Landforms

Photo ID

100

What's this thingy majiggy called?

A mountain

200

What's this guy standing in?

A valley

300

What are these three toasty desert dudes called? Pay attention to their shape!

Plateaus

400

Australia has a really snazzy lake with some 40,000 year old human skeletons. Also this thingy. What's it called?

A basin

500

Don't be fooled. Just because it's underwater doesn't mean it isn't dangerous, or a landform! It's still an opening that releases hot gas and rock. What is it?

A volcano

Build a Civilization

100

You are starting a new settlement. You want flat land at a high elevation. Which landform would you choose?

A. A plateau

B. A mountain

C. A valley

D. A volcano

A. Plateau

200

Your civilization wants a natural place that could help protect the settlement from enemy villaged. Which landform might make it easiest to see enemies approach and defend?

A. Next to a volcano
B. In a low valley between mountains
C. In a basin next to a lake
D. On top of a high mountain

D. On top of a high mountain

300

You need to build a road through a region with very tall mountains. You want to make building and travelling on the road as fast, easy, and safe as possible. Where should you build?

A. Snake the road around the mountains

B. Mine a road through the mountains

C. In the valley between the mountains

D. Over the mountains

C. In the valley between the mountains

400

A civilization is built near a volcano. Over many years, the people notice that crops grow very well, but they also worry about eruptions. What does this example show?

A. Farming is impossible near volcanoes.
B. Volcanoes are always the best places to build cities.
C. Landforms can create both opportunities and challenges for people.
D. People cannot live near any landform.

C. Landforms can create both opportunities and challenges for people.

500

Your civilization is located in a basin surrounded by mountains. Which situation is most likely to affect your civilization? 

A. The basin would prevent invasion from enemies.
B. The basin would make all farming impossible.
C. The mountains would prevent all water from entering the basin.
D. The civilization might be in danger of flooding during a rainstorm.

D. The civilization might be in danger of flooding during a rainstorm.

Riddles in the Middle

100

I am a landform with very high, steep sides and a peak.
I am usually higher than a hill.
People may have to climb me to reach my highest point. What am I?

Mountain

200

I am tall... but not too tall. My sides can be steep or gentle. I am great to stand on if you want to see what lies around you... without too much effort. What am I?

Hill

300

I am a low area surrounded by higher land.
Water can collect in me.
I can be large enough to contain towns, farms, or even entire cities.

Basin or Valley

400

I can be both helpful and dangerous to people.
I can provide rich soil for farming, but only after I cause destruction.
I am created by processes happening deep inside Earth.
Who am I?

Volcano

500

I am high, but I am not pointed.
My top is wide and relatively flat.
Erosion (wearing away) can help create me.
Who am I?

Plateau

3 Words

100

Steep

Peak

Climb

Mountain

200

Explode

Hot

Lava

Volcano

300

Low

River

V-shaped

Valley

400

Flat

High

Steep

Plateau

500

Low

Bowl

Lake

Basin

Ms. Rancourt's Nerdy Zelda Questions

100

This weird kid is the creepiest boss in the entire Zelda series. And yet here he sits, inside of the moon, under that totally real tree, on top of a definitely real landform called a...

hill.

200

This Zelda landform appears in ALMOST every game. It is notoriously dangerous to go near, and usually contains the fire dungeon. What type of landform is it?

A volcano

300

This landform is from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It has a (mostly) flat top and sides so steep that you'll die if you jump off of it without the paraglider. It is the Great...

Plateau.

400

Twilight Princess's Kakariko Village sits in a deep V-shaped rift between mountains with a narrow center and steep walls. What landform does it sit in?

A valley.

500

Ocarina of Time's Lake Hylia isn't just a lake- it's at the bottom of a bowl-like shape with high sides. Lake Hylia sits inside of a...

basin.