This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What are the points of the compass starting at 12 o'clock and heading clockwise? A) North, East, South, West. B) North, South, East, West. C) East, North, south, West. D) South, West, North, East. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) North, East, South, West. 2. The shape of landforms in an area A) Cartographer. B) Deposition. C) Geography. D) Topography. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Topography. 3. The land along a sea or ocean. A) Bay. B) River. C) Coast. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coast. 4. What is the approximate height of Intermontane plateaus? A) 2000-4000 meters. B) 6000-10000 meters. C) 1000-2000 meters. D) 4000-5000 meters. E) 10000-30000 meters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4000-5000 meters. 5. Which mountain range is the Aravallis considered? A) Snow-covered mountains. B) Young mountains. C) Old mountains. D) Volcanic mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old mountains. 6. What region of the United States is New York located? A) Midwest region. B) Western region. C) Southeast region. D) Northeast region. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Northeast region. 7. What is a high point or ridge that determines the direction rivers flow called? A) Headwaters. B) Tributary. C) Divide. D) Fall line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divide. 8. Grassland Below the Arctic Circle A) Prarie. B) Tundra. C) Steppe. D) Reef. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tundra. 9. What is the primary purpose of a political map? A) To show elevation. B) To display weather patterns. C) To indicate political boundaries. D) To illustrate population densityTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To indicate political boundaries. 10. Which is NOT a type of Plateau A) Volcanic Plateau. B) Dome Plateau. C) Rift Plateau. D) Border Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rift Plateau. 11. What is the longest river in the world called? A) Euphrates River. B) Amazon River. C) Mississippi River. D) Nile River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nile River. 12. What was formed by glaciers scraping + carving out parts of land? A) The Erie Canal. B) The Great Lakes. C) The Great Plains. D) The Gulf of Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Great Lakes. 13. Lake is a body of freshwater and sea is a body of saltwater. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Any of the shapes that make up Earth's surface A) Landform. B) Geography. C) Lake. D) Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Landform. 15. What are the five regions of the United States? A) Northeast, Southwest, Midwest, West, Central West. B) Northern, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, West. C) Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, West. D) Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, Northwest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, West. 16. What is the purpose of a legend on a map? A) To provide a historical context of the area. B) The purpose of a legend on a map is to explain the symbols and colors used. C) To show the direction of north on the map. D) To indicate the scale of the map. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The purpose of a legend on a map is to explain the symbols and colors used. 17. Describe how volcanic activity can create new landforms. A) Volcanic activity creates new landforms by melting existing rocks and minerals. B) Volcanic activity primarily causes earthquakes and tsunamis, not landforms. C) Volcanic activity creates new landforms by forming lava flows, ash deposits, and volcanic structures like cones and calderas. D) Volcanic activity erodes landforms through weathering and sedimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanic activity creates new landforms by forming lava flows, ash deposits, and volcanic structures like cones and calderas. 18. What landform is a hollow space inside a mountain or another elevated landform? A) Cave. B) Ridge. C) Bridge. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cave. 19. Large inland body of water A) Volcano. B) Plain. C) Ocean. D) Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lake. 20. What is orogenesis? A) The process of rock weathering and erosion. B) The process of mountain building. C) The process of volcanic activity. D) The process of plate tectonics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of mountain building. 21. Which region can you mine for gold? A) Blue Ridge. B) Coastal Plain. C) Piedmont. D) Valley and Ridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blue Ridge. 22. A ..... is a large area of flat land with few trees usually suitable to grow crops. A) Plain. B) Hill. C) Valley. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plain. 23. Droughts have never happened in Europe A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Layer of rock below the crust A) $Glacier$. B) $Earthquake$. C) $Canyon$. D) $Mantle$. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $Mantle$. 25. What is the main characteristic of landforms in the upper course? A) They are dominantly created by erosion processes. B) They are formed by the deposition of sediment. C) They are formed by the lateral erosion of rivers. D) They are dominantly created by deposition processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are dominantly created by erosion processes. 26. Area of raised land that is lower and more rounded than a mountain A) Bay. B) Hill. C) Plain. D) Mini mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hill. 27. An extreme storm with spinning air A) Tornado. B) Tsunami. C) Heavy rain. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tornado. 28. Mountains in New York State are A) Ontario and Champlain. B) Adirondacks and Catskills. C) Long Island. D) Tug Hill and Alleghany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adirondacks and Catskills. 