Question: Who says that all high mountains are called Alpes by Celts?
Answer: Maurus Servius Honoratus

Question: What languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp? 
Answer: Celtic languages

Question: There is a theory that in Greek Alpes is a name of what origin? 
Answer: Indo-European origin

Question: What name has been used as a name for a number of mountainous areas across Europe? 
Answer: Albania

Question: Albania was a name for what during Roman Times? 
Answer: the eastern Caucasus

Question: Albania was occasionally used as a name for what in the English language? 
Answer: Scotland

Question: What words are likely to have common origins?
Answer: alb ("white") and albus

Question: Where do Alb and Albus share their origin from?
Answer: the association of the tops of tall mountains or steep hills with snow.

Question: Alb can also mean what? 
Answer: white

Question: The term alp, alm, albe or alpe refers to what in modern languages? 
Answer: a grazing pastures in the alpine regions below the glaciers, not the peaks

Question: What refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months?
Answer: An alp

Question: Words such as horn, kogel, gipfel, spitz, and berd are used in what regions?
Answer: German speaking regions

Question: Mont, pic, dent and aiguille are words used in what regions?
Answer: French speaking regions

Question: What are the crescent shaped geographic feature of central Europe?
Answer: The Alps

Question: What is the mean height of the Alp's peak?
Answer: 2.5 km (1.6 mi)

Question: How far does the Alps range stretch?
Answer: the Mediterranean Sea north above the Po basin, extending through France from Grenoble, eastward through mid and southern Switzerland

Question: Switzerland, France, Austria and Italy have the greatest what? 
Answer: alpine territory

Question: The highest portion of the Alp's range is divided by what? 
Answer: the glacial trough of the Rhone valley

Question: Where are the peaks smaller in the range? 
Answer: the easterly portion

Question: The Bernese Alps are located in what part of the range? 
Answer: northern

Question: What makes the classification of the mountains and subregions difficult?
Answer: The variances in nomenclature

Question: Who came up with the general classification?
Answer: geologist Stefan Schmid

Question: Where is the divide between the Eastern Alps and Western Alps near?
Answer: Splügen Pass

Question: The highest peak of the Western Alps is where? 
Answer: Mont Blanc

Question: How tall is the peak at Mont Blanc? 
Answer: 4,810 m

Question: The highest peak of the Eastern Alps is where?
Answer: Piz Bernina

Question: How tall is the peak of Piz Bernina
Answer: 4,049 metres

Question: Where are the French Prealps located? 
Answer: France

Question: What mountains are located in Switzerland and France?
Answer: the Jura Mountains

Question: What follows the watershed from the Mediterranean Sea to the Wienerwald?
Answer: The secondary chain of the Alps

Question: What heads approximately east-northeast once at the Swiss bored?
Answer: the line of the main chain

Question: What have been crossed for war and commerce? 
Answer: The Alps

Question: What was established during medieval periods by religious orders?
Answer: hospices

Question: Where were hospices established? 
Answer: the summits of many of the main passes

Question: What is the highest of the most important passes of the Alps?
Answer: Col de l'Iseran

Question: What seperates the Otztal Alps and Zillertal Alps?
Answer: the Brenner Pass

Question: How long has the Brenner Pass been used as a trading route? 
Answer: since the 14th century

Question: The lowest of the Alpine passes at what elevation? 
Answer: 985 m (3,232 ft)

Question: Who crossed the Great St. Bernard Pass with 40,000 troops? 
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

Question: Where is the highest point in the alps located? 
Answer: col de l'Iseran in Savoy (France)

Question: Who began studying the rock formations of the Alps
Answer: naturalists

Question: When did the studying of rock formations begin in the Alps?
Answer: the 18th century

Question: What was used in the mid-19th century to explain the presence of "folded" mountain chains? 
Answer: theory of geosynclines

Question: What theory was more widely accepted by the mid-20th century? 
Answer: the theory of plate tectonics

Question: When did the formation of the alps began?
Answer: about 300 million years ago

Question: What did the Pangaean supercontinent consisted of what during the Paleozoic Era?
Answer: a single tectonic plate

Question: When did the single tectonic plate break into separate plates?
Answer: the Mesozoic Era

Question: The Tethys sea developed during what period of time? 
Answer: Jurassic Period

Question: The collision between the African and the Eurasian plates began during what time? 
Answer: the late Cretaceous Period

Question: What was uplifted from extreme compressive stresses and pressure? 
Answer: marine sedimentary rocks

Question: When did the layer of marine flysch sediments get deposited in the foreland basin?
Answer: As the rising peaks underwent erosion

Question: What were later deposited in foreland areas as molasse?
Answer: Coarse sediments

Question: Switzerland and Bavaria saw a further upthrusting of what?
Answer: flysch

Question: What caused the development of the Jura Mountains? 
Answer: a late-stage orogeny

Question: What cause different paleogeographic regions in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods?
Answer: A series of tectonic events

Question: What is another word for rock composition? 
Answer: lithology

Question: What geological subdivision is located in the north?
Answer: Helveticum

Question: What is Stefan Schmid's profession?
Answer: geologist

Question: What happened to the Western Alps during the Cenozoic Era
Answer: a metamorphic event

Question: When did the Austroalpine peaks undergo their event?
Answer: the Cretaceous Period

Question: The Western Alps and the Austroalpine peaks show distinct differences in what?
Answer: nappe formations

Question: When did Flysch deposits probably occur in the Southern Alps of Lombardy?
Answer: Cretaceous

Question: What area do peaks in France, Italy, and Switzerland lie in? 
Answer: Houillière zone

Question: What are more common in the Western Alps?
Answer: High "massifs"

Question: When compared to the Western Alps, what area has few high peaked massifs?
Answer: Eastern Alps

Question: Layers of rock from Europe, Africa and the ocean make up what?
Answer: the structure of the Alps

Question: What is the origin of the bottom nappe structure? 
Answer: continental Europe

Question: Where are the top of the nappes derived from? 
Answer: the African plate

Question: What is an example of the ongoing orogeny?
Answer: The Matterhorn

Question: What happened to the Alpine orogenic belt that gave it the steep vertical peak?
Answer: folded and fractured

Question: Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and peaks in the Pennine Alps cosist of what?
Answer: layers of rock from the various orogenies

Question: What are the common characteristics of the Alpine Orogenic Belt?
Answer: steep vertical peaks

Question: What group defined a list of 82 official Apline summits that reach 4,000m?
Answer: Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA)

Question: What is included in the list of 82 official Apline summits other than Mountains?
Answer: subpeaks with little prominence that are considered important mountaineering objectives

Question: The list of twenty two summits has summits with at least how much prominence?
Answer: 500 m (1,640 ft)

Question: When was Mont Blanc first climbed?
Answer: 1786

Question: When were most of the Alpine fourthousanders climber?
Answer: first half of the 19th century

Question: When was the ascent of the Matterhorn?
Answer: 1865

Question: What did the ascent of the Matterhorn mark?
Answer: the end of the golden age of alpinism