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TCMS 2019 Milestones Review Landforms

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a hill of sand that is shaped by the wind?

a)

topography

b)

mountain

c)

sand dune

d)

sand hill

2.

What is the term for the surface landforms of an area?

a)

landform

b)

topography

c)

mountain

d)

river

3.

What is a natural land shape or feature?

a)

topography

b)

plains

c)

mountain

d)

landform

4.

What landform is usually in ranges and is higher than surrounding land?

a)

plain

b)

relief

c)

mountain

d)

sand dune

5.

What landform has rounded slopes?

a)

hills

b)

plains

c)

mountains

d)

volcanoes

6.

What is a large, flat landform?

a)

hill

b)

mountain

c)

sand dune

d)

plain

7.

Long, narrow piles of sand that help protect the mainland from wave erosion are sand _______________ and ______________ islands.

a)

dunes and barrier

b)

jettys and groins

c)

beaches and volcanic

d)

castles and candy

8.

What is this an image of?

a)

valley

b)

ocean

c)

butte

d)

mesa

9.

This landform is made by a destructive process. What is it?

a)

mesa

b)

canyon

c)

butte

d)

mountain

10.

What is a break in the Earth's crust called?

a)

valley

b)

trench

c)

ridge

d)

fault

11.

What is the process of wearing away rocks?

a)

weathering

b)

erosion

c)

deposition

d)

subduction

12.

What is a large hole formed when a cave collapses?

a)

delta

b)

deposit

c)

landslide

d)

sinkhole

13.

What is the process of moving sediment by wind, water, or ice?

a)

deposition

b)

weathering

c)

physical weathering

d)

erosion

14.

What is an area of new land at the mouth of a river?

a)

delta

b)

desert

c)

beach

d)

sinkhole

15.

What occurs when sediment falls out of water or is set down by wind?

a)

landslide

b)

mountain

c)

weathering

d)

deposition

16.

Where does a river usually deposit sediments?

a)

on the outside bend

b)

in the fastest moving parts of water

c)

at the beginning of the river

d)

at its mouth

17.

When soil, mud, and rocks move quickly down a slope, it is called

a)

weathering

b)

deposition

c)

landslide

d)

delta

18.

What is a mountain that forms as molten rock flows through a crack in Earth's surface?

a)

trench

b)

ridge

c)

fold

d)

volcano

19.

What is the section of Earth's crust and mantle that fits together with other sections?

a)

lava

b)

plate

c)

volcano

d)

trench

20.

What is molten rock that flows from a volcano?

a)

magma

b)

lava

c)

epicenter

d)

mantle

21.

What is melted rock that is beneath Earth's surface?

a)

lava

b)

magma

c)

fault

d)

epicenter

22.

What is a shaking of Earth's surface caused by a movement of rock in the crust?

a)

earthquake

b)

fault

c)

epicenter

d)

focus

23.

What is the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of and earthquake?

a)

fault

b)

magma

c)

focus

d)

epicenter

24.

Where is the place within the crust where energy is released during an earthquake?

a)

fault

b)

epicenter

c)

plate

d)

focus

25.

Which of the following plate movements would least likely cause an earthquake?

a)

plates pushing together

b)

plates sliding past each other

c)

plates pulling apart

d)

plates moving in the same direction

26.

What kind of scale do we use to report the strength of an earthquake?

a)

magnitude

b)

composite

c)

balance

d)

Richter

27.

An especially hot column of magma where volcanoes form is called

a)

hot spot

b)

vent

c)

magma column

d)

molten lava