Asia Physical Features Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A traveler crosses the main Himalayan range from Nepal toward the north. Which major elevated region would the traveler enter?
The Deccan Plateau
The Iranian Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau
The Anatolian Plateau
2. If someone travels west from central Saudi Arabia until reaching the country's western coast, which body of water will they encounter?
The Red Sea
The Persian Gulf
The Arabian Sea
The Gulf of Oman
3. The rounded limestone hills and extensive caves around Guilin in southern China mainly developed through which process?
Wind abrasion of exposed granite
Repeated burial beneath basaltic lava flows
Deposition of sediment by a river delta
Chemical dissolution of limestone by water
4. Which inland water body occupies a deep, outlet-free depression between Jordan to the east and the Levantine coastlands to the west?
Lake Van
Lake Sevan
Lake Urmia
The Dead Sea
5. Which narrow waterway separates Asia's Chukchi Peninsula from Alaska in North America?
The Strait of Malacca
The Bosporus
The Bering Strait
The Taiwan Strait
6. A mountain chain forms the northern edge of the Tarim Basin and extends westward through parts of Kyrgyzstan. Which chain is it?
The Kunlun Mountains
The Tian Shan
The Altai Mountains
The Zagros Mountains
7. Researchers studying a deep freshwater lake in a continental rift zone in southern Siberia are most likely at which lake?
Lake Balkhash
Lake Van
Lake Baikal
Lake Toba
8. Water flowing down the Indus River eventually reaches which body of water?
The Bay of Bengal
The Arabian Sea
The Persian Gulf
The Caspian Sea
9. Which river deposited the broad delta found in southern Vietnam?
The Irrawaddy
The Ganges-Brahmaputra
The Yangtze
The Mekong
10. Japan consists largely of mountainous volcanic islands near active plate boundaries. Which process best explains this setting?
Sediment accumulation at a large river mouth
Continental rifting within a stable plate interior
Glacial erosion across a broad continental shield
Subduction of one tectonic plate beneath another
11. Which mountain range is commonly used as part of the conventional physical boundary between Europe and Asia?
The Altai Mountains
The Ural Mountains
The Zagros Mountains
The Western Ghats
12. A geographer identifies a landlocked water body with Kazakhstan on its northern side and Uzbekistan on its southern side. Which feature is it?
Lake Balkhash
The Aral Sea
The Caspian Sea
Issyk-Kul
13. A relief map shows a broad elevated interior covering much of peninsular India south of the Narmada River. Which landform is shown?
The Loess Plateau
The Central Siberian Plateau
The Deccan Plateau
The Plateau of Anatolia
14. A ship passing through the Strait of Malacca has which land areas on opposite sides of the route?
The Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
India and Sri Lanka
The Korean Peninsula and Honshu
Borneo and Sulawesi
15. Which desert extends across parts of southern Mongolia and northern China?
The Gobi Desert
The Karakum Desert
The Thar Desert
The Rub' al Khali
16. The Himalayas continue to rise because of which tectonic interaction?
The Indian Plate is converging with the Eurasian Plate
The Pacific Plate is pulling away from the Philippine Sea Plate
The Arabian Plate is sliding past the African Plate
The Eurasian Plate is separating from the North American Plate