This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Arts Humanities > Geography > Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Geography Chapter 3 Landforms Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Landforms are physical features that have experienced changes from their original shape due to the forces of plate tectonics and erosion. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. A valley is low land in between mountains. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Michigan has an Upper and a ..... Peninsula. A) Higher. B) Lower. C) Chunky. D) Funky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lower. 4. A large area of water that is surrounded by land. A) River. B) Lake. C) Ocean. D) Pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake. 5. A ..... is an area with features that make it different from other areas. A) Hemisphere. B) Continent. C) Region. D) Landform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Region. 6. Community preparedness is A) Shows that hazards can vary over time. B) Involves prearranged measures that aim to reduce the loss of life. C) Aims to protect people, their possessions and the built environment. D) Such hazards are part of living in that area. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Involves prearranged measures that aim to reduce the loss of life. 7. What is the definition of Archipelago? A) A chain or group of islands. B) A large desert area. C) A mountain range. D) A deep ocean trench. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A chain or group of islands. 8. What is the definition for place? A) Describing where a place is located on the surface of the Earth. B) The way humans interact with their environment. C) Describes characteristics of an area ( What's it like?). D) The way people, goods, and ideas get from place to place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Describes characteristics of an area ( What's it like?). 9. Flat area on top with steep walls. Usually occurs in dry areas A) Butte. B) Isthmus. C) Mesa. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mesa. 10. A narrow stretch of land connecting 2 larger land areas is called a(n): A) Harbor. B) Strait. C) Channel. D) Isthmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isthmus. 11. How Far Up a River Ocean-Going Vessels can Travel A) Discharge. B) Drainage Area. C) Length. D) Navigabilty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Navigabilty. 12. All of the continents were once part of one large continent called ..... A) Gondwana. B) North America. C) Panacea. D) Pangea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pangea. 13. Latitude and longitude A) Human-environment interaction. B) Place. C) Region. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Location. 14. What famous river in Florida forms a delta? A) Nile River. B) Suwannee River. C) Mississippi River. D) Amazon River. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Suwannee River. 15. A volcanic activity in November, ..... , gave rise to a small island in Japan. A) 2017. B) 2016. C) 2014. D) 2015. E) 2013. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 2013. 16. What is the landform described as 'A large steep hill (high elevation)'? A) Mountain. B) Valley. C) Plain. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mountain. 17. Low flat land along a river. A) Natural Resources. B) Dairy Queen. C) River Source. D) Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River Source. 18. A raised landmass, a mound less than 900 feet tall A) Butte. B) Hill. C) Mesa. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hill. 19. Piece of land projecting into the sea A) Atoll. B) Cape. C) Fjord. D) Tributary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cape. 20. The Great Plains is an area of ..... A) Land surrounded by water. B) Flat, Dry land. C) Volcanoes. D) Beaches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat, Dry land. 21. What is a harbor? A) A sheltered place along the shoreline where ships can anchor safely. B) A small river or stream that flows into a larger river or stream. C) The place where a river or stream begins. D) The place where a river or stream flows into a larger body of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sheltered place along the shoreline where ships can anchor safely. 22. A scientist who studies Earth A) Scientist. B) Historian. C) Astronomer. D) Geologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geologist. 23.  What is an isthmus? A) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side. B) A large, flat area of land that is higher than the surrounding land. C) A body of water surrounded by land. D) A large, flat, elevated area of landTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas, usually with water on either side. 24. The rainy Cascade Mountains contain a string of A) Seas. B) Craters. C) Volcanoes. D) Deserts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Volcanoes. 25. What type of rock forms horizontal layers or strata? A) Igneous rock. B) Metamorphic rock. C) Granite. D) Sedimentary rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sedimentary rock. 26. Northeast, southeast, northwest, southwest A) Intermediate directions. B) Relative location. C) Plateau. D) Absolute location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intermediate directions. 27. A ..... is a huge, slow-moving sheet of ice. A) Hemisphere. B) Glacier. C) Continent. D) Valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glacier. 28. The theory that states that pieces of Earth's crust are in constant, slow motion is the theory of ..... A) Continental eruption. B) Plate tectonics. C) Plate boundaries. D) Lithospheric drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plate tectonics. 29. Which landform is a large group of islands stretching across the northern portion of the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola? A) Lesser Antilles. B) Baja Peninsula. C) Greater Antilles. D) Amazon Rainforest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greater Antilles. 30. The ocean on the west side of the USA is the (a) A) A. Pacific. B) Southern. C) Indian. D) Atlantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Pacific. 