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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 21mins
Select the 3 Hot deserts out of the following:
Gobi desert in Asia
Sonoran desert in Arizona
The Patagonian desert in South America
Great Victoria Desert in Australia
Sahara Desert
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.
True
False
What is called the Land of Extremes: Extreme heat and Extreme Dryness; sudden flash floods and cold nights?
Plateau
Volcano
Desert
Island
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:
Sedimentation
Datafication
Desertification
Icification
What is the gradual and slow process of destruction by wind, water, or other natural agents called?
Explosion
Pollution
Erosion
Precipitation
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
Gulf
Bay
Mountain
Hill
Which is an elevated landform with a flat, table-like surface on top?
Peninsula
Gulf
Valley
Plateau
What is a part of the coast where the land curves in so that the sea is surrounded by land on three sides.
Gulf
Bay
Archipelago
Valley
What is a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two other large areas of water.
Bay
Strait
Gulf
Archipelago
What is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated.
Delta
Isthmus
Plain
Desert
Which are a broad area of relatively flat land. Also, they are one of the major landforms, or types of land, on Earth.
Lagoon
Bay
Delta
Plains
What is an opening in the Earth's crust which allows hot, molten lava, ash and gas to escape from below the surface?
Archipelago
Isthmus
Volcano
Peninsula
A group of Islands is called:
Peninsula
Archepelago
Lagoon
Bay
A slow moving mass of ice/river is called ................
Lagoon
Iceburg
Snowball
Glacier
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?
Delta
Desert
Plain
Lagoon
What is a deep inlet of the sea almost surrounded by land, with a narrow mouth?
Plateau
Bay
Gulf
Island
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?
Deserts
Plains
Plateaus
Valleys
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?
Plains
Archipelago
Bay
Isthmus
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?
Delta
Desert
Plains
Strait
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?
Delta
Island
Lagoon
Isthmus
