Mountains

Question 1

Adirondack Mountains

Answer 1

A massif in northeastern New York, which forms a roughly circular dome, about 160 miles in diameter and about 1 mile high - Highest peak is Mount Marcy (5343 ft) - Massive deforestation led to creation of 6.1 million acre Adirondack Park in 1902

Question 2

Altai Mountains

Answer 2

Mountain range in Central and E Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, y Kazakhstan come together - Highest peak is Belukha Mountain in Russia (4440m) - Headwaters of the Ob and Irtysh rivers - Name comes from Mongolian for “Gold Mountains”

Question 3

Aoraki / Mount Cook

Answer 3

Highest mountain in New Zealand (3724 m) - In the Southern Alps on South Island - Height reduced by 10m in 1991 after a rock fall

Question 4

Black Hills

Answer 4

Small, isolated mountain range in western South Dakota - 5000 sq mi in area - Black Elk Peak at 7200 ft is highest peak - Home to Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, y the unfinished Crazy Horse Memorial - Unrelated Badlands National Park lies about 80 miles to the east

Question 5

Blue Ridge Mountains

Answer 5

Mountain range stretching from Georgia to Pennsylvania - Eastern portion of Appalachians - Contains Shenandoah NP y Great Smoky Mtns NP - Named for having a blue color when seen from a distance - Highest peak is Mt Mitchell in NC (6684 ft)

Question 6

Chugach Mountains

Answer 6

The northernmost of the several mountain ranges that make up the Pacific Coast Ranges of the western edge of North America - Located in southern Alaska, just east of Anchorage - 250 mi long, 60 mi wide - Highest peak is Mount Marcus Baker (13,094 ft)

Question 7

Great Dividing Range

Answer 7

Australia’s largest mtn range - Stretches 3500 km from NE Queensland south to W Victoria - About 200 km wide - Highest peak is Mt Kosciuszko (2228 m)

Question 8

Great Smoky Mountains

Answer 8

Mountain range on E Tennessee y W North Carolina border - Part of Blue Ridge Mtns, sub-range of Appalachians - Home to GSM Nat Park, est 1934, most visited in US - Contains largest stand of old-growth forest east of the Mississippi

Question 9

Hindu Kush

Answer 9

An 800-km-long mountain range running thru NE Afghanistan y N Pakistan - Divides the valley of the Amu Darya (the ancient Oxus) to the north from the Indus River valley to the south - Highest peak is Tirich Mir in Pakistan (7708m - highest outside the Himalayas-Karakoram range) - Known in Ancient Greek as the Caucasus Indicus or the Paropamisadae

Question 10

Kangchenjunga

Answer 10

3rd highest peak in the world (8586 m [Everest is 8848 m]) - In Himalayas on eastern border of Nepal and India - 2nd highest of Himalayas, y highest of India - Name comes from Tibetan for “the five treasures of the high snow” - First summitted in 1955, following a route devised by Aleister Crowley in 1905

Question 11

Mont Blanc

Answer 11

AKA Monte Bianco (“White Mountain”) in Italian - Highest mountain in the Alps (4809m), y 2nd highest in Europe - Lies on the French-Italian border, in a range called the Graian Alps - French town of Chamonix (1st Winter Olympics-1924) is at the foot - Called Rupes Alba in Latin

Question 12

Mount Elbert

Answer 12

Highest mountain in Rocky Mountains y Colorado (4401 m) - 2nd highest in contiguous USA after Mt Whitney - Located in Central CO near Leadville

Question 13

Mount Elbrus

Answer 13

Tallest mountain in Europe (5642 m) - Dormant volcano located in W Caucasus Mtns, Russia - First summited in 1874

Question 14

Mount Erebus

Answer 14

2nd highest volcano in Antarctica (3794 m) after remote y obscure Mt Sidley - Southernmost active volcano on earth - On Ross Island

Question 15

Mount Etna

Answer 15

Tallest active volcano in Europe - Active stratovolcano on the E coast of Sicily, between Messina and Catania - One of the most active volcanoes in the world - In Greek myth the forges of Hephaestus located beneath it

Question 16

Mount Logan

Answer 16

Highest in Canada (5959 m) - 2nd highest in North America - Located in SW Yukon near Alaska border - First summited in 1925

Question 17

Mount Mitchell

Answer 17

Highest peak of Appalachian Mts, and of Eastern North America (2042 m) - Located in western North Carolina

Question 18

Mount Vinson

Answer 18

Highest peak in Antarctica (4892 m) - Part of Vinson Massif group of peaks - In Ellsworth Mountains near base of Antarctic Peninsula - First summited in 1966

Question 19

Mount Whitney

Answer 19

Highest peak in contiguous USA (4421 m) - In Sierra Nevada range near Sequoia Nat. Park y Death Valley

Question 20

Parícutin

Answer 20

Cinder-cone volcano in Mexican state of Michoacán, 300 km west of Mexico City - Emerged suddenly from a cornfield in 1943, y erupted constantly for 9 years - Now is a dormant 424m high cone

Question 21

Pico de Orizaba

Answer 21

Aka Citlaltépetl - Highest peak in Mexico at 5600m; 3rd highest in North America, after Denali (6200m) y Mt. Logan (6000m) - Located in SE Mexico on the border between the states of Veracruz y Puebla - A dormant stratovolcano that last eruped in 1846 - 2nd most prominent volcanic peak in the world after Kilimanjaro

Question 22

Puncak Jaya

Answer 22

Aka Carstensz Pyramid or Nemangkawi - Located in Papua Province of Indonesia - Highest peak of Oceania (4884 m) y of Indonesia - Highest point between the Himalayas y the Andes

Question 23

Shiprock (Tsé Bitʼaʼí)

Answer 23

A large monadnock in the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation, in NW New Mexico - The erosional remnant of the throat of a volcano - Highest point is 7,177 ft - Mentioned in many Navajo myths y legends - Navajo name Tsé Bitʼaʼí means “winged rock”

Question 24

Stone Mountain

Answer 24

Large monadnock in Stone Mountain, GA (20 mi E of Atlanta) with rock-relief carving of Confederate heroes Jackson, Lee, y Davis - Largest bas-relief in the world - Site of the founding of the KKK in 1915