This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What can boats float on? A) Cliff. B) Water. C) Mountain. D) Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 2. What are the oldest mountains in North America? A) The Cascade Range. B) The Rocky Mountains. C) The Appalachian Mountains. D) The Sierra Nevada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Appalachian Mountains. 3. Each letter on the compass shows a direction. The letters N, S, E, W are on the compass. What do those letters stand for? A) Never eat sour worms. B) North, South, East, West. C) Never eat soggy waffles. D) NEWS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) North, South, East, West. 4. What is a meander? A) The winding course of a river. B) A mass of land which extends in some part of the sea or ocean. C) A mass of land surrounded by water on 3 sides. D) A thin strip of land which joins 2 land bodies and separates 2 water bodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The winding course of a river. 5. Evidence of the Flood A) Sedimentation. B) Non-Renewable Resources. C) Tectonic Plates. D) Climate Change. E) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the Above. 6. Human characteristics is determined by nature such as mountains, climate, and rivers. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. What 2 pieces of evidence are there for continental drift? A) Continents fit like a jigsaw puzzle and fossil record. B) Similar mountain ranges around the world, one plant species on all continents. C) Gold and diamond deposits on all continents. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continents fit like a jigsaw puzzle and fossil record. 8. Pick the correct word to complete the following sentence.The place where a river begins is called ..... A) The ocean. B) The channel. C) The source of the river. D) The course. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The source of the river. 9. What are the main types of landforms found on Earth? A) Ridges, slopes, dales, basins, plateaus, estuaries, channels, reservoirs. B) Mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, valleys, deserts, rivers, lakes. C) Islands, volcanoes, tundras, savannas, plateaus, wetlands, bays, creeks. D) Canyons, cliffs, fjords, swamps, marshes, oceans, streams, ponds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, valleys, deserts, rivers, lakes. 10. Which landform is a group of connected mountains? A) Valley. B) Mountain Range. C) Plains. D) Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountain Range. 11. Where can you find Machu Picchu? A) Paraguay. B) Peru. C) Bolivia. D) Chile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peru. 12. Fill in the blanks:The Deccan plateau is a ..... plateau. A) Lava/Volcanic. B) Dissected. C) Continental. D) Intermontane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava/Volcanic. 13. Which of the following landforms supplies the largest amount of freshwater on earth? A) The Chattahoochee River. B) The Great Lakes. C) The Atlantic Coastal Plain. D) The Great Divide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Great Lakes. 14. Which of the following is also a landform as a tableland? A) Mountain. B) Plateau. C) Plain. D) Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plain. 15. Which landform is formed by the erosion of a river? A) Mountain. B) Plateau. C) River valley. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River valley. 16. Which type of tree is common in montane forests? A) Coconut trees. B) Banyan trees. C) Mango trees. D) Conifer trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conifer trees. 17. Vast body of salt water. A) Ocean. B) Lake. C) Valley. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ocean. 18. A ..... is one of the seven largest land areas on Earth. A) Region. B) Continent. C) Hemisphere. D) Landform. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continent. 19. An area of land that is completely surrounded by water. A) Plain. B) Isthmus. C) Island. D) Peninsula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Island. 20. Visible STANDING WATER with PLANTS that survive with wet roots A) Bog. B) Marsh. C) Desert. D) Swamp/Bayou. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marsh. 21. Region is not defined by common characteristics sush as language and culture A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. Land with steep sides that rises sharply (1, 000 feet or more) from surrounding land, generally larger and more rugged than a hill A) Valley. B) Oasis. C) Mountain. D) Plain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountain. 23. What is the capital of Washington? A) Olympia. B) Seattle. C) Salem. D) Portland. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Olympia. 24. What is the definition of Mountain? A) Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica. B) Any natural formation of rock and dirt that is found on earth. C) When all the continents were one big landmass millions of years ago. D) Any part of the earth's surface that stands much higher than its surroundings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any part of the earth's surface that stands much higher than its surroundings. 25. A list that explains the symbols on a map. A) Legend (key). B) Compass rose. C) Cardinal directions. D) Inset map. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legend (key). 26. Place where the land divides the drainage of water from the highest summit of mountains A) Mesa. B) Continental divide. C) River. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continental divide. 27. What are the three types of weathering? A) Physical, Glacial, Mass-Wasting. B) Physical, Chemical, Biological. C) Biological, Depositional, Chemical. D) Physical, Biological, Mass-Wasting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical, Chemical, Biological. 28. What is a channel (NOT the kind on You Tube or your TV)? A) Narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas. B) Flat, low-lying land built up from soil carried downstream by a river. C) Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses. D) Deep, narrow valley with steep walls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses. 29. What causes the formation of a waterfall? A) The deposition of sediment along the river bank. B) The lateral erosion of a river. C) The formation of oxbow lakes. D) Horizontal bands of resistant rock over less resistant rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horizontal bands of resistant rock over less resistant rock. 30. Which landform stretches over 4, 500 miles north-to-south and is home to diverse ecosystems? A) Isthmus of Panama. B) Andes Mountains. C) Baja Peninsula. D) Greater Antilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andes Mountains. 