Year 8 Geography Revision - Landscapes and Landforms

Select the correct name for the highlighted location

• The Twelve Apostles

• Fraser Island

• Cape York Peninsular

• Cradle Mountain

A ____________ is a feature that makes up the Earth’s surface, such as a plain, mountain or valley

The visible appearance of an area, including geological, biological and cultural elements is known as:

• Landscape

• Landform

• Continents

• Mountains

Which one is not a landscape?

• Arid

• Mining

• Coastal

• Volcano

All good maps should include?

• Legend, border, title and colour

• Legend, border, orientation and source

• Legend, street names, title and border

• •Title, colour, features, street names

A _________________ is one of Earth’s seven main divisions of land. The continents are, from largest to smallest: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia

• continent

• country

• tectonic plate

• Pangea

Wearing away the surface by water, wind and wasting is:

• Weathering and erosion

• Plate tectonics

• Topography

• Deposition

Movement creating mountains, volcanos and earthquakes is:

• Plate Tectonics

• Deposition

• Subduction

• Weathering and erosion

An imaginary line on the ground that joins all places of the same height above sea level is:

• Contour interval

• Geomorphic processes

• Cross section

• Contour lines

Building up of materials of sand, soil and sediment

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Subduction

• Geomorphic processes