WorksheetsLandforms
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 28mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is this landform?
a)
city
b)
coast
c)
bay
d)
river
2.
What is this landform?
a)
mountain
b)
canyon
c)
coast
d)
cliff
3.
What is this landform?
a)
ocean
b)
bay
c)
coast
d)
river
4.
What is this landform
a)
valley
b)
mountain
c)
hill
d)
glacier
5.
What is this landform?
a)
lake
b)
peninsula
c)
hills
d)
mountain
6.
What is this landform?
a)
valley
b)
hills
c)
river
d)
lake
7.
What is this landform?
a)
mountain
b)
glacier
c)
bay
d)
canyon
8.
What is this a picture of?
a)
Plateau
b)
Mountain
c)
Depression
d)
Plain
9.
Which of the following is most likely caused by two plates moving back and forth?
a)
a volcano
b)
a tornado
c)
a hurricane
d)
an earthquake
10.
An earthquake is -
a)
crust through which lava escapes
b)
a sudden movement in the Earth's crust
c)
a kind of chemical weathering that changes the Earth
d)
a huge wave that washes over the Earth
11.
When lots of rain falls in a day, people living in that area should watch out for -
a)
hurricanes
b)
earthquakes
c)
volcanoes
d)
landslides
12.
What causes a tsunami?
a)
underwater tornado
b)
underwater hurricane
c)
underwater earthquake
d)
underwater landslide
13.
Which of the following most likely caused the changes in the location below?
a)
volcano
b)
weathering
c)
earthquakes
d)
thunderstorm
14.
Avalanches are similar to what other rapid change?
a)
tornado
b)
hurricane
c)
tsunami
d)
landslide
15.
What is the EFFECT of a landslide on hillsides where people live?
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a)
sudden movement
b)
wildfires
c)
heavy rain
d)
damaged houses
16.
A/An ________________ is an opening in Earth's crust through which hot ash, gases, and molten rock escape.
a)
volcano
b)
fault
c)
earthquake
d)
creep
17.
A very large ocean wave that is caused by an underwater earthquake is a/an...
a)
flood
b)
tsunami
c)
rockslide
d)
weathering
18.
A rapid change is a change that happens ____________.
a)
Slow
b)
Hot
c)
Cold
d)
Fast
19.
The movement of weathered rock material from one place to another is ________.
a)
erosion
b)
weathering
c)
deposition
d)
delta
20.
A large mass of slow-moving ice that flows down a slope is called a ________.
a)
temperature
b)
weathered rock
frost bite
frost bite
c)
erosion
d)
glacier
21.
The slow breaking apart or wearing away of rock into smaller pieces is best described as __________.
a)
weathering
b)
erosion
c)
deposition
d)
silt
22.
The loose material that covers much of earth's surface is called _________.
a)
humus
b)
bedrock
c)
soil
d)
fossils
23.
When water gets into a rock and freezes, the rock will eventually crack. This is an example of ___________.
a)
deposition
b)
erosion
c)
humus
d)
weathering
24.
The layer of soil just below the topsoil is called ____________.
a)
particle soil
b)
subsoil
c)
bedrock
d)
humus
25.
Weathering is caused by
a)
wind and clouds
b)
water and clouds
c)
sand and water
d)
wind and water
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