North America Physical Features Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which mountain system extends through western Canada and the western United States?
The Laurentian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains
The Rocky Mountains
The Ozark Mountains
2. Which set consists entirely of Great Lakes?
Superior, Winnipeg, and Erie
Ontario, Great Bear, and Huron
Superior, Michigan, and Huron
Michigan, Champlain, and Superior
3. Which region of ancient exposed rock curves around much of Hudson Bay?
The Columbia Plateau
The Appalachian Plateau
The Colorado Plateau
The Canadian Shield
4. Which major river system drains much of the central United States into the Gulf of Mexico?
The Columbia River system
The Colorado River system
The Hudson River system
The Mississippi River system
5. A field team enters an enclosed desert basin in California noted for elevations below sea level. Which feature best fits the description?
The Great Salt Lake Desert
Death Valley
California's Central Valley
The Rio Grande Valley
6. A raindrop lands on the western side of the Continental Divide in the United States Rockies. Toward which ocean is it most likely to travel?
The Atlantic Ocean
The Pacific Ocean
The Arctic Ocean
The Indian Ocean
7. Which large inland body of salt water cuts deeply into northeastern Canada?
Hudson Bay
Great Bear Lake
Lake Winnipeg
Lake Athabasca
8. A traveler crosses the narrow land bridge connecting North and South America, with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other. Which feature are they crossing?
The Yucatán Peninsula
The Strait of Florida
The Isthmus of Panama
The Gulf of Tehuantepec
9. A traveler drives along the long peninsula west of mainland Mexico, with the Gulf of California on the east. Which peninsula is this?
The Yucatán Peninsula
The Baja California Peninsula
The Florida Peninsula
The Labrador Peninsula
10. Which physical feature covers most of Greenland's interior?
A continental ice sheet
A broad sandy desert
A chain of freshwater lakes
A temperate grassland
11. Water traveling from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario passes over Niagara Falls. Which river carries it?
The St. Lawrence River
The Niagara River
The Hudson River
The Ottawa River
12. A cargo ship leaves the Great Lakes and follows their natural outlet toward the Atlantic Ocean. Which waterway does it enter?
The Mackenzie River
The Hudson River
The Saskatchewan River
The St. Lawrence River
13. What is the broad grassland region immediately east of the Rocky Mountains called?
The Atlantic Coastal Plain
The Basin and Range
The Great Plains
The Piedmont
14. Moist Pacific air rises over California's Sierra Nevada and then descends on the eastern side. What condition is most likely east of the mountains?
A dry rain-shadow region
A humid coastal rainforest
A broad river delta
A tropical wetland
15. Rainwater readily filters through the Yucatán Peninsula's porous limestone. Which feature commonly results from this process?
Fjords cut by glaciers
Dune fields shaped by wind
Moraines deposited by ice
Sinkholes known as cenotes
16. Many volcanoes in Central America occur near the Pacific margin. Which process best explains this pattern?
An oceanic tectonic plate subducting beneath the region
Glaciers eroding deep valleys
River sediment building natural levees
Groundwater dissolving limestone