They are measured by how far above the ocean they are. The ocean is called "sea level". Sea level is 0.
The Montains And Valleys Are Measured By Ears
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, Kilimanjaro is the tallest at 19,341feet/5895neters. =)
Seas are measured in depth, and they are deep and dark. Mountains are measured in height, and usually reflect attracted light, especially because the whitish color of the moon's surface reflects light so well.
The Hawaiian Island do not have the tallest mountains on earth. Our volcanoes would bee the tallest if it were measured from the base instead of sea level.
Anything and everything can be measured using numbers: distance between places, height of mountains or a flag pole, number of articles or people in a crowd, and so on, the list is very long.
Mountains are commonly measured by their height above mean sea level. Some mountains (like Mount Everest) actually rise from an elevated plateau and climbers do not start at sea level when climbing them. Others (on volcanic islands like Hawaii's Mauna Kea) extend from ocean floor bases thousands of feet below the surface. Generally, only undersea mountains, those that are completely submerged, are measured from base to summit.
Wind chill would not be measured on the equator because it's too hot. It is generally only measured for temperatures below 45 degrees F. Only the highest mountains would get anywhere close to this.
Mountains are not usually measured in length. Mountain ranges, however, are measured this way. You may be thinking of the Trans-Antarctic mountain range, which measures about 3,500 Km in length, and is one of the longest mountain ranges on earth.
Mountains are nornmally measured from sea level, thus Mount Everest is the tallest at 29,035 feet. However if you measured from a base below sea level, Mauna Kea is taller that Everest by 4436 feet
We cannot (yet) display diagrams or pictures, however mountains are usually measured using trigonometry. Which is a system in mathematics used to calculate the lengths and angles in a triangle without physically measuring them.
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