Mountains of the World map quiz
Major mountain ranges across all continents
Quizzes in this pack
Mountains of the World: mountains.
| Mountains | 68 questions |
Sample questions
- In upstate New York, a dome of ancient rocks within a vast state park
- Answer: Adirondack Mountains
- In southeastern Australia, the highest section of the Great Dividing Range
- Answer: Australian Alps
- Discontinuous range along India's southeastern coast
- Answer: Eastern Ghats
- Along the coast of Lebanon, known for the ancient cedars of Lebanon
- Answer: Lebanon Mountains
- Mexico's western mountain range, parallel to the Pacific coast
- Answer: Sierra Madre Occidental
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Adirondack Mountains
Upstate New York, USA
The Adirondacks are a dome of ancient rock in northern New York State, covered in forest and thousands of lakes. They lie inside Adirondack Park, which is larger than several US states, and Lake Placid has hosted the Winter Olympics twice.
- Highest point
- Mount Marcy, 1,629 m
- Did you know?
- The dome is still slowly rising, by a few millimetres a year
- Rings a bell?
- At the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, a young US ice hockey team beat the Soviet Union, the Miracle on Ice
Ardennes
Belgium, Luxembourg and northern France
The Ardennes are a forested upland of hills and deep river valleys across southern Belgium, Luxembourg and a corner of France. Rivers such as the Semois wind in tight loops through the forest, and old castles stand above the valleys.
- Highest point
- Signal de Botrange, 694 m
- Did you know?
- In the winter of 1944–45 the Battle of the Bulge, one of the largest battles of the Second World War on the Western Front, was fought here
Coast Mountains
Along the coast of British Columbia
The Coast Mountains run about 1,600 km along the Pacific coast of British Columbia into southeastern Alaska. Huge ice fields cover their tops, and deep fjords reach far inland between them.
- Highest point
- Mount Waddington, 4,019 m
- Did you know?
- The rainforests on their seaward side are home to the white Kermode bear, a black bear with white fur
Hejaz Mountains
Western Saudi Arabia, along the Red Sea
The Hejaz Mountains run along the Red Sea coast of western Saudi Arabia, between the narrow coastal plain and the plateau inland. Mecca and Medina lie in this region, and in the south, around Al Baha and Taif, the slopes are cooler and green, with old stone villages such as Dhi Ayn built on the rock.
- Known for
- Mecca and Medina, Taif, stone villages
- Did you know?
- Taif in the Hejaz Mountains is famous for its roses, which are pressed into rose oil
Pyrenees
Between France and Spain
The Pyrenees stretch about 430 km from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean and form the border between France and Spain, with Andorra in between. On the French side the Cirque de Gavarnie is a giant wall of rock with one of the highest waterfalls in Europe (about 420 metres high).
- Highest point
- Aneto, 3,404 m
- Did you know?
- Basque, a language not related to any other in the world, is spoken at the western end of the Pyrenees
Southern Alps
South Island, New Zealand
The Southern Alps run about 500 km down the South Island of New Zealand. They are still rising along the Alpine Fault, and glaciers flow from them almost to the rainforest on the west coast. Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand.
- Highest point
- Aoraki / Mount Cook, 3,724 m
- Did you know?
- Edmund Hillary trained on Aoraki / Mount Cook before he climbed Everest
- Rings a bell?
- Many scenes of The Lord of the Rings were filmed among these mountains
How it works
Pick a quiz, then find, name or choose your answer on the 3D globe. A round has 10 questions by default, or more, up to the whole quiz. Each round picks what you need most: questions due again, new ones and the places you tend to mix up. In a short round, the questions you miss are asked once more at the end. Spaced repetition then brings them back on later days until you know them.
Every round also fills your mastery badges for the continent or country, the topic and the whole world: bronze at 50%, silver at 80% and gold at 100%.
