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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?
Great Dividing Range ✓
Atlas Mountains ✓
Ural Mountains ✓
Rocky Mountains ✓
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 ✓
Europe ✓
South America ✓
Africa ✓
The mountain is Aconcagua in Argentina, which has an elevation of 6,961 metres.
3. On which mountain is the Shaolin Monastery located?
Mount Song ✓
Mount Tai ✓
Mount Longhu ✓
Mount Wutai ✓
4. Which of these countries has the highest mountain?
Sweden ✓
Romania ✓
Poland ✓
Spain ✓
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?
Uganda ✓
Ethiopia ✓
Namibia ✓
Morocco ✓
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?
Sierra Nevada ✓
Cascade Range ✓
Appalachian Mountains ✓
Rocky Mountains ✓
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?
Kunlun Mountains ✓
Altai Mountains ✓
Tian Shan ✓
Pamir Mountains ✓
8. Which of these countries contains the highest mountain?
Solomon Islands ✓
Samoa ✓
Vanuatu ✓
Fiji ✓
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 chain of mountain ranges ✓
A type of spur ✓
A mountain lake ✓
A type of farm found in the Pyrenees ✓
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?
Matterhorn ✓
Jungfrau ✓
Dom ✓
Monte Rosa ✓
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 Mountains ✓
Great Range ✓
Great Ridge ✓
Great Escarpment ✓
13. Which of these mountains is located in Iran?
Mount Damavand ✓
Mount Korek ✓
Mount Kazbek ✓
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?
Mauna Loa ✓
Denali ✓
Mount Saint Elias ✓
Mount Washington ✓
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 ✓
1 ✓
4 ✓
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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