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A quiz using geographical terms
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1
What is a dune?
A rocky river bed
A narrow bridge linking land
A hill under the ocean
A dune is a hill of sand
2
Large elevated hills are...
Valley
Butte
Canyon
Mountains
3
What is the difference between a city and a capital city?
A city can be a capital
Some cities can be capitals
A capital has a capitol building
All capitals are cities
4
An ocean always...
is polluted
is bigger than a sea
cuts into land
has the same animals
5
A thin piece of land that connects 2 pieces of land.
Continent
Ithsmus
Island
Strait
6
Which of the following flows off the mountain?
Strait
Ocean
Sea
River
7
What is the difference of a country and a continent?
All countries are larger than continents.
All continents have countries in them
Most continents have countries in them.
All countries are in the North
8
An inlet of water is...
Smaller bay
Ocean
Bay
Lake
9
What do you call a river that is split into other rivers still going the same way?
Strait
More rivers
Tributary
Delta
10
How does a river form?
Rainwater running off a mountain or mountain range
the ocean going into land
Rainwater running off a small hill
A small strip of sea going into land
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A lake is a...
section of ocean or sea extending into land
Big body of salt water
A body of water that is normally smaller than a gulf
A big inland body of standing water
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Body of fresh water surrounded by land.
River
Ocean
Sea
Lake
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A river that flows into another river or lake.
Delta
River
Strait
Tributary
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Where does a river start and end?
Starts on a mountain and ends in a lake
Starts at the top of a mountain and ends in the ocean
Starts from one big body of water to another body of water
Starts from a lake and goes to another lake
15
What has big building and lots of different companies?
City
Village
Seattle
Town
16
What is a thin flow of water connecting to a large body of water?
Strait
Ocean
RiverLake
Lake
17
Showing a relationship between the distance on a map and the distance of the real ground.
Key
Capitol
Airport
Scale
18
A mountain (mtn) is different from a hill because...
Hill is a big land mass
a mountain has a warmer climate at the top
A mtn is a land mass with a great height compared to a hill.
both are the same
19
Are you able to climb all mountain ranges?
No the mountains are too rocky.
Yes, they are not that hard to climb
Yes, if you do you will be able to make it to the top.
No, no one would want to climb up some mountains
20
What must every compass rose have?
The direction you are going
Wrong way you are going
West, north, south, east
Time
21
How is a isthmus different from a peninsula?
What it connects to
What color name it is
How it is affective
How tall it is
22
A narrow channel connecting 2 large bodies of water is a...
Valley
Peninsula
Strait
Isthmus
23
A bulge of land made of sand or dirt
Hill
Delta
Pile of shoes
Dune
24
Why are highways formed?
for a faster way to get places
formed for cars
to get to a city
transportation
25
Large elevated hills are...
Canyon
Butte
Valley
Mountain
26
What makes a sea a sea?
Having water flowing into it
Being salty
being mostly inside land
Having land bulging into it
