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Identify Landforms Quiz!

This document is a quiz identifying various landforms from images and providing definitions. It shows images of 23 landforms like mountains, volcanoes, lakes, and rivers and asks the participant to name each one. It also provides definitions for 8 landforms, including alluvial fans, divides, mesas, moraines, sandbars, river mouths, and flood plains.

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Identify Landforms Quiz!

This document is a quiz identifying various landforms from images and providing definitions. It shows images of 23 landforms like mountains, volcanoes, lakes, and rivers and asks the participant to name each one. It also provides definitions for 8 landforms, including alluvial fans, divides, mesas, moraines, sandbars, river mouths, and flood plains.

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IdentifyLandformsQuiz!

Nameeachlandformbylookingcloselyattheimageabove.
1

Mountain

Volcano

Lake

Land

Waterfall

Butte

plateau

Cliff

River

10

River

11

Land

12

Harbour

13

Sand

14

Strait

15

Cliff

16

sea

17

isthmus

18

peninsula

19

island

20

delta

21

sound

22

ocean

23

Writeadefinitionforeachofthefollowinglandforms:

Alluvialfan

afanshapedalluvialdepositformedbyastreamwhereitsvelocityisabruptlydecreased,as
atthemouthofaravineoratthefootofamountain.

Divide

thelineor
zone
ofhighergroundbetweentwoadjacentstreamsordrainagebasins.

Mesa

alandformation,lessextensivethanaplateau,havingsteepwallsandarelativelyflat
top

Moraine

aridge,mound,orirregularmassofunstratifiedglacialdrift,chieflyboulders,gravel,sand,
andclay.

Sandbar

Alongmassorlowridgeofsubmergedorpartiallyexposedsandbuiltupinthewateralonga
shoreorbeachbytheactionofwavesorcurrents.

Rivermouth

A
river

mouth
isthepartofa
river
thatflowsintoalake,reservoirorocean

FloodPlain

anearlyflatplainalongthecourseofastreamorriverthatisnaturallysubjecttoflooding.

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