31. The way information, people, and products travel around the world. A) Place. B) Location. C) Region. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement. 32. A body of water completely surrounded by water. A) Island. B) Isthmus. C) Lake. D) Waterfall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lake. 33. Most rivers begin in the mountains and end by flowing into ..... A) Creeks. B) Lakes and ponds. C) Other rivers. D) The ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ocean. 34. Low, water land that is formed at the mouth of a river. A) Island. B) Isthmus. C) Delta. D) Gulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Delta. 35. Any river that flows into another larger river A) Tributary. B) Island. C) Bay. D) Lake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tributary. 36. The low areas between mountains A) Plateaus. B) Estuarys. C) Plains. D) Valleys. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Valleys. 37. What is the definition of Plain? A) A nearly flat or gently rolling land. B) A large body of salt water. C) A high, steep face of rock. D) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A nearly flat or gently rolling land. 38. Which of the following is a smaller river or stream that feeds into a larger river? A) Tributary. B) Bay. C) Delta. D) PeninsulaTagsDOK Level 2:Skill/Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tributary. 39. What is a smaller part of an ocean that is partially enclosed by land? A) Sea. B) Peninsula. C) Bay/Gulf. D) Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sea. 40. A lake is a body of water that flows towards an ocean. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 41. What is the name of the process by which Earth renews and reproduces itself through the decay and disintegration of rocks? A) Subduction. B) Weathering. C) Erosion. D) Sedimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Weathering. 42. The Amazon is a very long: A) Mountain. B) Lake. C) River. D) Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River. 43. What is the oldest city in the world? A) Rome. B) Athens. C) Jerusalem. D) Damascus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Damascus. 44. What is the key on the map? A) Pictures of mountains and rivers. B) To unlock the door. C) A plus sign. D) It is a box explaining what each picture on the map is trying to show. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is a box explaining what each picture on the map is trying to show. 45. Which type of natural resource describes a resource that can come back easily? A) Fossil fuel. B) Renewable. C) Mineral. D) Non-renewable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renewable. 46. What is it like there? A) Movement. B) Place. C) Region. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Place. 47. As the continental plates pull apart in East Africa, huge cracks have appeared on the earth's surface then cause the land to sink. What distinctive landform had formed here? A) Gorges. B) Rift Valleys. C) Mountains. D) Escarpments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rift Valleys. 48. A dry area of land that receives less than 10 inches of precipitation (rainfall) per year. A) Canyon. B) Desert. C) Mountain. D) Prairie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desert. 49. The four main directions on a compass rose:north, south, east, and west A) Relative location. B) Weathering. C) Absolute location. D) Cardinal directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cardinal directions. 50. It is the largest body of water. A) Ocean. B) Lake. C) Sea. D) River. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ocean. 51.  Which landform is characterized by steep sides and a narrow bottom, often formed by river erosion? A) Peninsula. B) Canyon. C) Plateau. D) GulfTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Canyon. 52. Florida's landforms have NOT been created by which of the following? A) Wind and water depostion. B) Wind and water erosion. C) Glacial erosion and deposition. D) Chemical (carbonic acid) dissolving and depositing rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Glacial erosion and deposition. 53. A narrow stretch of water that connects two different larger bodies of water. (Made by nature.) A) Peak. B) Straight. C) Valley. D) Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Straight. 54. A Sound in New York State is A) Lake Erie. B) Long Island. C) Albany. D) Binghamton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long Island. 55. A desert is usually formed in region with: A) No sunlight. B) Vert heavy rain. C) Cold climate. D) Very little rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Very little rain. 56. Which of the following is the largest continent? A) Asia. B) North America. C) South America. D) Antarctica. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antarctica. 57. What is the definition of Landform? A) Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica. B) Any natural formation of rock and dirt that is found on earth. C) When all the continents were one big landmass millions of years ago. D) Any part of the earth's surface that stands much higher than its surroundings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any natural formation of rock and dirt that is found on earth. 58. Puerto Rico and Hawaii are examples of A) Peninsulas. B) Oceans. C) Islands. D) Plateaus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Islands. 59. A narrow stretch of land ( "land bridge" ) connecting 2 larger bodies of land. A) Peak. B) Isthmus. C) Valley. D) Cape. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isthmus. 60. What is the geological definition of a shield? A) The base rock of an ancient mountain region that has been worn away, leaving a flat, rocky landform region. B) Something you use to protect yourself. C) A low area of land between hills or mountains, typically with a river or stream running through it. D) A high, flat region that has been lifted up by surface movement. 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