Earth Science Quiz
Geographic Landforms and Travel Destinations Quiz
Questions
This narrow strip of land connects 2 larger landmasses, like in Panama or the Suez in Egypt:
- strait
- plateau
- isthmus
- delta
These groups of islands make up countries like the Philippines, Japan, the UK, and Bahamas:
- island
- archipelago
- strait
- isthmus
These smaller, rocky, isolated hills often have steep vertical sides and flat tops:
- arch
- cliff
- canyon
- butte
These natural landforms can be seen in Utah, France, Mexico, Chile, and China:
- arch
- butte
- delta
- isthmus
These large, steep landforms make up the Rockies, Andes, Himalayas, Andes, Alps, & Pyrenees:
- plateaus
- cliffs
- canyons
- mountains
These long, scenic, narrow inlets in Norway & Iceland have steep cliffs created by glaciers:
- icebergs
- deltas
- fjords
- peninsulas
This hollow space underground in France holds some of the oldest paleolithic paintings:
- French Alps
- Gorges du Verdon Canyon
- Chauvet Cave
- Loire River
The famous Côte d'Azur, along the Mediterranean in France, would be this type of landform:
- coastline
- island
- archipelago
- inlet
This enormous, deep, narrow valley eroded by the Colorado River is a famous spot in Arizona:
- Hoover Dam
- Grand Canyon
- Coyote Buttes
- Havasu Falls
If you went on a cruise, you likely visited a piece of land surrounded entirely by water:
- peninsula
- delta
- isthmus
- island
This body of water, partially surrounded by land, is a famous vacation spot in California:
- Lake Tahoe
- Tenaya Lake
- San Francisco Bay
- Cabrillo Tide Pools
Home to Stonehenge, this landform covers about 300 square miles in south-central England:
- Cheviot Hills
- Salisbury Plain
- white cliffs of Dover
- Cumbrian Mountains
If you traveled to the beach or the desert, you may have seen a hill made of sand known as:
- a dune
- a mountain
- a sandbar
- an isthmus
Florida, known for Disney World, beaches, and Kennedy Space Center is this type of landform:
- isthmus
- island
- mountain
- peninsula
Located in Hawaii, Mauno Loa is famous for being the largest of this type of landform:
- island
- archipelago
- volcano
- peninsula