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Name: _________________
Landforms Quiz
Date: _________
1. Which of the following is an example of a landform?
a. lake
b. gas
c. valley
d. skin
2. What creates Earth's canyons?
a. wind
b. rivers
sediment
c. rain
Name: _________________
Landforms Quiz
Date: _________
1. Which of the following is an example of a landform?
a. lake
b. gas
c. valley
d. skin
d.
2. What creates Earth's canyons?
a. wind
b. rivers
sediment
c. rain
d.
3. What landform rises above the land to a peak?
a. mountain b. plateau
c. delta
d. valley
3. What landform rises above the land to a peak?
a. mountain b. plateau
c. delta
d. valley
4. What best describes a plain?
a. rocky
b. grassy
c. steep
4. What best describes a plain?
a. rocky
b. grassy
c. steep
d. wet
5. How many sides is a peninsula surrounded by water on?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
d. wet
5. How many sides is a peninsula surrounded by water on?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
6. Rocks, sand, and dirt are examples of what?
a. landform b. sediment
c. glacier
d. bay
6. Rocks, sand, and dirt are examples of what?
a. landform b. sediment
c. glacier
d. bay
7. What is a low area of land between mountains or hills?
a. valley
b. cliff
c. plateau
d. plain
7. What is a low area of land between mountains or hills?
a. valley
b. cliff
c. plateau
d. plain
8. What can be rocky and steep or low and sandy?
a. canyon
b. cave
c. cliff
d. coast
8. What can be rocky and steep or low and sandy?
a. canyon
b. cave
c. cliff
d. coast
9. What landform rises above the land and has a flat top?
a. mountain b. plateau
c. delta
d. valley
9. What landform rises above the land and has a flat top?
a. mountain b. plateau
c. delta
d. valley
10. What landform can be formed by volcanoes?
a. island
b. valley
c. plain
d. glacier
10. What landform can be formed by volcanoes?
a. island
b. valley
c. plain
d. glacier
11. What is a huge slow-moving sheet of ice?
a. plateau
b. mountain
c. cave
d. glacier
11. What is a huge slow-moving sheet of ice?
a. plateau
b. mountain
c. cave
d. glacier
12. What breaks down earth into sediment?
a. mountains b. weathering c. plateaus
12. What breaks down earth into sediment?
a. mountains b. weathering c. plateaus
d. valleys
d. valleys
13. What moves sediment with wind, water and ice?
a. valleys
b. deltas
c. erosion
d. canyons
13. What moves sediment with wind, water and ice?
a. valleys
b. deltas
c. erosion
d. canyons
14. Earthquakes cause plates to move; when they collide
they often create what?
a. mountains b. valleys
c. volcanoes d. canyons
14. Earthquakes cause plates to move; when they collide
they often create what?
a. mountains b. valleys
c. volcanoes d. canyons
15. Earthquakes cause plates to move; when they separate
they often create what?
a. mountains b. valleys
c. volcanoes d. canyons
15. Earthquakes cause plates to move; when they separate
they often create what?
a. mountains b. valleys
c. volcanoes d. canyons
16. When water gets into cracks in limestone, over
thousands of years it can create what?
a. glacier
b. cave
c. plain
d. island
16. When water gets into cracks in limestone, over
thousands of years it can create what?
a. glacier
b. cave
c. plain
d. island
Bonus: What can prevent erosion? ______________
Bonus: What can prevent erosion? ______________