Mountain Ranges

Question: Which mountain range is not part of the Pacific Ring of Fire?

Answer: The Pacific Ring of Fire follows chains of island arcs in the Western Pacific and the western coast of North America and the Andes Mountains, along the Eastern Pacific. The Himalayas are located far from the Pacific coast in Asia.

Question: Which mountain range can boast more than 110 peaks with elevations of 24,000 feet (7,300 meters) or more above sea level?

Answer: The Himalayas separate the vast Plateau of Tibet from the Indian subcontinent. Formed by the ongoing collision of India with southern Asia, these mountains continue to rise.

Question: Mount Ras Dejen rises to nearly 15,000 feet in which African mountain range?

Answer: Mount Ras Dejen is Ethiopia’s highest peak.

Question: Which mountain range extends from the Grampians to the Cape York Peninsula?

Answer: The Great Dividing Range runs some 2,300 miles (3,700 km) along Australia’s eastern shore.

Question: Which mountain range marks the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia?

Answer: The Urals extend some 1,550 miles (2,500 km) north to south in west-central Russia.

Question: Which continent hosts the Atlas Mountains?

Answer: The Atlas Mountains run generally southwest to northeast across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.

Question: The highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere are found in which mountain range?

Answer: Two of the tallest peaks on the continent are Mount Aconcagua (22,831 feet [6,959 meters]) and Mount Huascarán (22,025 feet [6,768 meters]).

Question: Which Alpine mountain is taller than the others?

Answer: Mount Blanc is the highest peak in the Alps, standing 15,771 feet (4,807 meters) tall.

Question: Which mountain is the smallest of the peaks listed below?

Answer: Mount Kosciuszko rises to 7,310 feet (2,228 meters); the others in this list have heights in excess of 14,000 feet.

Question: Which mountain is 28,251 feet (8,611 meters) high?

Answer: K2 is second only to Mount Everest in height.