Geography Class 8th
21. The course of river from the point of origin in the mountains up to the plain area is called:
A) Upper Course
B) Middle Course
C) Delta
D) None of the above
22. Deep steep sided valley:
A) Canyon
B) V shaped Valley
C) Water Fall
D) Delta
23. Dasu Patan Canyon Is present in:
A) Ganges
B) Indus
C) Yangtez
D) Thames
24. The Valley formed by vertical and lateral erosion:
A) Canyon
B) V shaped Valley
C) Waterfall
D) Canal
25. Water dropping from a great height is called:
A) Canyon
B) V shaped valley
C) Water Fall
D) Delta
26. Nigeria Falls is a world famous:
A) Canyon
B) V shaped valley
C) Water Fall
D) Delta
27. River Exiting a Mountain and entering a plain at low speed:
A) Upper Course
B) Middle Course
C) Delta
D) None of the above
28. Rivers in middle course carry a great load of sediments:
A) True
B) False
30. Oxbow lakes are ______ shaped lakes.
A) Circle
B) Crescent
C) Irregular
D) Square
31. Fan shapes formed at the mouth, that store the sediments are called:
A) Storage Pits
B) Dugouts
C) Delta
D) None of the above
32. Huge deposit of ice that is moving or has seen movement down the slope is called:
A) Iceberg
B) Glacier
C) Ice sheet
D) Ice caps
33. There are ______ types of Glaciers
A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) None
34. A Glacier that covers a great part of a continent is called:
A) Alpine Glaciers
B) Iceberg
C) Continental Glacier
D) None of the above
35. Continental Glaciers are also called as:
A) Ice sheet
B) Ice berg
C) Ice cap
D) Boulder
36. The Glaciers of Greenland is example of:
A) Continental Glacier
B) Alpine Glacier
3) Pedimount Glaciers
4) Snow Mountains
37. World largest ice sheet is of:
A) Norway
B) Arctic Region
C) Antarctica
D) Iceland
38. When a glacier passes through a bedrock, it erodes and smoothens it. This is called:
A) Drumlin
B) Kettles
C) Roche Moutonnee
D) None of the above
39. When a the ice block beneath the glacier melt, a depression is made, it is called as:
A) Furrow
B) Hole
C) Kettle
D) Dugout
40. The Glaciers found in valleys, are called as:
A) Continental Glacier
B) Alpine Glacier
C) Pedimount Glaciers
D) None of the above