds to your answer.

1. Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

A. Stratosphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Troposphere
D. Thermosphere
2. We know that the outer core is liquid because
A. P waves pass through it
B. S waves pass through it
C. P waves cannot pass through it
D. S waves cannot pass through it
3. From earth’s atmosphere the carbon dioxide is used by the plants, algae, and cyanobacteria
during the process of
A. Photosynthesis
B. Respiration
C. Decomposition
D. Nitrogen fixation
4. Earth atmosphere is divided into layers that are based upon their
A. Water content
B. Relative humidity
C. Gas content
D. Temperature gradient
5. Which gas is essential for plant to prepare its food?
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Ozone, helium and argon
C. Nitrogen
D. Sulfur dioxide
6. Scientist has found fossils of tropical plants in Antarctica. How could tropical plants grown in
Antarctica?
A. At one time, earth’s entire surface as a tropical rain forest
B. At one time, Antarctica was located closer to the equator
C.The rotation of earth has increased, causing cooling of the atmosphere
D. Catastrophic volcanic eruptions melted the ice and exposed the soil to sunlight

7. Why does the moon have so many craters?

A. The moon has less gravity than the planet earth
B. The moon’s orbit travels into a meteor hot spot
C. Let’s face fact; the moon has really slow reflexes
D. The moon has no atmosphere to protect it from meteors or debris
8. How important is the atmosphere?
A. Provide the gases necessary for living things to survive
B. Regulate the heat from the sun to just the right temperature for life on earth
C. Necessary for the water cycle
 D. The ozone layer protects the earth from the sun’s harmful rays.
9. How does the moist air affect the earth surfaces?
A. Movement of moist air masses also transports water from the oceans to the land areas
across our entire planet.
B. Moisture in the air comes from us breathing, from using water, unflued gas heaters.
C. Water returns the surface by condensation in the atmosphere and precipitation.
D. None of these
10. Only 50%of the solar energy directed towards earth penetrates directly to the
surface. What will happen to the rest of the radiation?
A. It is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere.
B. It loses energy travelling through space.
C. It is reflected off the moon back into space.
D. It losses energy overcoming the sun’s gravity.
11. What if the earth did not rotate, what will happen?
A. The air would flow perpendicular to the isobar
B. Air causes deflected to the right of its original path
C. There will be no night and day happened
D. None of these
12. Which is the blanket of air that surrounds the earth?
A. Sun
B. Atmosphere
C. Mesosphere
D.Stratosphere
13. Which of the following human activities reduces the level of ozone in the atmosphere?
A. Using artificial lighting in scientific polar stations
B. Using large banks of solar cells for energy production.
C. Releasing chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol cans.
D. Destroying large areas of the equatorial rain forest.
14. What causes the wind deflection from the north and south poles?
A. The rotation of the earth on its axis
B. The oblate shape of the earth
C. The tilt of earth axis relative to its orbital plane
D. The difference in total land mass of the two hemisphere

15. What is the name of the atmosphere layer of upwardly diminishing temperature
situated above the stratosphere and topped by the mesopause?
A. Mesosphere
B. Troposphere
C. Thermosphere
D. Exosphere
16. What is the most important region of earth’s interior?
A. Earth crust
B. Oceanic crust
C. Centrifugal
D. Continental crust
17. First layer of earth on which we live is known as
A. The outer core
B. The inner core
C. The mantle
D. The crust
18. The second layer of the earth comes after crust of earth known as
A. The outer core
B. The inner core
 C. The mantle
D. The crust
19. Central and hottest part of the earth is called
A. The crust
B. The mantle
C. The inner core
D. Outer core
20. Which layer of the atmosphere has the highest density of gas molecules?
A. Exosphere
B. Troposphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
21. In which layer do virtually all weather phenomena take place?
A. Exosphere
B. Mesosphere
C.Thermosphere
D.Troposphere
22. Fusion is a form of nuclear reaction resulting in an enormous release of energy. the fusion of
hydrogen to helium is a reaction that commonly occurs in
A. The sun and outer typical stars
B. The ionosphere and thermosphere
C. The earth’s outer core of molten iron
D. A comel’s tail of ionized gases
23. Earthquake vibrations are detected measured and recorded by instruments called?
A. Sonagraphs
B. Seismograph
C. Richter scales
D. Magnetometers
24. Geothermal energy is possible when there is
A. Wind
B. Oil
C. Coal
D. Magma
25. The moon is very hot on the side facing the sun and very cold on the dark side . three
extreme temperature differences is primarily due to the moon.
A. Mineral composition
B. Thin atmosphere
C. Reflective rocks
D. Lack of volcanic activity
26. Which of the following is not one of the earth layer?
A. Inner
B. Crust
C. Outer mantle
D. Lower mantle
27. Crust is made up of
A. Mineral ores plate
B. Tectonic plate
C. Mantle plate
D. Crust plate
28. Crust is made up of
A. Mineral ores plate
B. Tectonic plate
C. Mantle plate
 D.Crust plate
29. A pressure that put on a given area by the weight of the air above it?
A. Inner force
B. Air Pressure
C. Force
D. Outer Pressure
30. An image which you can viewed near Anchorage, Alaska?
A. Aurora Borealis
B. Lightning
C. Stars and Constilation
D. Andromeda

Answer Key

1.A
2.C
3.A
4.B
5.A
6.B
7.D
8.B
9.A
10.A
11.C
12.B
13.C
14.A
15.A
16.A
17.D
18.C
19.C
20.B
21.D
22.A
23.B
24.D
25.B
26.B
27.B
28.B
29.B
30.A