31. The rock has large crystals. This is probably because A) The rock cooled slowly beneath the Earth's surface. B) The rock cooled quickly above the Earth's surface. C) The rock was composed of organic matter. D) The rock fell to Earth from space. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rock cooled slowly beneath the Earth's surface. 32. Which process is primarily responsible for the formation of soil? A) Compaction. B) Deposition. C) Erosion. D) Weathering. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weathering. 33. What is Earth's largest continent? A) Antarctica. B) Asia. C) North America. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asia. 34. The relationships between humans and the environment in which they live A) Region. B) Movement. C) Place. D) Human/Env Interaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Human/Env Interaction. 35. Which of the following relief feature is known as tablelands? A) Hills. B) Plain. C) Plateau. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plateau. 36. Earth's surface is constantly changing and new landforms are constantly taking shape due to natural processes. Which landform is most likely caused by deposition? A) Caves. B) Deltas. C) Lakes. D) Valleys. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deltas. 37. What is the name of our state? A) Florida. B) Milledgeville. C) Georgia. D) Texas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Georgia. 38. Which river forms floodplains? A) Rivers originating in mountains. B) Rivers originating in plateaus. C) Rivers in deserts. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rivers originating in mountains. 39. Divergent Plate Boundaries are: A) When the tectonic plates are moving apart. B) When one tectonic plate pushes under another. C) When the tectonic plates crash into each other. D) When the tectonic plates rub past each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the tectonic plates are moving apart. 40. Spongy area, looks dry but is covered with wet organic material A) Weathering. B) Gulf. C) Isthmus. D) Bog. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bog. 41. Sediment Bending Up When Pushed from Both Sides A) Faults. B) Folds. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folds. 42. During the ..... , massive sheets of ice called ..... covered most of New York. A) Ice Age, ice fields. B) Revolution, glaciers. C) Ice Age, glaciers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ice Age, glaciers. 43. A large landform that rises above the surrounding land, usually in the form of a peak is a ..... A) Plateau. B) Plain. C) Continent. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mountain. 44. What is white and cold and falls from the sky? A) Island. B) Water. C) Field. D) Snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snow. 45. How many seas and oceans are around Trinidad? A) 7. B) 4. C) 1. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 46. A large area of flat land. A) Delta. B) Hill. C) Plain. D) Canyon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plain. 47. A series of connected mountains A) Archipelago. B) Mountain Range. C) Peninsula. D) Strait. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mountain Range. 48. The world's oceans cover more space than the continents. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. What are the names of the seven continents? A) Antarctica, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Africa. B) Asia, North America, Greenland, South America, Australia, Africa, Europe. C) Antarctica, Asia, North America, South America, North Pole, Africa, Europe. D) Antarctica, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antarctica, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, Europe. 50.  Identify the landform that is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides. A) Gulf. B) Peninsula. C) Bay. D) DesertTagsDOK Level 1:Recall. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peninsula. 51. Which of the following are mountain ranges in the United States? A) Appalachian. B) Sierra Nevada. C) Rocky. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 52. What is the difference between a globe and a map? A) A globe is flat and easier to carry than a map. B) Maps are always more accurate than globes. C) A globe is three-dimensional and accurate in shape, while a map is two-dimensional and may distort features. D) A globe shows only political boundaries, while a map shows physical features. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A globe is three-dimensional and accurate in shape, while a map is two-dimensional and may distort features. 53. The Ring of Fire is a ..... shape. A) Upside down horse shoe. B) Upside down U. C) U. D) Horse shoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upside down horse shoe. 54. What is an abyssal plain? A) The great plains that mostly grasses with very few trees. B) Flat underwater plains. C) Areas of land surrounded by water. D) Area of land surrounded by water on three sides and connected to a main land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat underwater plains. 55. Total Land Drained by the River A) Drainage Area. B) Navigabilty. C) Length. D) Discharge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drainage Area. 56. One of the well known sand dunes in Michigan are the: A) Awake Bear Dunes. B) Turtle Dunes. C) Sleeping Bear Dunes. D) Long Dunes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleeping Bear Dunes. 57. A piece of land that is surrounded by water from three sides such as the state of Florida A) Hill. B) Penninsula. C) Valley. D) Plateau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penninsula. 58. Lake Mary and Sanford are a part of which landform region? A) The Coastal Plains. B) The Central Ridge. C) The Northern Highlands. D) The Florida Keys. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Central Ridge. 59. Deposits of soil and rock at the mouth of a river A) Alluvial fan. B) Volcano. C) Creek. D) Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alluvial fan. 60. What is not a continent? A) Austraila. B) Europe. C) Austria. D) Africa. 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