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Mountains - Multiple Choice Quiz

Multiple choice questions about or relating to mountains.
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1. What is the longest mountain chain located entirely within a single country?
Rocky Mountains
Atlas Mountains
Ural Mountains
Great Dividing Range
The Great Dividing Range is located entirely within Australia. The other three are each located in more than one country (Rockies are in USA and Canada, Urals are in Russia and Kazakhstan and the Atlas Mountains are in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia), and out of them only the Rockies are longer than the Great Dividing Range.
2. Where is the highest mountain outside of Asia located?
North America
South America
Africa
Europe
The mountain is Aconcagua in Argentina, which has an elevation of 6,961 metres.
3. On which mountain is the Shaolin Monastery located?
Mount Longhu
Mount Wutai
Mount Tai
Mount Song
4. Which of these countries has the highest mountain?
Poland
Sweden
Spain
Romania
The highest point in Spain is Teide in the Canary Islands, with a height of 3,718 metres, while Mulhacén is the highest mountain in peninsular Spain at 3,478 metres. Moldoveanu Peak in Romania has an elevation of 2,544 metres, Rysy in Poland has an elevation of 2,501 metres and Kebnekaise in Sweden has an elevation of 2,111 metres.
5. Which of these countries has the highest average elevation?
Namibia
Ethiopia
Morocco
Uganda
Ethiopia: 1,330 m, Namibia: 1,141 m, Uganda: 1,100 m, Morocco: 909 m.
6. Which of these North American ranges contains the highest mountain?
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Cascade Range
Sierra Nevada
Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada has an elevation of 4,421 metres, making it the highest mountain in the contiguous United States. Mount Elbert in the Rockies has an elevation of 4,401 metres, Mount Rainier in the Cascades has an elevation of 4,392 metres and Mount Mitchell in the Appalachians has an elevation of 2,037 metres.
7. Which mountain range can be found in Mongolia?
Tian Shan
Kunlun Mountains
Pamir Mountains
Altai Mountains
8. Which of these countries contains the highest mountain?
Fiji
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
Mount Popomanaseu in the Solomon Islands has an elevation of 2,335 metres. None of the other countries have a mountain with an elevation of over 2,000 metres.
9. What is a cordillera?
A mountain lake
A chain of mountain ranges
A type of farm found in the Pyrenees
A type of spur
An example of a cordillera is the American Cordillera, the chain of mountain ranges that form the western backbone of the Americas.
10. The Andes are the only mountain range within Colombia.
False
True
One of the other ranges in Colombia is the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest coastal range in the tropics.
11. Which of these is the highest mountain in the Alps after Mont Blanc?
Jungfrau
Matterhorn
Monte Rosa
Dom
It is located on the border of Italy and Switzerland, and has an elevation of 4,634 metres.
12. What is the name of the African topological feature that the Drakensberg is a part of?
Great Ridge
Great Mountains
Great Escarpment
Great Range
13. Which of these mountains is located in Iran?
Mount Kazbek
Mount Korek
Mount Damavand
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat is in Turkey, Mount Kazbek is on the Russian-Georgian border and Mount Korek is in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
14. Excluding wind speeds related to tornadoes, the second-highest surface wind speed ever officially recorded occurred on which mountain?
Mount Washington
Mount Saint Elias
Denali
Mauna Loa
The wind speed was 231 mph. The highest surface wind speed was 253 mph, recorded on Barrow Island in Australia during the passage of Cyclone Olivia.
15. When measured from base to peak, how many Martian mountains are taller than Mauna Kea?
2
3
4
1
Out of those four, Olympus Mons is the tallest at 14 miles, followed by Ascraeus Mons at 9.3 miles, Elysium Mons at 7.8 miles and Arsia Mons at 7.3 miles. Mauna Kea is around 6.3 miles tall.
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