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Class 6 Geography — Mountains, plateaus and plains

Tell a mountain, a plateau and a plain apart by the shape and height of the land, and say why people live and farm where they do.

Name: ________________________

  1. 1.A river reaches the edge of a plateau and drops over it as a waterfall. Why does the waterfall form just there?

    • a) Because the land falls away steeply at the edge, and the water goes with it
    • b) Because rivers can only flow on flat ground
    • c) Because the water is heavier at the edge than in the middle
    • d) Because a plateau is made of water underneath

  2. 2.Tap the plateau in this drawing of the land.

    Write the number of the part.

    1234

  3. 3.Sort each kind of land by whether it is high land or low land.

    Groups: High land · Low land

    • A plain
    • A peak
    • A mountain
    • A valley floor
    • Flat farmland beside a river
    • A plateau

  4. 4.Why do far more people live on plains than high in the mountains?

    • a) There is no water anywhere in the mountains
    • b) Flat, level land with deep soil makes farming, roads and building easy
    • c) Plains are the only land where the sun reaches the ground
    • d) Nobody is allowed to build a house on a slope

  5. 5.Which of these is the best description of a plain?

    • a) Raised land with a flat top and steep sides
    • b) The low land lying between two mountains
    • c) Land that rises much higher than everything around it
    • d) A wide stretch of flat, low, level land

  6. 6.Put these three kinds of land in order, starting with the lowest and ending with the highest.

    • A plain
    • A plateau
    • A mountain

  7. 7.Sort each description under the kind of land it fits.

    Groups: A mountain · A plateau · A plain

    • Rises much higher than the land around it, with steep sides and a narrow top
    • Raised land with a flat top and steep sides
    • A wide stretch of flat, low, level land
    • Often called table land
    • So cold at the top that snow may lie there all year
    • Deep soil, easy to plough, and easy to build a road across

  8. 8.Raised land with a flat top and steep sides, standing above the country around it, is called a ______.

Answer key — Class 6 Geography — Mountains, plateaus and plains

  1. 1. a) Because the land falls away steeply at the edge, and the water goes with it
  2. 2. 3 — A plateau
  3. 3. A mountain → High land; A plain → Low land; A plateau → High land; A valley floor → Low land; A peak → High land; Flat farmland beside a river → Low land
  4. 4. b) Flat, level land with deep soil makes farming, roads and building easy
  5. 5. d) A wide stretch of flat, low, level land
  6. 6. 1. A plain 2. A plateau 3. A mountain
  7. 7. Rises much higher than the land around it, with steep sides and a narrow top → A mountain; Raised land with a flat top and steep sides → A plateau; A wide stretch of flat, low, level land → A plain; So cold at the top that snow may lie there all year → A mountain; Often called table land → A plateau; Deep soil, easy to plough, and easy to build a road across → A plain
  8. 8.
    • plateau
    • a plateau
    • table land
    • tableland