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Landforms

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Select the 3 Hot deserts out of the following:

a)

Gobi desert in Asia

b)

Sonoran desert in Arizona

c)

The Patagonian desert in South America

d)

Great Victoria Desert in Australia

e)

Sahara Desert

2.

Is the following statement True or False:


Cold deserts are found in places like Greenland and the Antarctic regions. Because they are farther from the equator, they can get quite cold.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What is called the Land of Extremes: Extreme heat and Extreme Dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights?

a)

Plateau

b)

Volcano

c)

Desert

d)

Island

4.

Some of the regions are turning into desert at a high rate. This is because so many human populations have settled there to grow crops and graze animals.


This process is known as:

a)

Sedimentation

b)

Datafication

c)

Desertification

d)

Icification

5.

What is the gradual and slow process of destruction by wind, water, or other natural agents called?

a)

Explosion

b)

Pollution

c)

Erosion

d)

Precipitation

6.

Which is the highest landform on the surface of the earth. It is usually found to be conical in shape with steep sides and a pointed tip called a peak

a)

Gulf

b)

Bay

c)

Mountain

d)

Hill

7.

Which is an elevated landform with a flat, table-like surface on top?

a)

Peninsula

b)

Gulf

c)

Valley

d)

Plateau

8.

What is a part of the coast where the land curves in so that the sea is surrounded by land on three sides.

a)

Gulf

b)

Bay

c)

Archipelago

d)

Valley

9.

What is a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.

a)

Bay

b)

Strait

c)

Gulf

d)

Archipelago

10.

What is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.

a)

Delta

b)

Isthmus

c)

Plain

d)

Desert

11.

Which are a broad area of relatively flat land. Also, they are one of the major landforms, or types of land, on Earth.

a)

Lagoon

b)

Bay

c)

Delta

d)

Plains

12.

What is an opening in the Earth's crust which allows hot, molten lava, ash and gas to escape from below the surface?

a)

Archipelago

b)

Isthmus

c)

Volcano

d)

Peninsula

13.

A group of Islands is called:

a)

Peninsula

b)

Archepelago

c)

Lagoon

d)

Bay

14.

A slow moving mass of ice/river is called ................

a)

Lagoon

b)

Iceburg

c)

Snowball

d)

Glacier

15.

What is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water?

a)

Delta

b)

Desert

c)

Plain

d)

Lagoon

16.

What is a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth?

a)

Plateau

b)

Bay

c)

Gulf

d)

Island

17.

I am the spaces between mountains. Somewhere I am V-shaped, and somewhere, U-shaped. Many people live in me, because I have a comfortable temperature, am protected, and may have rivers flowing through me.


Who am I?

a)

Deserts

b)

Plains

c)

Plateaus

d)

Valleys

18.

What is an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands?

a)

Plains

b)

Archipelago

c)

Bay

d)

Isthmus

19.

I am a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or standing water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, or (more rarely) another river . What am I?

a)

Delta

b)

Desert

c)

Plains

d)

Strait

20.

I am a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. What am I?

a)

Delta

b)

Island

c)

Lagoon

d)

Isthmus