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Discover These Facts About Plateaus!

3rd - 10th grades
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1 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

The largest and highest plateau in the world is the ________ Plateau.


Colorado 

Tibetan

Polar

2 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

The Tibetan Plateau is continuously formed through the collision of two tectonic plates, the ___________ and the Eurasian plate.


European 

North Asian 

Indo-Australian

3 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

_________ plateau is referred to as the Polar Plateau.


Antarctic

Tibetian 

Volcano

4 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

A large plateau in North America is the ____________ which covers about 337,000 square kilometres in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico.


Mexican Plateau 

Hill Plateau 

Colorado Plateau

5 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

Plateaus are either formed through movements of tectonic plates or by the build-up of lava from a volcano.


True

False

6 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

How are volcanic plateaus formed?


Volcanic eruption

Lava formation 

Cooling of Volcano

7 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

It is one of the four major landforms alongside plains, mountains, and ________.


River 

Hills

Ocean

8 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

When a volcano erupts, hot molten rock called ________ escapes from inside the Earth.


Magma

Lava 

Mountain

9 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

A plateau with a lot of erosion is called a __________ plateau.


Deccan 

Disconnected

Lava

10 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

The Columbia Plateau in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the _________ of west-central India were formed by these runny lava flows.


Deccan Plateau

Mine Plateau 

Erotic Plateau

11 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

The ___________ in the Indian Ocean is one of the few underwater features clearly visible from space.


Polar Plateau 

Mascarene Plateau

Peninsula Plateau

12 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

What is a plateau famous for?


Vitamins  

Tablets  

Minerals

13 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

In geology and physical geography, a plateau, also called a __________.


Tableland

High-land 

Tabloid

14 Question
30 secunde în urmă
Q.

A plateau is an elevated flat land that is different from the surrounding volcanoes.


True 

False

15 Question
30 secunde în urmă
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The __________ plateaus formed by the uplifting in the Earth’s crust.


Disconnected 

Volcanic  

Dissecting