This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Glaciers are usually found around the Equator. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. Mountain or hill created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the Earth A) Volcano. B) Mountain Range. C) Valley. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcano. 3. Which mountain range is the highest point in the United States located in? A) Alaska Range. B) Cascade Range. C) Sierra Nevada. D) Coast Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alaska Range. 4. The oceans cover about two-thirds or 70% of the earth's surface. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Which of the following is one of the seas that surround Trinidad? A) The Caribbean Sea. B) The Indian Ocean. C) The South China Sea. D) The Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Caribbean Sea. 6. How much of the water on earth is freshwater? A) 3%. B) 60%. C) 71%. D) 97%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3%. 7. What is a river? A) A flat area of land with few trees. B) A body of water that usually flows from highland to lowland. C) A low-lying area between two mountains or hills. D) An area of land filled with or covered by water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A body of water that usually flows from highland to lowland. 8. What is the landform described as 'A landform made of sediment that is deposited where a river flows into an ocean or lake'? A) Delta. B) Canyon. C) Plateau. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delta. 9. A very small body of water that is surrounded by land. A) Island. B) Bay. C) Pond. D) River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pond. 10. A triangular landform where a river empties into another body of water. A) Landform. B) Canyon. C) Delta. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delta. 11. The mountain regions have a huge population. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. What is NOT one of the 4 criteria for classifying rivers? A) Length. B) Discharge. C) Drainage Area. D) Navigability. E) Handsomeness. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Handsomeness. 13. Breaking down rocks A) Weathering. B) Rock weathering. C) Sheild. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weathering. 14. Which is perpendicular to the equator? A) Tropic of Cancer. B) Tropic of Capricorn. C) Prime Meridian. D) All of the options. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prime Meridian. 15. It is the land part of the earth. A) Hydrosphere. B) Atmosphere. C) Lithosphere. D) Biosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lithosphere. 16. The Mid-Ocean Ridge is a divergent fault on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean that helps explain continental drift. Which best describes where the oldest rock is on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean? A) At the very center of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. B) At the far edge of the ocean plate where it meets the continents. C) Near northern end of the ridge around Iceland. D) Near thr southern end beyond the tip of Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the far edge of the ocean plate where it meets the continents. 17. What can you ski on? A) Snow. B) Cliff. C) Lake. D) Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snow. 18. Which one is the largest and deepest ocean? A) India Ocean. B) Arctic Ocean. C) Atlantic Ocean. D) The Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Pacific Ocean. 19. A group of islands (like Hawaii), is called: A) A sizeable inland body of water. B) A group of islands (like Hawaii). C) A sheltered place along a shoreline. D) Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A group of islands (like Hawaii). 20. Lower than mountains, but higher than surrounding areas, usually covered in grass A) Hill. B) Penninsula. C) Valley. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hill. 21. 0 degree longitude line A) South Pole. B) Prime Meridian. C) Parallel Line. D) Equator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prime Meridian. 22. How high are the peaks in the Appalachian Mountains now? A) Exactly 5, 000 feet. B) Over 10, 000 feet. C) 8, 500 feet. D) No higher than 7, 000 feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No higher than 7, 000 feet. 23. Destructive waves have a A) Strong swash and strong backwash. B) Weak swash and weak backwash. C) Strong swash and weak backwash. D) Weak swash and strong backwash. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weak swash and strong backwash. 24. What landform covers just about the entire surface area of Africa allowing the continent to lie 1, 000 feet or above sea level? A) Mountain. B) Plain. C) Valley. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plateau. 25. What might you find on a prairie? A) Forests. B) Oceans. C) Mountains. D) Grasses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grasses. 26. Tool used to measure distance on a map which corresponds to a distance on the ground A) Map key. B) Map scale. C) Geography. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Map scale. 27. Release of energy through the earth is called a A) Landform. B) Lava. C) Magma. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earthquake. 28. What type of soil do you find in River-rich plains? A) Black soil. B) Alluvial soil. C) Red soil. D) Sand. E) None of the options given. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alluvial soil. 29. In which Australian state would you find the Swan River? A) Western Australia. B) QLD. C) NSW. D) Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Western Australia. 30. What would you climb? A) Lake. B) River. C) Water. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mountain. 31. What is the definition of Mesa (second definition)? A) A large land formation with a flat area on top and steep walls. B) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. C) A body of water surrounded by land. D) A deep valley with steep sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large land formation with a flat area on top and steep walls. 32. Heating and cooling systems are examples of which geography theme? A) Place. B) Movement. C) Human/Environment Interaction. