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Landform Vocabulary

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is an arch?

a)

A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.

b)

A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.

c)

A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.

d)

Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.

2.

What is a mesa?

a)

A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.

b)

A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.

c)

A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.

d)

Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.

3.

What are spheroidal rocks?

a)

A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.

b)

A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.

c)

A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.

d)

Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.

4.

What is a gorge?

a)

A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon

b)

A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.

c)

A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.

d)

A curve or loop in a river or stream.

5.

What is a valley?

a)

A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon

b)

A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.

c)

A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.

d)

A curve or loop in a river or stream.

6.

What is a canyon?

a)

A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon

b)

A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.

c)

A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.

d)

A curve or loop in a river or stream.

7.

What does meander mean?

a)

A narrow, steep-sided valley or canyon

b)

A low area between mountains where a stream or glacier flows. Stream valleys are V-shaped. Glacier vallers are open U-shaped.

c)

A V-shaped gorge with steep sides eroded by a stream.

d)

A curve or loop in a river or stream.

8.

What is an alluvial fan?

a)

An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.

b)

A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.

c)

Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.

d)

A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.

9.

What is a beach?

a)

An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.

b)

A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.

c)

Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.

d)

A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.

10.

What is a floodplain?

a)

An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.

b)

A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.

c)

Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.

d)

A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.

11.

What is a delta?

a)

An area made of sand and other sizes of rocks between the low-tide and high-tide at the coast or lake.

b)

A fan-shaped deposit of rocks formed where a stream flows from a steep slope onto flatter land.

c)

Land covered by water during a flood. Small particles, like sand and silt, are deposited on a floodplain.

d)

A fan-shaped deposit of earth materials at the mouth of a stream.

12.

What is a butte?

a)

A hill with steep sides and a small, flat top. A butte is smaller than a mesa.

b)

A single, wide, flat-topped hill having at least one steep side.

c)

A curved rock that forms when chemical and/or physical weathering wewakens the center, and the rock erodes.

d)

Rounded rocks formed by physical and chemical weathering.