This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Folding, faulting and uplifting are processes that occur as a result of tectonic activity. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Which natural wonder was the site of New York's first state park? A) Niagara Falls. B) The Adirondack Mountains. C) The Hudson River. D) The Finger Lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Niagara Falls. 3. A large area of high, flat, or gently rolling land A) Hill. B) Plain. C) Mountain. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plateau. 4. Large area of flat grasslands A) Plain. B) River. C) Ocean. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plain. 5. The breaking down of rock due to wind, water, temperature, and plants A) Longitude. B) Weathering. C) Compass rose. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 6.  What is a mesa? A) A large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land. B) An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, larger than a butte. C) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. D) A large body of saltwater surrounded by landTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An isolated flat-topped hill with steep sides, larger than a butte. 7. What is a canyon? A) The wearing away of earth's surface through the movement of rocks and soil by wind or water. B) Mountains whose tops have worn away or eroded. It means 'table' in Spanish. C) Formed by rivers or glaciers cutting through the earth after thousands of years. D) Carved by fast flowing rivers with high cliffs on the sides. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carved by fast flowing rivers with high cliffs on the sides. 8. A flat-topped table land standing above the surrounding area A) Graben. B) Plateau. C) Gorge. D) Horsts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plateau. 9. A narrow strip of land that connects two larger landmasses and separates two bodies of water A) Isthmus. B) Plain. C) Piedmont. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Isthmus. 10. On which of the following regions would you most likely find good land for grazing animals such at cattle? A) Great Plains. B) Rocky Mountains. C) Canadian Shield. D) Atlantic Coastal Plain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Plains. 11. What is the capital of Ohio? A) Cincinnati. B) Columbus. C) Cleveland. D) Dayton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Columbus. 12. A group or chain of islands A) Archipelago. B) Estuary. C) Strait. D) Bay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archipelago. 13. Which part of a map explains the symbols used on the map? A) Scale. B) Legend. C) Compass rose. D) GridTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legend. 14. A valley is a low place between mountains. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. What is the process called when sedimentary rock forms horizontal layers or strata and is squeezed or compressed, resulting in arches called anticlines and troughs called synclines? A) Faulting. B) Weathering. C) Folding. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folding. 16. Boundary between ocean and landforms A) Coast. B) Mountain. C) River. D) Cliff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coast. 17. What is a secondary source? A) A source created by someone who was there at the time of an event. B) A source created by someone who was NOT there at the time of an event. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A source created by someone who was NOT there at the time of an event. 18. Climate and landforms A) Place. B) Region. C) Movement. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Region. 19. A mountain is the ..... landform on earth? A) Lowest. B) Flattest. C) Highest. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Highest. 20. Which definition describes a coast? A) Steep cliffs with valleys between them. B) Flat land. C) Land surrounded by water on all sides. D) Where the land meets the sea/water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Where the land meets the sea/water. 21. What body of water contains saltwater? A) Lakes. B) Oceans. C) Rivers. D) Ponds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oceans. 22. Appalachians in North America is A) Young Fold Mountain. B) Old fold mountain. C) Block Mountain. D) Volcanic Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old fold mountain. 23. ..... are features of land, such as mountains and rivers. A) Regions. B) Physical features. C) Culture. D) Human features. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical features. 24. What can maps tell you? A) How an area feels. B) How an area looks. C) How an area smells. D) How an area sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How an area looks. 25. What is the capital of Tennessee? A) Nashville. B) Knoxville. C) Chattanooga. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nashville. 26. A strait is a(n): A) Group of islands (like Hawaii). B) Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas. C) Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water. D) Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water. 27. Which landforms do you think are best for farming? Why? A) Deserts, because they are dry. B) Mountains, because they are high. C) Valleys, because they have rich soil. D) Forests, because they have many trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Valleys, because they have rich soil. 28. The place where a river begins A) Harbor. B) Source. C) Coast. D) Mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Source. 29. A narrow stretch of land that is Almost surrounded by water. It has water on 3 sides. A) Cape. B) Peninsula. C) Isthmus. D) Summit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peninsula. 