Famous Mountains
This mountain is the tallest in the world above sea level.
What is Mount Everest.
A mountain that can erupt lava is called this.
What is a volcano.
These horned animals are famous for climbing steep mountain cliffs.
Ancient Greeks believed their gods lived on this mountain.
What is Mount Olympus.
This mountain range runs along the western edge of North America.
What are the Rocky Mountains.
This mountain in Japan is famous for its nearly perfect cone shape.
What is Mount Fuji.
Mountains are usually formed when these giant pieces of Earth’s crust move.
What are tectonic plates.
What animal did the Inca use for transportation instead of wheels or horses?
What is the llama.
This mountain pass used by Hannibal to invade Rome is found in the Alps.
What are the Alps.
This term describes the height of a place above sea level. Mount Everest's ___________ of this is 29,032′ high.
What is elevation
Which South American mountain range also has a volcanic belt?
What are the Andes Mountains.
This process slowly wears down mountains through wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion.
This large cat lives in the Himalayas and has thick spotted fur.
What is the snow leopard.
Which mountain community used a quipo to keep records?
What is the Inca.
How tall is the Himalayan Yeti thought to be?
What is 6-15 feet.
This mountain in Tanzania is Africa's highest peak.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro.
Which green mountain mineral represents the “tears of the moon goddess”?
What is the emerald.
Which Appalachian animal gave us the slang word “buck” for a dollar?
What is the White-tailed deer.
In more modern times, which music genre came from the people of the Appalachian mountains?
What is Bluegrass.
At high elevations, climbers can suffer from this dangerous sickness caused by thin air.
This mountain range separates Europe from Asia in Russia.
What are the Ural Mountains.
These mountains form when tectonic plates crash together and fold the land upward.
What are fold mountains.
Yaks are commonly found in this mountain region of Asia.
What is the Himalayas.
Which mountain society lived as farmers, nomads, and traders?
What are the Sherpa
This is the name for the flat area at the top of some mountains. It has a french etymology.
What is a plateau.