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Physical Geo Review Quiz

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 41mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This landform region is the oldest in Canada. It is rocky and there are millions of small lakes there. Copper and nickel is mined there.

a)

Canadian Shield

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Arctic Lowlands

d)

Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

2.

This landform region is level to rolling and partly flooded by the sea. There are many islands, tundra vegetation and sea ice is found along the coast most of the year.

a)

Interior Plains

b)

Hudson Bay Lowlands

c)

Innuitian Mountains

d)

Arctic Lowlands

3.

This landform region was carved out by glaciers. There are large lakes and fertile soil. There are also several escarpments (long, steep slopes).

a)

Innuitian Mountains

b)

Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

c)

Canadian Shield

d)

Hudson Bay Lowlands

4.

This landform region has level to rolling hills. It has meandering rivers and deep, fertile soils. It is also known as the Prairies.

a)

Arctic Lowlands

b)

Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

c)

Interior Plains (Lowlands)

d)

Appalachian Mountains

5.

This landform region has old, rounded mountains that formed during the Paleozoic era. There are mixed forests and a mixture of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks.

a)

Appalachian Mountains

b)

Western Cordillera

c)

Innuitian Mountains

d)

Canadian Shield

6.

This landform region has high, rugged mountain ranges. Boreal forests are found on the slopes and some higher peaks have glaciers. Mountain goats and grizzly bears live there.

a)

Canadian Shield

b)

Appalachian Mountains

c)

Western Cordillera

d)

Innuitian Mountains

7.

This landform region has rugged mountains, large glaciers and snow fields. The land is mostly barren (cannot grow plants) with some tundra.

a)

Appalachian Mountains

b)

Canadian Shield

c)

Western Cordillera

d)

Innuitian Mountains

8.

This landform region has very flat and swampy land. There area large areas of wetlands and small coniferous trees.

a)

Canadian Shield

b)

Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands

c)

Hudson Bay Lowlands

d)

Interior Plains

9.

When objects are worn down by natural elements in the environment. ex) freezing and thawing

a)

erosion

b)

weathering

c)

break down

d)

none of these

10.

The removal of part of the land surface by wind, water, gravity, or ice.

a)

erosion

b)

mechanical weathering

c)

chemical weathering

d)

none of these

11.

What was the name of the supercontinent that existed 200-300 million years ago?

a)

Laurasia

b)

Gondwanaland

c)

Pangea

d)

Pandora

12.

Which list is in the correct order from the interior of the Earth to the exterior?

a)

plates, core, mantle, crust

b)

mantle, inner core, outer core, plates

c)

inner core, outer core, mantle, plates, crust

d)

core, inner mantle, outer mantle, crust

13.

The flow of energy inside the mantle that is responsible for the movement of the plates.

a)

heat rotations

b)

conveyor flows

c)

hot spots

d)

convection currents

14.

Look at the photo. Which landform region is it?

a)

Canadian Shield

b)

Innuitians

c)

Great Lakes St Lawrence Lowlands

d)

Western Cordillera

15.

Which landform region is this?

a)

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

b)

Appalachians

c)

Interior Plains

d)

Western Cordillera

16.

Which landform region is this?

a)

Interior Plains

b)

Innuitians

c)

Appalachians

d)

Western Cordillera

17.
Which physical feature is a huge region rich in minerals, trees, and water but is not good for farming?
a)
The Hudson Bay
b)
The St. Lawrence River
c)
The Canadian Shield
d)
The Rocky Mountains
18.
How has climate affected where Canadians live?
a)
Few people live in the northern regions of Canada because of the cold climate.
b)
Few people live along the border of Canada and the U.S. because of the cold climate.
c)
Most people tend to migrate and live in the northern provinces of Canada.
d)
Most people tend to migrate toward Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake.
19.
The name of the body of water surrounded by the Canadian Shield is
a)
St. Lawrence Seaway
b)
Atlantic Ocean
c)
Arctic Ocean
d)
Hudson Bay
20.
Northern Canada is extremely cold due to its location close to:
a)
Quebec
b)
Ottawa
c)
Arctic Circle
d)
Potash
21.

The largest landform region in Canada is the ...

a)

Canadian Shield

b)

Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands

c)

Interior Plains

22.

This is the smallest region with more industries and most of the population.

a)

Interior Plains

b)

Canadian Shield

c)

Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Lowlands

23.
This area contains prairies and farms
a)
St. Lawrence Lowlands
b)
Western Mountains
c)
Interior Plains
24.
The two main factors that determine the climate of a region are _____________ and ______________.
a)
altitude and pressure
b)
pressure and temperature
c)
temperature and precipitation
d)
altitude and pressure
25.

What type of glacier forms in a mountainous area?

a)

Alpine

b)

continental

c)

till

d)

moraine

26.

A gigantic mass of moving ice

a)

glacial drift

b)

stratified drift

c)

till

d)

glacier

27.

What type of glacier covers huge areas of land?

a)

alpine

b)

continental

c)

till

d)

moraine

28.

