# Mountains of the world

> Grade 6: how mountains form, highest mountains on each continent, mountain ranges (Himalayas, Andes, Alps), climate and life on mountains.

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- Subject: History & geography
- Level: Grade 6
- Quiz: 16
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## Questions

1. Which movement of Earth's crust forms many fold mountains? (Heavy rain filling a lake / Rivers carrying soil away / Two plates pushing together / Wind blowing sand into piles)
   Answer: Two plates pushing together
2. Fold mountains form when rivers dig deep valleys into flat land.
   Answer: False
3. What is a volcanic mountain built from? (Folded layers of sand only / Ice from glaciers / Lava and ash from eruptions / Soil washed down by rain)
   Answer: Lava and ash from eruptions
4. What name do we give to the huge slow-moving pieces of Earth's crust?
   Answer: Tectonic plates
5. Which mountain is the highest in the world above sea level? (Aconcagua / Mont Blanc / Mount Everest / Mount Kilimanjaro)
   Answer: Mount Everest
6. Which is the highest mountain in Africa? (Denali / Mont Blanc / Mount Kenya / Mount Kilimanjaro)
   Answer: Mount Kilimanjaro
7. Aconcagua is the highest mountain on which continent? (Africa / Australia / North America / South America)
   Answer: South America
8. Denali is the highest mountain in North America.
   Answer: True
9. Which mountain range includes Mount Everest? (The Alps / The Andes / The Himalayas / The Rocky Mountains)
   Answer: The Himalayas
10. Which is the longest mountain range on land, running down the west of South America?
   Answer: The Andes
11. In which continent are the Alps found? (Africa / Asia / Europe / South America)
   Answer: Europe
12. How does temperature usually change as you climb up a mountain? (It changes every minute / It gets colder / It gets warmer / It stays the same)
   Answer: It gets colder
13. The air gets thinner the higher you climb, so it is harder to breathe.
   Answer: True
14. What is the 'tree line' on a mountain? (The height above which trees cannot grow / The line where snow melts into rivers / The lowest point of a forest / The path walkers follow)
   Answer: The height above which trees cannot grow
15. Name one animal that is adapted to live on high mountains.
   Answer: E.g. llama, snow leopard, yak, mountain goat
16. What is a huge, slow-moving river of ice in a mountain valley called? (A canyon / A glacier / A plateau / An avalanche)
   Answer: A glacier