Mountains, Volcanoes & Deserts - Quiz Questions with Answers

1. Which African peak is kwon as “The Mountain of the Cold Devils”?
2. Mount Blanc lies within the territories of which three countries?
3. Which range of mountains in Africa takes its name from a mythological character condemned to support the universe on his shoulders?
4. Two continents are separated by one range of mountains; Name the continents and the mountains.
5. Where are these?
   (a) Atacama Desert
   (b) Thar Desert
6. Where are the following volcanoes:
   (a) Cotopaxi
   (b) Kerentji
   (c) Mt. Meru
7. Where the name of the ‘two largest Passes through the Austrian Alps’.
8. (a) Name the great desert between China and Mongolia;
   (b) Name the two largest deserts in Africa, one being in the north and the other in the south.
9. Which mountains form the ‘backbone of the Italian Peninsula’?
10. What is the name of the famous active volcano on the Island of Sicily?
11. Which mountains are the backbone of:
    (a) North America
    (b) South America
12. Where are the following mountains?
    (a) The Pennines
    (b) Popocatepetl
13. In which range of mountains is Everest?
14. On which of the Italian Lipari Islands is there a famous volcano?
15. What well-known mountain range in turkey is also the name of a sign of the Zodiac?
16. Where is
    (a) Mt. Egmont
    (b) Mt. Erebus
17. In which mountains do the following rivers are?
    (a) The Amazon
    (b) The Porise
18. All continents have deserts except one, which continent?
19. Where the following mountain ranges are?
    (a) K-2 Mt. Godwin Austen
    (b) Fujiyama
20. Which is the longest mountain range in the world?

Answers

1. Mount Kilimanjaro
2. France, Switzerland and Italy
3. The Atlas Mountains
4. Europe and Asia; the Ural Mountains
5. (a) Chile
   (b) India
6. (a) Ecuador
   (b) Sumatra
   (c) Tanzania
7. Brenner and Semmering
8. (a) The Gobi Desert
   (b) (i) Sahara (North), (ii) Kalahari (South)
9. The Apennines
10. Etna (the highest volcano in Europe)
11. (a) The Rockies
    (b) The Andes
12. (a) England
    (b) Mexico
13. The Himalayas
14. Stromboli
15. Taurus
16. (a) North Island, New Zealand
    (b) Ross Island, Antarctica
17. (a) Andes
    (b) French Alps
18. Europe
19. (a) Karakoram
    (b) Japan
20. The Andes in South America is the longest mountain range – 15,000 miles long.

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