Exploring Mountains: A Quiz on Geography and Geology Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

several mountains, a chain of craters, a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières.

a summit, a spur, a wooden building and an avenue are named after Michel Croz, a mountain guide who died on the first ascent of the Matterhorn (pictured).

the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops, unlike most other seabirds, which nest in seashore colonies.

the Large Mindoro Forest Mouse, first described as a distinct species in 1995, is known from only 16 individuals from a single mountain on the Island of Mindoro, Philippines.

the new 100-meter (330 ft) observation tower with a 66-meter (217 ft) slide planned to be built on the Pyramidenkogel, a mountain in Austria, will be the tallest wooden tower in the world.

Wilson Peak in Colorado has been used in dozens of national and local advertising campaigns because of its charismatic and characteristically rugged mountain appearance.

Vittorio Sella’s images of mountains (example, Siniolchu, pictured) were described by fellow photographer Ansel Adams as inspiring "a definitely religious awe".

Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history.

Cloudland Canyon State Park in the U.S. state of Georgia straddles a gorge cut into the mountain by Sitton Gulch Creek, where the elevation differs from 1,980 to 800 feet (604 to 244 m).

Humbug Mountain (pictured) is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean.

New Mexico State Road 4 forms the core of Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway, with trails to Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain, and a 70-foot waterfall from roadside turnouts.

Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall.

orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall, is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain.

Exploring Mountains: A Quiz on Geography and Geology

1 Thus, air temperature decreases with an increase in altitude at a general rate, called the ________, of 5.5°C per 1,000 m (3°F per 3,000 ft).

2 Some isolated mountains were produced by volcanoes, including many apparently small ________ that reach a great height above the ocean floor.

3 Nilkantha (mountain), 6,597 metres (21,644 ft), ________, India.

4 Mountains are generally less preferable for human habitation than lowlands; the weather is often harsher, and there is little level ground suitable for ________.

5 Tangkuban Parahu mountain in ________, West Java, Indonesia.

6 ________, the highest mountain in England & Wales (UK)

7 Many mountains and mountain ranges throughout the world have been left in their natural state, and are today primarily used for recreation, while others are used for logging, mining, ________, or see little use.

8 Finsteraarhorn, 4,274 metres (14,022 ft), ________, Switzerland.

9 A mountain is usually produced by the movement of ________ plates, either orogenic movement or epeirogenic movement.

10 They are consequently subject to glaciation, and ________ through frost action.

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