What are sharp pyramid shaped peaks formed by alpine glaciers called?

a)

U-shaped valleys

b)

cirques

c)

aretes

d)

horns

29.

which type of moraine forms along each side of a glacier?

a)

medial moraine

b)

lateral moraine

c)

ground moraine

d)

terminal moraine

30.
A glacier is __________
a)
series of frozen lakes that line up parallel to one another 
b)
series of frozen seas that rest in the interior of continents 
c)
o  large body of ice that does not move across the earth's surface 
d)
large body of ice and snow that shows evidence of movement 
31.
Glaciers form when _____.
a)
less snow falls than melts 
b)
more snow falls than melts 
c)
less rain falls than freezes 
d)
more rain falls than freezes 
32.
Icebergs form when a glacier flows into a body of water and cracks apart. This process is known as _____.
a)
drifting
b)
cracking
c)
calving
d)
crevassing
33.
_____ are parallel scratch marks on bedrock
a)
Plucking
b)
Abrasion
c)
Straitions
d)
Till
34.
_____ are enormous boulders transported and deposited by glaciers, often far from their source region.
a)
Till
b)
Erratics
c)
Moraines
d)
Fjords
35.
A _____ is a meandering narrow ridge formed when water, flowing in a tunnel underneath a melting glacier, deposited sediment
a)
erratic
b)
moraine
c)
esker
d)
fjords
36.
A _____ is a tear-drop-shaped hill created by ice flow over and around till deposit.
a)
drumlin
b)
esker
c)
moraine
d)
erratic
37.
Glaciers only form near Earth’s poles.
a)
True
b)
False
38.
A German scientist Alfred Wegener was the first to hypothesize that ...........
a)
Continents were once joined
b)
The sea floor is spreading
c)
Continents are moving
d)
The Earth's magnetic pole flips
39.
Pangaea was an ancient supercontinent made up of...
a)
America, Greenland, and Europe.
b)
Antarctica, India, and America.
c)
all of Earth’s continents.
d)
South Africa, India, Australia, and South America.
40.
Peer scientists reviewing Wegener’s hypothesis of continental drift rejected his notion because
a)
His evidence was too few to make a valid conclusion 
b)
He did not explain how continents move and what moves them
c)
His evidence was not clear in showing  how continents were joined
d)
He lied by including false evidence
41.
The Himalayan mountains have some of the highest peaks like Mt. Everest, on which type of convergent boundary are they located?
a)
Oceanic/Continental
b)
Oceanic/Oceanic
c)
Continental/Continental
d)
None of the above
42.
The mechanism that moves continents is based on heat energy moving by
a)
Radiation in the core
b)
Conduction in the lithosphere
c)
Convection in the Asthenosphere
d)
None of these options is true
43.

The San Andreas fault in California is one example of a...

a)

Divergent boundary

b)

Convergent boundary

c)

Transform boundary

d)

All of the above

44.

What type of event will occur at this boundary?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Volcano Eruption

c)

Tornado

d)

Mountain Building

45.

A divergent boundary occurs when plates ....

a)

Pull apart

b)

Come together

c)

Slide past each other

d)

subducting

46.

Mountains are created when....

a)

Two continental plates collide

b)

Two oceanic plates pull apart

c)

An Oceanic plate subducts under a Continental Plate

d)

Two continental plates pull apart

47.

The Great Rift Valley in Africa and the Mid-Ocean Ridge were all created by this boundary

a)

Divergent

b)

Convergent

c)

Reform

d)

Transform

48.

The tectonic plates float on the

a)

lithosphere

b)

lower mantle

c)

outer core

d)

asthenosphere

49.

What occurs when two plates come together and the denser one is forced under back into the mantle?

a)

reduction

b)

conduction

c)

subduction

d)

convection

50.

The youngest rocks on the seafloor are most likely found...

a)

closest to a mid-ocean ridge

b)

farthest from a mid-ocean ridge

c)

near the coastlines

d)

closest to a deep sea trench

51.
_________ are vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake.
a)
Seismic Waves
b)
Rumbles
c)
Plate Tectonics
d)
Convection Currents
52.
The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor is called ___________.
a)
Divergent boundary
b)
Sea-floor spreading
c)
Convergent boundary
d)
Renovating 
53.
_____________ is when two plates move toward each other.
a)
Convergent boundary
b)
Allegiant boundary
c)
Transform boundary
d)
Sliding boundary
54.
_______ rock forms from magma/lava
a)
Metamorphic
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Igneous
55.

What was responsible for billions of dollars of damage, 13 deaths in New York City, and flooding throughout New York?

a)

Hurricane Ida

b)

a tsunami

c)

glaciers melting

d)

a tornado

56.

What natural disaster is most common in Kingston?

a)

tornado

b)

earthquake

c)

flooding

d)

volcano

57.

What can be done to help mitigate (lessen the damage) floods?

a)

create rain ponds and storage tanks

b)

update sewer systems

c)

keep drains clear

d)

all of these things

58.

What is a rain garden (as used by Hoboken, New Jersey)?

a)

a place for beavers to build

b)

soil, plants and a pond used to absorb and slowly drain rain

c)

a garden where only tropical plants are used

d)

a garden designed to attract more rain

59.

How often are "100-year" floods occuring now?

a)

one in every 100 years

b)

one every eight years

c)

one every eighty years

d)

one every 200 years

60.

Which of these is NOT a result of flooding in Kingston?

a)

damage to homes

b)

roads blocked

c)

unclearn water in taps

d)

cars damaged

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