This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a large body of water with land all around it? A) River. B) Lake. C) Island. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake. 2. Which river is the largest in India? A) Yamuna. B) Narmada. C) Brahmaputra. D) Ganga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ganga. 3. How can you identify a capital on a map? A) Capitals are indicated by dots on maps. B) Capitals are marked with lines / borders on maps. C) Capitals are shown as dashed lines on maps. D) Capitals are usually represented by stars on maps. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capitals are usually represented by stars on maps. 4. The base of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away. A) Weathering. B) Erosion. C) Landform. D) Shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shield. 5. Which County to we live in? A) Ontario. B) Finger Lakes. C) Saratoga. D) Erie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erie. 6. Absolute location gives the exact location. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. What do we call a part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline? A) Isthmus. B) Gulf. C) River. D) Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gulf. 8. What are the landforms made from? A) Dirt and metal. B) Metal and rock. C) Rock and water. D) Dirt and rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dirt and rock. 9. Which landform is a large natural stream of water that flows into an ocean, lake, or another river? A) River. B) Lake. C) Valley. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) River. 10. The downfolded rock strata is called ..... A) Syncline. B) Anticline. C) None. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syncline. 11. A large flat area that rises steeply above the surrounding area A) Plateau. B) Mountain. C) Valley. D) Plain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plateau. 12. What land form is a deep valley with very steep sides? A) Canyon. B) Mountain. C) Valley. D) Plain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canyon. 13. What is the definition of geography? A) Study of geodes. B) The study of people and how they work. C) The study of earth and how people use it. D) The study of forests and how they are used. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of earth and how people use it. 14. What is the definition of Human environment interaction? A) How we as humans relate to the environment and how it affects us. B) Where things are on the earth. C) Moving people and items around. D) Places that share the same characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How we as humans relate to the environment and how it affects us. 15. A mountain that has synclines and anticlines is called a A) Dome Mountain. B) Fault-Block Mountain. C) Fold Mountain. D) Plateau Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fold Mountain. 16. When humans impact(change) their environment it is called: A) Location. B) Region. C) Movement. D) Human Environment Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human Environment Interaction. 17. Belief that the forces acting on the earth now are the same forces that shaped the earth in the past A) Uniformitarianism. B) Erosion. C) Fauna. D) Flora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uniformitarianism. 18. A ..... is a large, mostly flat area of land that rises above the surrounding land. A) Gorge. B) Valley. C) Mountain. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plateau. 19. The forces that originate and operate below the surface of the earth is called ..... A) Endogenic forces. B) Exogenic forces. C) Gradational forces. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endogenic forces. 20. An isthmus is a ..... A) Land that is almost completely surrounded by water. B) A bowl-shaped area of land surrounded by higher land. C) Area of flat gently rolling low land. D) Narrow strip of land connecting to larger areas of land. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Narrow strip of land connecting to larger areas of land. 21. A mound of raised land that is smaller than a mountain. A) Plateau. B) Mountain. C) Hill. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hill. 22. Which hemispheres do we live in? A) The Southern and Eastern Hemisphere. B) The Western and Northern Hemisphere. C) The Western and Eastern Hemisphere. D) The Northern and Eastern Hemisphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Western and Northern Hemisphere. 23. The young fold mountains are ..... A) Ural. B) Himalayas. C) Araravalli. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Himalayas. 24. What is absolute location? A) The exact location. B) Lines of longitude. C) Absolutely no clue. D) A round about idea of where something is located. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The exact location. 25. Which of the following is NOT a type of landform? A) Mountain. B) River. C) Valley. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) River. 26. What landforms would we find in the Blue Ridge region? A) Mountains, Rivers, and Waterfalls. B) Coast, ocean, and swamps. C) Plains and farm land. D) Hills, lakes, and rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountains, Rivers, and Waterfalls. 27. How do humans and the environment work together? A) Place. B) Location. C) Human-environment interaction. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human-environment interaction. 28. Place does not include physical and human characteristics A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. A body of water that flows and is surrounded by land on both sides? A) Stream. B) Pond. C) Ocean. D) River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) River. 30. In which hemispheres are New York located? A) Southwestern. B) Southeastern. C) Northwestern. D) Northeastern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Northwestern. 31. Which might be the BEST place to grow crops? A) Down in a canyon. B) On a grassy plain. C) On top of a mountain. D) On the side of a cliff. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On a grassy plain. 