29. Which of the following is a major river that flows through Florida? A) Colorado River. B) Hudson River. C) Thames River. D) St. Johns River. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) St. Johns River. 30. Long, narrow body of water A) Ocean. B) River. C) Island. D) Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) River. 31. Where do we find usually the four landforms? A) Under the ground. B) In the sky. C) On the surface of the Earth. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the surface of the Earth. 32. Most of the plains are formed by rivers and their tributaries. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Identify the landform that is characterized as being isolated and smaller than a plateau. A) Mesa. B) Delta. C) Peninsula. D) BayTagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mesa. 34. What is the Coastal Plain? A) A high mountain range. B) A flat area of low land along the ocean. C) A deep valley. D) A large desert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A flat area of low land along the ocean. 35. One of the seven large landmasses on the Earth A) Plain. B) Peninsula. C) Island. D) Continent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Continent. 36. The Gulf of Mexico is the smallest gulf in the world. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 37. What state do we live in? A) Georgia. B) Tennessee. C) Alabama. D) Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alabama. 38. Which river borders the US and Mexico? A) St. Lawrence River. B) Columbia River. C) Colorado River. D) Rio Grande. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rio Grande. 39. This is the longest river in Africa and also the longest river in the world, flowing through the eastern part of Africa through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. A) Niger River. B) Congo River. C) Nile River. D) Zambezi River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nile River. 40. What is the left region of the United States called? A) Western Region. B) MidSouthern Region. C) Eastern Region. D) Northern Region. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Western Region. 41. What is the main feature of a mountain? A) No specific shape. B) Broad base, steep slopes, narrow summit. C) Very gentle slope. D) Flat surface. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Broad base, steep slopes, narrow summit. 42. ..... are the natural shapes we see on the surface of Earth. A) Craters. B) Human features. C) Lakes. D) Landforms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Landforms. 43. The exogenic forces are otherwise known as ..... A) Tectonic forces. B) Gradational forces. C) None. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gradational forces. 44. A narrow stip of land that connects two large areas of land. A) Canyon. B) Isthmus. C) Peninsula. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isthmus. 45. Saltiest Lake & Lowest Place on Earth A) Great Salt Lake. B) Lake Baikal. C) Dead Sea. D) Caspian Sea. E) Lake Superier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dead Sea. 46. An ..... is a very large body of water. It is saltwater. There are five such bodies of water on Earth. A) Pond. B) Lake. C) Ocean. D) River. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ocean. 47. TRUE OR FALSE:The Great Lakes are all connected to each other A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 48. A group of islands A) Archipelago. B) Plain. C) Plateau. D) Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archipelago. 49. Which is TRUE of Florida's topography? A) It has a great deal of relief. B) It has many locations with high elevations. C) It has many plateaus, mountains and steep valleys. D) It has many areas with elevations 50 feet or less above sea level. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It has many areas with elevations 50 feet or less above sea level. 50. What are made of ice, moved and carved out deep holes in the ground, and then melted to create the Great Lakes? A) Glaciers. B) Snowmen. C) Ice Cubes. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Glaciers. 51. What is Africa's highest mountain sitting at 19, 341 ft.? A) Mt. Kenya. B) Mt. Everest. C) Mt. Kilimanjaro. D) Mt. Olympus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mt. Kilimanjaro. 52. What is the boundary in the eastern United States where the higher land of the Piedmont drops to the lower Atlantic Coastal Plains called? A) Headwaters. B) Tributary. C) Fall line. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fall line. 53. Dropping of soil and rock A) Deposition. B) Cartographer. C) Topography. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deposition. 54. Fill in the blank: ..... is the average, annual conditions. A) Climate. B) Weather. C) Temperature. D) Precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climate. 55. Which process involves the interaction of the hydrological cycle with the rock cycle, leading to the decay and disintegration of rocks? A) Igneous processes. B) Exogenic processes. C) Tectonic processes. D) Endogenic processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exogenic processes. 56. Two well knows peninsulas are ..... A) Panama and Spain. B) Florida and Italy. C) Australia and South America. D) England and Greenland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florida and Italy. 57. What helps plants grow? A) Cliff. B) Mountain. C) Snow. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 58. What is the capital of Spain? A) Barcelona. B) Seville. C) Valencia. D) Madrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Madrid. 59. Which landforms have the tallest elevations (heights) on the earth? A) Hill. B) Mountain. C) Volcano. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountain. 60. One of the five major bodies of saltwater that surrounds the continents. A) Lakes. B) Continents. C) Oceans. D) Rivers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oceans. ← 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