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What is a land mass with a higher elevation but smaller than mountains?
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What is the different of a Valley and plateau?
A valley is a drop in elevation almost concave like in between mountains or plateaus. a plateau is a flat grassy land that has high elevation.
What is a lowland area between higher land such as mountains?
A Valley
A land from with high elevation and a pointed or rounded top higher than a hill?
Mountain.
Does Alaska or Florida have higher elevation?
Alaska! It has more mountains in the north. Florida has a flat land Yeah... Alaska has the highest peak in the nation, Mt. McKinley (Mt. Denali). Florida's highest point is only 345 feet at Lakewood, FL in north Walton County!
Changes in elevation that occur over a given area or land?
Changes in elevation over a given area of land
What is a landforms that has high elevation and a mostly flat surface?
the rocky mountains have high relief and high elevation
How do index contours let you know if the land you are viewing are increasing or decreasing?
Each index contour has an elevation associated with it. When you look at 2 contours, one will have a higher corresponding elevation. As you go from the lower elevation to the higher elevation, you know that the land is increasing in the direction toward the higher elevation. From the higher to the lower elevation, the land is decreasing (sloping downward, decreasing in elevation).
Is land elevation highest in the eastern or western US?
The Rocky Mountains are much higher than the Appalachians/Adirondacks, so the west would in general be higher. The coastlines are all pretty much the same elevation though.
Does Florida or Texas have higher land elevation?
texas
Does Idaho or Alabama have higher land elevation?
Idaho
Is is true that the mountains under the sea level are higher than mountains on dry land?
The mountains under sea are slightly smaller than the mountains on land. It is possible though that a mountain under sea is the same size or a little bigger though that case stays rare.
What kind of land has very flat land low elevation and has different kinds of wetlands?
Appalachian mountains
Why is there space between mountains?
A mountain is something that is higher than the rest of the land. You can't be "higher than the rest of the land" unless there is lower land to be higher than. If there were no space between mountains, then all land would be at the altitude of the top of the mountains, and it would all be flat, and there would be no mountains.
Which state has higher elevation Colorado or Mississippi?
Which one do you believe has more mountains? Which state do people snow ski in the winter? Snow usually falls on higher elevations. Mississippi often floods during heavy rain storms do to some low land. Do you think that maybe Colorado might have a higher elevation?
What term means the shape or height of the land?
relief means the height and shape of land e.g mountains.
What does the geographical term elevation mean?
"Elevation" refers to the height of the land above or below sea-level. For example, mountains generally have a high elevation. Coastal regions generally have a low elevation.
What is a land mass with a high elevation that is often jagged and rocky or covered in tree or snow?
Mountains
