Earth Science Quiz

Geographic Landforms and Travel Destinations Quiz

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This narrow strip of land connects 2 larger landmasses, like in Panama or the Suez in Egypt:

  1. strait
  2. plateau
  3. isthmus
  4. delta
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

These groups of islands make up countries like the Philippines, Japan, the UK, and Bahamas:

  1. island
  2. archipelago
  3. strait
  4. isthmus
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

These smaller, rocky, isolated hills often have steep vertical sides and flat tops:

  1. arch
  2. cliff
  3. canyon
  4. butte
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

These natural landforms can be seen in Utah, France, Mexico, Chile, and China:

  1. arch
  2. butte
  3. delta
  4. isthmus
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

These large, steep landforms make up the Rockies, Andes, Himalayas, Andes, Alps, & Pyrenees:

  1. plateaus
  2. cliffs
  3. canyons
  4. mountains
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

These long, scenic, narrow inlets in Norway & Iceland have steep cliffs created by glaciers:

  1. icebergs
  2. deltas
  3. fjords
  4. peninsulas
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This hollow space underground in France holds some of the oldest paleolithic paintings:

  1. French Alps
  2. Gorges du Verdon Canyon
  3. Chauvet Cave
  4. Loire River
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The famous Côte d'Azur, along the Mediterranean in France, would be this type of landform:

  1. coastline
  2. island
  3. archipelago
  4. inlet
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This enormous, deep, narrow valley eroded by the Colorado River is a famous spot in Arizona:

  1. Hoover Dam
  2. Grand Canyon
  3. Coyote Buttes
  4. Havasu Falls
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If you went on a cruise, you likely visited a piece of land surrounded entirely by water:

  1. peninsula
  2. delta
  3. isthmus
  4. island
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

This body of water, partially surrounded by land, is a famous vacation spot in California:

  1. Lake Tahoe
  2. Tenaya Lake
  3. San Francisco Bay
  4. Cabrillo Tide Pools
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Home to Stonehenge, this landform covers about 300 square miles in south-central England:

  1. Cheviot Hills
  2. Salisbury Plain
  3. white cliffs of Dover
  4. Cumbrian Mountains
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If you traveled to the beach or the desert, you may have seen a hill made of sand known as:

  1. a dune
  2. a mountain
  3. a sandbar
  4. an isthmus
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Florida, known for Disney World, beaches, and Kennedy Space Center is this type of landform:

  1. isthmus
  2. island
  3. mountain
  4. peninsula
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Located in Hawaii, Mauno Loa is famous for being the largest of this type of landform:

  1. island
  2. archipelago
  3. volcano
  4. peninsula