30. Which definition best defines a continental shelf? A) The sharp slope at the end of a continent. B) An underwater plain. C) The ocean floor along the coast covered by shallow water and gradually slopes down. D) Mountains completely underneath the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ocean floor along the coast covered by shallow water and gradually slopes down. 31. Which landform best describes low land between hills or a mountain? A) Plain. B) Volcano. C) Valley. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Valley. 32. What does the scale on a map represent? A) The direction of north. B) The distance between two points. C) The type of terrain. D) The population densityTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The distance between two points. 33. A sudden shaking of the earth A) Earthquake. B) Landslide. C) Floods. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earthquake. 34. A landform that is completely surrounded by water. A) Archipelago. B) Island. C) Cape. D) Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Island. 35. Waterfalls can be formed both both in mountains and plateaus. True of false? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. The Southern Ocean is located between South America and Europe. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. A man-made waterway, often with steep, straight sides used for shipping or irrigation. A) Passage. B) Lake. C) Mountain. D) Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canal. 38. A large area of flat land with few trees A) $Mountain$. B) $glacier$. C) $plain$. D) $plateau$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $plain$. 39. Measures and records the magnitude of the earthquake A) Lava. B) Seismograph. C) Richter scale. D) Themometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seismograph. 40. An arm of the sea, such as the Hudson River is known as a(n) ..... A) Ocean. B) Estuary. C) Tributary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Estuary. 41. A large area of flat land with few trees is classified as which type of landform? A) Field. B) Plain. C) Forest. D) Desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plain. 42. A soft weak layer under the lithosphere A) Asthenosphere. B) Earth. C) Magma. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Asthenosphere. 43. What is the primary process that leads to the formation of V-shaped valleys? A) Formation of oxbow lakes. B) Lateral erosion. C) Deposition of sediment. D) Vertical erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertical erosion. 44. What map feature shows us how to measure distance? A) Scale. B) Symbol. C) Compass rose. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scale. 45. Transform Plate Boundaries are: A) When one tectonic plate pushes under another. B) When the tectonic plates are moving apart. C) When the tectonic plates rub past each other. D) When the tectonic plates crash into each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When the tectonic plates rub past each other. 46. The world's tallest mountain is A) Mount Everest. B) Mount Elbert. C) Mt. Denali. D) Mt. St. Helens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mount Everest. 47. Which of the following is a physical feature of the Earth? A) Language. B) Culture. C) River. D) EconomyTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River. 48. Humans adapt to the environment by wearing appropriate clothes in different types of weather. A) Movement. B) Location. C) Place. D) Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interaction. 49. A narrow piece or land connecting 2 large pieces of land A) Weathering. B) Bog. C) Gulf. D) Isthmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isthmus. 50. Something built by humans is a ..... A) Physical feature. B) Region. C) Culture. D) Human feature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human feature. 51. A river is a body of water that is surrounded by land. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. What state is Tulsa in? A) Oklahoma. B) Kansas. C) Nebraska. D) South Dakota. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oklahoma. 53. The place where a river empties into an ocean, lake, or a larger river A) Mouth. B) Source. C) River. D) Harbor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mouth. 54. What can cause a tsunami? A) Earthquake. B) Volcanic eruption. C) Underwater landslide. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 55. The LITHOSPHERE is the rigid outer part of the earth's crust and upper mantle, divided into tectonic plates. Collisions and separations of the plates result in landforms.What does the prefix "litho" mean? A) Stone. B) Ground. C) Life. D) Soft. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stone. 56. SIFA is about 3 miles away and right next to Tiyan High School ..... is an example of? A) TIme Location. B) Movement Location. C) Absolute Location. D) Relative Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relative Location. 57. Land formed at the mouth of a river by deposited silt. Fan or triangle shaped A) Continental divide. B) Delta. C) Gap. D) Key. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delta. 58. What are the natural shapes that make up the Earth's surface called? A) Earthquakes. B) Volcanoes. C) Landforms. D) Erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Landforms. 59. Which of the following is the peninsular plateau? A) North. B) Deccan. C) Chotanagpur. D) Sahara. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deccan. 60. Earthquakes usually occur along ..... A) Mountain ranges. B) Faults. C) Epicentres. D) Seismic waves. 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