Important MCQ-Based Questions for class 11 Geography chapter-Landforms and their Evolutions
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Geography - MCQ on Landforms and their Evolutions
Class XI
Q.1.Which of the following is not a geomorphic agent?
a)Running water
b)Glaciers
c)Waves
d)Valleys
Answer:
(d) Valleys
Explanation: - Valleys are the result of action of geomorphic agents.
Q.2.Erosion causes:
a)Changes
b)No change
c)Destruction
d)None
Answer:
(a) Changes.
Explanation: - Erosion transformed surfaces from high to low, irregular to regular and vice- versa.
Q.3.A landform is a:
a)Piece of land
b)A physical feature
c)Any place on the surface of the earth
d)All the above
Answer:
(b) A physical feature.
Explanation: - A landform may be a mountain, a valley, a plateau etc.
Q.4. A landform is a result of the:
a) Tectonic activities.
b) Certain geomorphic process.
c) Depositional work.
d) All the above.
Answer:
(d) All the above
Explanation: - folding and earth movements or by the deposition and erosion of material by different agents.
Q.5. Every landform passes through the stages of:
a)Youth
b) Mature
c) Old
d All the above
Answer:
(d) All the above
Explanation: - Like the stages of life a landmass passes through three stages.
Q.6. Which of the following is not a controlling factor for the evolution of landforms.
a) Stability of sea level.
b) Tectonic stability of landmasses.
c) Cpmate.
d) Vegetation.
Answer:
(d) Vegetation.
Explanation: - Vegetation does not play any role in the evolution of landforms.
Q.7.In the humid regions which of the following geomorphic agents play an important role in the evolution of landforms.
a) Glaciers
b) Winds
c) Running water
d) Waves
Answer:
(c) Running water
Explanation: - Because these areas receive heavy rainfall.
Q.8.In the early stages of a river which of the following activity dominates.
a) Sheet erosion
b) Gully erosion
c) Pene plain
d) Washout plain
Answer:
(d) Washout plain
Explanation: - Washout plains are formed by the glacial actions.
Q.9. Which one of the following is not an erosional landform:
a) Valleys
b) Potholes and plunge pools
c) Meanders
d) Alluvial fans
Answer:
(d) Alluvial fans
Explanation: - Alluvial fans are the result of deposition made by rivers in the foothills of the mountains.
Q.10. Which one of the following is not a depositional landform.
a) Levees
b) Deltas
c) Braided Channels
d) River Terraces
Answer:
(d) River Terraces
Explanation: - River Terraces are surfaces marking old flood plain levels.
Q.11. Which one of the following landform is associated with the old age of the river:
a) Gorges
b) Canyons
c) Flood plain
d) Delta
Answer:
(d) Delta
Explanation: - Delta is a triangular shaped landform made up of fine silt; it is formed in the last stage of river cycle when river is going to fall in the ocean.
Q.12. The areas that are rich in calcium carbonate which of the following geo – morphic agent is more important.
a) Running water
b) Underground water
c) Glaciers
d) Winds
Answer:
(b) Underground water
Explanation: -With lime stones underground water makes solutions and erodes them by through this activity.
Q.13. Karst topography is associated with:
a) Running water
b) Underground water
c) Glaciers
d) Winds
Answer:
(b) Underground water
Q.14. Which one of the following is not an erosional landform of Karst region:
a) Pools
b) Sink holes
c) Caves
d) Stalactites
Answer:
(d) Stalactites
Explanation: - Stalactites are depositional features which are formed due to the deposition of salts.
Q.15. Masses of moving ice as sheets on land are called:
a) Ice burg
b) moving ice
c) River
d) Glaciers
Answer:
(d) Glaciers
Q.16. Cirque and Horns are associated with:
a) Riverine erosion
b) Underground water erosion
c) Wind erosion
d) Glacial erosion
Answer:
(d) Glacial erosion
Explanation: - These landforms originate by the erosional activity of glaciers.
Q.17. Cirques are:
a) Deep, long and broad troughs
b) V- shape valleys
c) Hills
d) Plain
Answer:
(a) Deep, long and broad troughs
Explanation: - They are found at the level of glacial valleys. The accumulated ice cuts these cirques.
Q.18. Moraines, ESKERS, outwash plain, Drumlin are associated with:
a) Rivers
b) Glaciers
c) Winds
d) underground water
Answer:
(b) Glaciers
Explanation: - These landforms are the depositional landforms of a glaciated landscape.
Q.19. Cliffs, Terraces, Caves and Stacks are the erosional landforms of:
a) Waves
b) Rivers
c) Winds
d) Glaciers
Answer:
(a) Waves
Q.20. Deflation and abrasion activities are associated with –
a) Waves
b) Rivers
c) Winds
d) Glaciers
Answer:
(c) Winds
Explanation: - Winds in the hot deserts of the world blow with a high speed and they erode the surface of the rocks it is called deflation.
Q.21. Playas are the lakes in the
a) Arid plains
b) Flood plains
c) Glacial plains
d) Alluvial plains
Answer:
(a) Arid plains
Explanation: - The lakes are formed in the centre of plains where water is retained for a short duration only.
Q.22. Barchans are:
a) Crescent shaped dunes
b) Wave shaped dunes
c) People of a tribal group
d) None
Answer:
(a) Crescent shaped dunes
Q.23. A deep valley characterised by Step-pke side slopes is known as :
a) ’U’ Shape valley
b) Bpnd valley
c) Gorge
d) Canyon
Answer:
(c) Gorge
Exp. Gorges are formed in the mountainous areas due to vertical cutting of the rocks.
Q.24.A deep and wide trough with very steep concave walls.
a) Cirque
b) Lateral Moraine
c) Glacial valley
d) Esker
Answer:
(a) Cirque
Q.25.In which of the following regions the chemical weathering process is more dominant than the mechanical processes.
a) Humid region
b) Arid region
c) limestone region
d) Glacier region
Answer:
(c) limestone region
Q.1. Important landforms associated with floodplains are:
a. Natural levees
b. Point bars
c. Delta plains
d. All of the above
Answer:
(d)
Explanation. River deposition develops a floodplain.
Q.1 River terraces are formed by the streams due to:
a. lateral erosion
b. vertical erosion
c. horizontal erosion
d. None of the above
Answer:
(b)
Explanation. River terraces are basically products of erosion as they result due to vertical erosion by the stream into its own depositional floodplains.
Q.2 The plains formed as a result of stream erosion is called:
a. Alluvial fan
b. valley
c. delta
d. peneplain
Answer:
(d)
Explanation. They are almost flattened.