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WorksheetsGeography Terms: Q43-RC-Wk3 TEST 2-25-21
Total questions: 84
Worksheet time: 53mins
What is a river?
The largest natural body of water that flows
The smallest natural body of water that flows
A medium sized flow of water
How are subduction volcanoes formed?
from mountains over a long period of time
when tectonic plates make contact and with their friction melt the Earth's crust, the intense heat melts the rock below the crust turning it into magma
when the Earth removes its excess waste
when magma takes up too much space within the earth and causes subduction
What is a gulf?
A type of sport
A body of land completely surrounded by water
A piece of land surrounded by water
A deep body of water nearly surrounded by land as in the shape of the letter "C"
How is a canal formed?
By nature
Artifically
Erodes over time
By animals
In technical terms, both a gulf and a bay are the same things, and the only difference is that:
A bay is much larger than a gulf.
both are exactly the same
A gulf is much larger than a bay.
Imaginary lines traveling from North to South on the Earth are called:
Tropic of Cancer lines
Longitude lines
Latitude lines
Tropic of Capricorn lines
Imaginary lines traveling East to West on the Earth are called:
Equator lines
Latitude lines
Longitude lines
International Date lines
A map that allows the reader to distinguish between mountains, valleys and appears as if 3D is called a:
Topographic map
creative map
Political map
A body of land extending from a larger body of land and formed primarily from erosion is called a:
inlet
cape
cliff
peninsula
An extremely large body of ice that, over thousands of years, form valleys, canyons and mountains because it is constantly moving is called a:
Greenland
iceberg
glacier
Iceland
How does a glacier move ?
Earthquakes
Wind
its own weight
All of the above
All of the above but it is primarily the weight that moves it
Any point on the Earth where the Sun's rays strike the Earth directly is called the solar:
eclipse
zenith
rays
A body of land surrounded by water all the way around is called:
a continent
an island
a peninsula
a lake
a very narrow body of land that connects two larger bodies of land is called:
an isthmus
a straight
a land bridge
a peninsula
A body of land protruding from a larger body of land and surrounded by water on three side sis called:
a cape
a peninsula
a straight
a plank
A flat grassy, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation and occurs as lowlands along the bottoms of valleys or on the doorsteps of mountains are called:
savannas
plains
grassy deserts
prairies
The mouth of a river as it empties itself into the ocean or sea is called:
a dredge
a water fall
a delta
an isthmus
What word means: a narrow strip of land connecting two larger pieces of land?
continent
isthmus
settlement
strait
A large sea or ocean inlet, deeper than a bight and wider than a fjord; or a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land is called:
a canyon
a sound
a water canyon
a bay
A type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons is called:
tundra
forest
ice desert
A large body of water surrounded by land all the way around is called:
a lake
a sea
a pond
a crevice
The largest of any body of constantly flowing water is called:
a river
a brook
a stream
a trickle
The smallest of any body of constantly flowing water is called:
a river
a brook
a stream
a trickle
a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere is called:
plate tectonics
tectonic plates
continental drift
Pangea
The imaginary line on the Earth, dividing it into northern and southern hemispheres is called the:
The Prime Meridian
The Tropic of Cancer
Equator
The Tropic of Capricorn
The imaginary lines traveling North to South on the Earth break-up the Earth into how many sections?
12
48
60
24