32. The temperature in some deserts can change ..... A) A lot. B) A little. C) Over time. D) Not at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lot. 33. Which landform is home to one of the rarest and most fragile ecosystems in the world, spanning over 2.1 million square miles and featuring the Amazon River? A) Amazon Rainforest. B) Caribbean Sea. C) Greater Antilles. D) Patagonia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amazon Rainforest. 34. What do we call the landforms that are flat? A) Mountains. B) Plains. C) Valleys. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plains. 35. What is rifting? A) Large sections of Earth's crust. B) The constant movement of Earth's crust. C) The place where Earth's crust is weak. D) Inner core, outer core, mantle and crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The constant movement of Earth's crust. 36. The theory which states that the Earth's crust is composed of giant plates that are floating on the liquid mantle is called: A) Divergent Plate Boundaries. B) Plate Tectonics. C) Convection Flow. D) Subduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plate Tectonics. 37. How do glaciers influence the formation of valleys? A) Glaciers fill valleys with water and debris. B) Glaciers carve U-shaped valleys through erosion and sediment deposition. C) Glaciers create circular valleys by melting ice. D) Glaciers form flat plains through sediment accumulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glaciers carve U-shaped valleys through erosion and sediment deposition. 38. Which form of the following landform? A) Mountain. B) Season. C) Cloud. D) Weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain. 39. Which river flows 820 miles from the interior (inside) of Europe north and ends in the North sea and served as a watery highway for centuries? A) Po River. B) Danube River. C) Rhine River. D) Colorado River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhine River. 40. What is the main characteristic of a desert? A) High rainfall. B) Low rainfall. C) Many trees. D) Surrounded by water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low rainfall. 41. Which process involves the movement of vast sections of Earth's crust called plates around the globe, creating major geographic features like mountain ranges, ocean basins, and continental shields? A) Tectonic cycle. B) Hydrological cycle. C) Atmospheric cycle. D) Rock cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tectonic cycle. 42. A hill is raised land with a rounded top. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Which landform is water surrounded by land on all sides? A) Lake. B) River. C) Stream. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake. 44. Fossils are most likely to be found in A) Lithic. B) Metamorphic rocks. C) Sedimentary rocks. D) Igneous rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sedimentary rocks. 45. Erosion, Human Environmental Interaction and Plate Tectonics are ..... A) Phenomena. B) Physical processes. C) Events. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical processes. 46. Maps help people find locations. A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 47. Which process moves minerals through igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic phases that shape much of the Earth's crust? A) Tectonic cycle. B) Hydrological cycle. C) Rock cycle. D) Atmospheric cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rock cycle. 48. Large areas of flat land with no hills or mountains A) Hills. B) Valleys. C) Plains. D) Lagoons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plains. 49. Which of the following is an example of a landform? A) Fish. B) Mountains. C) Bears. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountains. 50. Describes a specific location using both human and physical characteristics A) Location. B) Place. C) Region. D) Human/Env Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place. 51. A large mass of thick ice is called a ..... A) Volcano. B) Tundra. C) Glacier. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glacier. 52. What is a lowland area between higher lands such as mountains. A) Mountain. B) Valley. C) Island. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valley. 53. What is the primary cause of groundwater depletion in plains? A) Mining activities. B) Heavy use of irrigation. C) Lack of rainfall. D) High altitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heavy use of irrigation. 54. What type of lines RUN east to west and MEASURE how far north or south you are from the equator? A) Longitude. B) Latitude. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Latitude. 55. What is the name of the ocean near Antractica? A) Arctic Ocean. B) Indian Ocean. C) Southern Ocean. D) Atlantic Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Southern Ocean. 56. What is a political map used for? A) To display weather patterns and climate zones. B) To show geographical features like mountains and rivers. C) To illustrate historical events and timelines. D) A political map is used to display political boundaries and locations of countries, states, and cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A political map is used to display political boundaries and locations of countries, states, and cities. 57. It is a land surface higher than the local area A) Hill. B) Mountain. C) Plain. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hill. 58. The endogenic forces are otherwise known as ..... A) Tectonic forces. B) Gradational forces. C) None. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tectonic forces. 59. The hottest place in the United States is located in A) Sierra Nevada. B) Death Valley. C) Memphis in the summer. D) Great Plains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Death Valley. 60. Explains where something is A) Human/Env Interaction. B) Location. C) Place. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Location. Next →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 2Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 3Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 4Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 5Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 6Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 7Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 8Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books