Geography and Nature
Mountains, Rivers, Lakes and Nature
36 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.
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Random questions from this topic, one at a time. You see the answer and the explanation straight after each one.
All 36 questions
- What is the highest mountain in Switzerland?
- Which famous pyramid-shaped mountain rises above the town of Zermatt?
- Which countries border Switzerland?
- What is the largest city in Switzerland by population?
- Which three landscape regions make up Switzerland?
- Which river flows through Basel and then on to the North Sea?
- Which lake lies on the border between Switzerland and France, with the cities of Geneva and Lausanne on its shore?
- Which mountain range covers much of the south of Switzerland?
- Which canton is the largest by area?
- Which Alpine animal, whose male has long, ridged, curved horns, lives on steep rocky slopes?
- Which small white flower with woolly petals is a well-known symbol of the Alps?
- On which river does the capital Bern lie, in a loop of the river?
- Which glacier is the longest in the Alps?
- Which is the largest lake wholly inside Switzerland?
- Which river rises from a glacier in Valais, passes through Lake Geneva and flows to the Mediterranean Sea?
- Which river rises in the Swiss Engadine and flows to the Black Sea by way of the Danube?
- What is the name of the only national park in Switzerland, founded in 1914 in the canton of Graubünden?
- Which town in Graubünden is known as a winter-sports resort in the Engadine?
- Which is the capital of the canton of Ticino?
- What is the lowest point in Switzerland, at Lake Maggiore?
- What is the name of the Alpine wind that brings warm, dry air on the northern side of the Alps?
- Which dog breed is named after a pass and hospice in the Alps?
- Which lake lies between Switzerland, Germany and Austria?
- What is the highest railway station in Europe, reached by the Jungfrau Railway?
- Which river flows through the city of Zurich from the Lake of Zurich?
- Which low mountain range of limestone lies along the border with France in north-western Switzerland?
- Why is Switzerland sometimes called the 'water tower of Europe'?
- Which list shows rivers in the correct order of the seas they finally reach: Rhine, Rhône, Inn?
- Which statement about the Swiss climate is correct?
- Which three Swiss cities are listed from the northernmost to the southernmost?
- What is the main reason glaciers in the Alps have been shrinking?
- Which statement about the Swiss National Park is correct?
- Which Alpine railway line opened in 1882 with a tunnel that was then the longest in the world?
- Which statement describes the Rhine at Basel?
- Which Swiss lake lies in the canton of Ticino and partly in Italy, with a city of the same name?
- Which pass in the Alps carries the road and rail links between central Switzerland and Ticino?