Mountains of the world

Worksheet: Mountains of the world

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Answer the questions.

1. Which movement of Earth's crust forms many fold mountains?
   a) Heavy rain filling a lakeb) Rivers carrying soil awayc) Two plates pushing togetherd) Wind blowing sand into piles
2. Fold mountains form when rivers dig deep valleys into flat land.
   a) Trueb) False
3. What is a volcanic mountain built from?
   a) Folded layers of sand onlyb) Ice from glaciersc) Lava and ash from eruptionsd) Soil washed down by rain
4. What name do we give to the huge slow-moving pieces of Earth's crust?
5. Which mountain is the highest in the world above sea level?
   a) Aconcaguab) Mont Blancc) Mount Everestd) Mount Kilimanjaro
6. Which is the highest mountain in Africa?
   a) Denalib) Mont Blancc) Mount Kenyad) Mount Kilimanjaro
7. Aconcagua is the highest mountain on which continent?
   a) Africab) Australiac) North Americad) South America
8. Denali is the highest mountain in North America.
   a) Trueb) False
9. Which mountain range includes Mount Everest?
   a) The Alpsb) The Andesc) The Himalayasd) The Rocky Mountains
10. Which is the longest mountain range on land, running down the west of South America?
11. In which continent are the Alps found?
    a) Africab) Asiac) Europed) South America
12. How does temperature usually change as you climb up a mountain?
    a) It changes every minuteb) It gets colderc) It gets warmerd) It stays the same
13. The air gets thinner the higher you climb, so it is harder to breathe.
    a) Trueb) False
14. What is the 'tree line' on a mountain?
    a) The height above which trees cannot growb) The line where snow melts into riversc) The lowest point of a forestd) The path walkers follow
15. Name one animal that is adapted to live on high mountains.
16. What is a huge, slow-moving river of ice in a mountain valley called?
    a) A canyonb) A glacierc) A plateaud) An avalanche