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human/Environment Interaction. 33. Scientist who studies and organizes locations and spaces to learn about the world A) Geography. B) Geographer. C) Weathering. D) Cartographer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographer. 34. Which landform covers almost 1.1 million square miles and is located entirely within Latin America, home to numerous small islands? A) Caribbean Sea. B) Andes Mountains. C) Pampas. D) Isthmus of Panama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caribbean Sea. 35. As you travel to the North Pole from anywhere on Earth, in which direction are you going? A) West. B) North. C) South. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North. 36. What is a body of water partially enclosed by land called? A) Strait. B) Lagoon. C) Bay. D) Gulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bay. 37. Which of the following describes a Valley? A) A deep hollowed out area found in the side of a cliff or hill. B) A large area of land that is mostly flat, animals such as buffalo roam here. C) Land bordering the sea, ocean, or lake. Can be sandy or rocky. D) Long, low area of land between hills or mountain ranges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long, low area of land between hills or mountain ranges. 38. The edge of land that meets the sea. A) Coast. B) Plains. C) Peninsula. D) Border. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coast. 39. What is the term for a large, powerful hurricane that forms over warm ocean waters? A) Tornado. B) Typhoon. C) Cyclone. D) Hurricane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hurricane. 40. A low area between hills or mountains, sometimes with a river running through it is a ..... A) Landform. B) Valley. C) Mountain. D) Hemisphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valley. 41. Which of the following is located between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ranges? A) Great Plains. B) Central Lowlands. C) Columbia Plateau. D) Atlantic Coastal PlainTagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Columbia Plateau. 42. What is geomorphology? A) The study of landforms and their significance. B) The study of weather patterns. C) The study of plate tectonics. D) The study of ocean currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of landforms and their significance. 43. The surface features of the Earth are called: A) Climate. B) Landforms. C) Weather. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Landforms. 44. What is sediment? A) Cooled lava flows that have formed land. B) Tiny particles of sand, clay and silt that are carried by wind, water or ice and deposited in different places. C) A small part of a canyon. D) A wide, flat area of land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tiny particles of sand, clay and silt that are carried by wind, water or ice and deposited in different places. 45. Can you predict a volcanic eruption? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 46. When people change their surroundings to meet their needs. A) HEI. B) EROSION. C) TECTONIC PLATES. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HEI. 47. How were many of New York's lakes formed? A) They were valleys that filled with water after years of rain. B) They were carved by glaciers and filled with water from melting ice. C) New York's earlier settlers dug the lakes. D) They were created by an earthquake at the end of the Ice Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were carved by glaciers and filled with water from melting ice. 48. Flowing water that empties into a larger body of water in another river. A) River. B) Ocean. C) Pond. D) Puddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) River. 49. What ocean is WEST of the United States? A) Arctic. B) Atlantic. C) Southern. D) Pacific. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pacific. 50. What direction do lines of latitude run? A) West and North. B) East and West. C) East and South. D) South and North. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) East and West. 51. Which type of rock forms when magma is pushed out on the surface, cools, and solidifies? A) Volcanic rock. B) Metamorphic rock. C) Igneous rock. D) Sedimentary rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Igneous rock. 52. A small body of water formed by a cape or peninsula. A) Narrow. B) River. C) Gulf. D) Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bay. 53. What do we call a flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river? A) Plain. B) Isthmus. C) Canyon. D) Delta. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delta. 54. Which landform is typically created by the movement and deposition of sand by wind, especially near beaches? A) Dunes. B) Rivers. C) Deltas. D) Lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dunes. 55. What is flat land where plants can grow? A) Cliff. B) Mountain. C) Lake. D) Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Field. 56. Which landform is formed by the collision of two tectonic plates? A) Valley. B) Canyon. C) Mountain range. D) Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountain range. 57. What is the definition of Cape? A) A small piece of land jutting in the sea or ocean. B) A large body of water surrounded by land. C) A mountain range. D) A desert area. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A small piece of land jutting in the sea or ocean. 58. What is the capital city of Australia? A) Sydney. B) Melbourne. C) Perth. D) Canberra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canberra. 59. The Nile is the Best for this Section A) Discharge. B) Length. C) Navigabilty. D) Drainage Area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Length. 60. What was a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth? A) Pangea. B) America. C) Europe. D) Eurasia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pangea. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesArts Humanities QuizzesClass 11 QuizzesClass 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 1Class 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 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books