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Landforms and Soil

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which landforms have the tallest elevations (heights) on the Earth?
a)
Mountains
b)
Valleys
c)
Hills
d)
Plains
2.
What do we call the landforms that are flat?
a)
Mountains
b)
Hills
c)
Valleys
d)
Plains
3.
What landform is between two mountains and sometimes has a river run through it?
a)
Hill
b)
Valley
c)
Mountain
d)
Plain
4.
What describes a mountain?
a)
Salt water surrounded by land.
b)
Rounded, gentle rise in the land.
c)
Steep, pointed rise in the land.
d)
Large area of relatively flat land.
5.
What describes a valley?
a)
Flat land surrounded by mountains.
b)
Rounded, gentle rise in the land.
c)
Steep, pointed rise in the land.
d)
Large area of relatively flat land.
6.
What describes a plain?
a)
Salt water surrounded by land.
b)
Rounded, gentle rise in the land.
c)
Steep, pointed rise in the land.
d)
Large area of relatively flat land.
7.
What describes a hill?
a)
Salt water surrounded by land.
b)
Rounded, gentle rise in the land.
c)
Steep, pointed rise in the land.
d)
Large area of relatively flat land.
8.
What is not found naturally in soil?
a)
animal remains
b)
weathered rock
c)
plant matter
d)
plastic materials
9.
If there are rocks near the ocean get broken into smaller pieces. What causes this change to these rocks?
a)
Salt dissolving in the water
b)
Clouds forming in the sky
c)
Leaves falling from trees
d)
Water crashing against the rocks
10.
When rocks get weathered into small pieces, what natural resource forms?
a)
Minerals
b)
Soil
c)
Water
d)
Rocks
11.
How do plants contribute to the formation of soil?
a)
die, decompose and become part of the soil.
b)
cover the soil and shade it from sunlight.
c)
use  soil to grow and develop over time.
d)
support the animal life in the soil.
12.
A student made a mixture of rocks, sand, a few bugs, and some leaves.  This student has modeled —
a)
how landforms are created.
b)
the life cycles of plants.
c)
how rocks change over time.
d)
the formation of soil.