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- 1. Multiple Choice
What are the two factors that affect conduction on the Earth’s surface?
radioactive decay and nuclear disintegration of elements
movement of plates and radiation from the Earth’s core
heat from the Earth's core and radiation from the Sun
stored magma and volcanic eruption
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is described as the process of heat exchange between
the Sun and the Earth that controls the temperatures of the latter?
conduction
convection
insolation
radiation
- 3. Multiple Choice
How the conduction in the surface of the earth affect the temperature of our
atmosphere?
Air molecules do not come in contact with the warmer surface of the
land and ocean resulting to the increase of its thermal energy.
Air molecules do not come in contact with the cooler surface of the land
and ocean resulting to the increase of its thermal energy.
Air molecules come in contact with the warmer surface of the land and
ocean resulting to the increase of its thermal energy
Air molecules come in contact with the cooler surface of the land and
ocean resulting to the decrease of its thermal energy.
- 4. Multiple Choice
How does the mantle behave as a viscous fluid on a geological time scale?
altitude
pressure
radiation
temperature
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why radioactive decay plays a significant role in Earth’s internal heat?
Spontaneous nuclear disintegration of radioactive elements produced
thermal energy
Radioactive element can be found anywhere in the planet.
When radioactive element decays, it produces heat.
All of the these.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What kind of process by which heat energy is transmitted through collisions
between neighboring atoms or molecules?
conduction
convection
insolation
radiation
- 7. Multiple Choice
What kind of heat transfer occurs mostly on the Earth’s surface?
Conduction
Convection
Insolation
Radiation
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following stores magma and located in a region just beneath the
crust all the way to the core?
crust
inner core
mantle
outer core
- 9. Multiple Choice
What refers to the shaking of the surface of the Earth resulting from a
sudden release of energy caused by a convection current?
earthquake
hurricane
storm surge
volcanic eruption
- 10. Multiple Choice
How much is the approximate terawatts in the flow of heat in Earth’s interior
to its surface?
41 terawatts
43 terawatts
47 terawatts
49 terawatts
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following are boundaries between the three major layers of the
earth?
arches
discontinuities
plates
poles
- 12. Multiple Choice
What heat transfer of fluid in the earth’s interior results to the movement of
rocky mantle up to the surface of the earth?
Conduction
Convection
Insolation
Radiation
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is the outermost layer of the Earth?
crust
core
mantle
Discontinuity
- 14. Multiple Choice
What process by which heat is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or between adjoining regions, without movement of the material?
Conduction
Convection
Insolation
Radiation
- 15. Multiple Choice
What is produced by the radioactive decay of isotopes in the mantle and crust?
heat from the sun
primordial heat
radiogenic heat
superheating
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