Mountains of the World
This is the highest mountain in the world.
What is Mount Everest?
Two mountain ranges found in North America.
What are Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains?
A volcano that is not likely to erupt is called this.
What is an extinct volcano?
A passage through or under a natural feature such as a mountain.
What are tunnels?
Mountains make it difficult for people to communicate with one another, armies can not invade countries that have mountains surrounding this easily, and the winds can not carry moisture across mountains easily
What are ways mountains create challenges for people?
This is a naturally occurring substance found in the earth's crust.
What is mineral?
This is the highest mountain in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This mountain range is located in South America.
What is Andes Mountains?
Many smaller animals will do this in order to survive during the winter months, going to sleep and feeding off of their body fat.
What is hibernate?
This is how we describe what the temperature is doing as you go up a mountain.
What is decrease?
People living in the Andes Mountains have adapted to the effects of this.
What is high elevations?
This is melted rock from inside the Earth's crust.
What is magma?
This is the highest mountain in North America.
What is Mount Denali (Mt. McKinley)?
This mountain range is where we can find Mont Blanc.
What are the Alps?
To build level surfaces on a mountainside is called this.
What is terrace?
An example of an adaptation that would allow animals to live on mountains would be this.
What is "having hoofs with sharp edges?"
The main center of Spanish power that Jose de San Martin and his army crossed the Andes and took a ship to go to was here.
What is Peru?
To stay alive means this.
What is survive?
This is the name of the highest mountain in the South America.
What is Mount Aconcagua?
This mountain range separates Spain with France.
What are the Pyrenees Mountains?
A place in the mountain range that is lower than the surrounding peaks and people would use these to get through to the other side.
What is a mountain pass?
Because of very low temps, snowstorms, and strong winds - no one was able to do this until 1953.
What is climb Mount Everest?
Because mountains contain minerals, provide recreational opportunities, and are a source of rivers that provide hydroelectric power...
What are reasons that mountains are important to people?
This is a machine that makes electricity.
What is a generator?
The highest mountain of Europe is called this, found in Russia.
What is Mount Elbrus?
On Hannibal's march from Spain to Italy, he crossed these two mountain ranges.
What are the Pyrenees and the Alps?
This is a wall used to stop the flow of water.
What is a dam?
Shifting plates, volcanic action, and magma moving deep in the earth.
What are ways that mountains are formed?
People living on the western side of the Rocky Mountains will get more or less rain then their neighbors on the eastern side of the mountains.
What is get more rain?
This is a colorless or lightly colored hard mineral.
What is a crystal?