Cyber Quest

1. Which is the high mountain in England?

Scarfell Pike

2. What are seamounts?

Mountains under the sea

3. What fraction of the world’s landscape are mountains?

1/5

4. Who worked out that Mount Everest was the tallest mountain in the world in 1852?

Radhanath Sikdar

5. Which 4 American Presidents are carved into Mount Rushmore?

Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, and Lincoln

6. Name the 4 different kinds of mountains.

Volcanic, folded, uplifted and domed

7. Where are the Caucasus Mountains?

The Moon

8. How heavy was the largest recorded mountain lion?

227 pounds

9. What is the definition of a volcano?

A volcano is a mountain that opens downward to a pool of molten rock below the surface of the earth.

10. How long did it take Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to climb Mount Everest?

7 weeks