Landform Quiz

1. What am I?
A Landforms Quiz
Circle A, B, or C
on your answer sheet.

2. Good Luck!!

3. • I am a huge mass of ice
that flows slowly over land.
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4. 1. What am I?
• A- a delta
• B- a swamp
• C – a glacier

5. • I am a low place between
mountains.
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6. 2. What Am I?
• A- a valley
• B- a cape
• C – a plateau

7. • I am a deposit of silt or mineral
particles brought by wind.
3.

8. 3. What Am I?
• A- a cliff
• B- a fault
• C – a loess

9. • I am a very dry area.
4.

10. 4. What Am I?
• A- desert
• B- prairie
• C – coast

11. • I am an area of flat land that is
higher than the land around it.
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12. 5. What Am I?
• A- plains
• B- a plateau
• C – a canyon

13. • I am a piece of land that is
surrounded by water on all
sides.
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14. 6. What Am I?
• A- an isthmus
• B- a peninsula
• C – an island

15. • I am a steep face of rock
and soil
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16. 7. What Am I?
• A- an archipelago
• B- a cliff
• C – a hill

17. • I am a deep valley with very steep
sides - often carved from the Earth
by a river
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18. 8. What Am I?
• A- a canyon
• B- a mesa
• C – a plateau

19. • I am flat lands that have only
small changes in elevation.
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20. 9. What Am I?
• A- a dune
• B- swamp
• C – plains

21. • I am the land next to or near
the sea.
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22. 10. What Am I?
• A- a coast
• B- a waterfall
• C – a loess

23. • I am a type of
freshwater wetland
that has spongy,
muddy land and a lot
of water.
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24. 11. What Am I?
• A- a mesa
• B- a swamp
• C – a peninsula

25. • I am a natural stream of water that
falls from a high place
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26. 12. What Am I?
• A- a delta
• B- a waterfall
• C – a canyon

27. • I am group or chain of islands
clustered together in a sea or
ocean.
13.

28. 13. What Am I?
• A- a cape
• B- a delta
• C – an archipelago

29. • I am a narrow strip of land connecting two
larger landmasses. I have water on 2
sides. .
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30. 14. What Am I?
• A- an island
• B- a peninsula
• C – an isthmus

31. • I am a pointed piece of land that sticks out
into a sea, ocean, lake, or river.
15.

32. 15. What Am I?
• A- a peninsula
• B- a cape
• C – hill

33. • I am a body of land that is
surrounded by water on three sides
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34. 16. What Am I?
• A- a peninsula
• B- an isthmus
• C – a valley

35. • I am a land formation with a flat area on top
and steep walls - usually occurring in dry areas
17.

36. 17. What Am I?
• A- a desert
• B- a dune
• C – a mesa

37. • I am a raised area or mound of land.
18.

38. 18. What Am I?
• A- a swamp
• B- a prairie
• C – a hill

39. • I am a ridge of
sand created
by the wind;
found in
deserts or
near lakes and
oceans
19.

40. 19. What Am I?
• A- a dune
• B- a hill
• C – plains

41. • I am a fan shaped deposit of
earth materials at the mouth of
a stream or river.
20.

42. 20. What Am I?
• A- a glacier
• B- a delta
• C – a loess

43. • I am a
mountainous
vent in the
Earth's crust.
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44. 21. What Am I?
• A- a fault
• B- a mountain
• C – a volcano

45. • I am a
fracture, or
crack, in
rocks along
which
movement has
taken place
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46. 22. What Am I?
• A- a fault
• B- a dune
• C – a coast

47. • I am a very tall high, natural place
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48. 23. What Am I?
• A- a mountain
• B- a valley
• C – a swamp

49. • I am a wide, relatively flat area of land
that has grasses and only a few trees
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50. 24. What Am I?
• A- an island
• B- a prairie
• C – a canyon

51. THE END