Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Word Search
Flash Cards
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
A-I Landforms: Multiple Choice
Research from National Geographic, Wikipedia, and the U.S. National Park Service.
Rate:
Last updated: January 18, 2025
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | January 18, 2025 |
| Times taken | 40 |
| Average score | 86.7% | Report this quiz | Report |
4:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Copied!
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
1. A group of islands is called
an esker.
an archipelago.
a dell.
badlands.
2. Small rises next to a mountain range are called
escarpment.
crevasses.
karst.
foothills.
3. Wind may shape sand into
dunes.
diorite.
dales.
drumlins.
4. During a storm, you might shelter your boat in a bay or a
dry lake.
cove.
gulch.
mesa.
5. Where might you find brackish water (water that is a mix of fresh and salt water)?
In an estuary.
In the karoo.
In the badlands.
In a glacial horn.
6. What is an atoll?
A crater filled by a lava dome.
A landform surrounded by water on two sides.
A deep valley.
A ring of coral islands.
7. What is left after a large amount of magma is expelled from a volcano?
A caldera.
A bight.
A hoodoo.
A hogback.
8. Norway and New Zealand contain many fjords, or fiords, along their coastlines. What causes these narrow inlets that feature tall, steep cliffs?
Geysers.
Glaciers.
Crevasses.
Heavy winds.
9. Traveling through the American West, you may see wide stretches of desert punctuated by the occasional steep rocky hill with a flat top. This kind of landform is
a blowhole.
an arroyo.
a butte.
a ridge.
10. The place where two or more rivers meet is called a
confluence.
cove.
caldera.
corrie.
11. Old Faithful is a famous one of these, a natural eruption of hot water.
A geyser.
A gorge.
A rift.
An ejecta blanket.
12. A landform surrounded by water is called
an island.
an isthmus.
an inlet.
a hillock.
13. What is a floodplain?
A dry riverbed that can no longer support aquatic life.
An urban man-made beach alongside a natural river.
A high section of land adjacent to a river that protects occupants from high water.
Land near a river that might be flooded by water during storms or other periods of high water.
14. A tall skinny rock topped with another rock is called a
butte.
foiba.
hoodoo.
dune.
15. A dramatic, deep crack in an ice sheet or a glacier is called a
defile.
cravasse.
glen.
col.
Save Your Stats
Your Next Quiz
The most intellectual quiz to ever appear on JetPunk.
The easiest of our continental map quizzes.
Fill in the map of the world's major tectonic plates by correctly guessing each plate highlighted in blue.
How many bodies of water can you identify? Try to name these large and/or historically significant Oceans, Seas, Bays, Gulfs, Straits, Channels, Passages, Canals, Lakes, etc...
2 Comments
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Jan 18, 2025
Nice! Managed to get them all but definitely wasn't always sure and learned what some of the wrong answers are. (Btw I believe question 8 should say geysers not geyers)
Muncie
+1
Level 75
Jan 18, 2025
Thank you!
New and Popular
Landforms