Mt. Everest Glossary Quiz

What is the gradual process whereby the body adapts to functioning at lower air pressures found at high altitudes?

• Altitude

• Acclimation

• Base Camp

• Frostbite

What is the term for height above sea level?

• Altitude

• Acclimation

• Col

• Glacier

Illness climbers can get when they climb above 10,000 feet is called ______.

• Frostbite

• Altitude Sickness

• Crevasse

• Cornice

A member of the religion that adheres to the teachings of Buddha is called a ______.

• Buddhist

• Carabiner

• Cwm

• Col

An overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a ridge is known as a ______.

• Cornice

• Cwm

• Crevasse

• Glacier

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CCSS.RI.6.4

What is the life-threatening medical condition brought on by climbing too high or too quickly?

• Hypothermia

• HACE, HAPE

• Icefall

• Summit

Hypothermia is the condition of having a body temperature substantially ______.

• A) above normal

• B) below normal

• C) at normal

• D) fluctuating

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

An Ice Pick is a tool used for ______ ice or securing oneself while climbing over ice.

• melting

• chopping

• painting

• measuring

Lhotse is a mountain just south of which famous peak?

• K2

• Everest

• Kilimanjaro

• Denali

A Petzl Ascender is a mechanical device that climbers attach to a ______.

• rope

• ice pick

• oxygen tank

• summit