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One guy stands at the bottom holding a really long tape measure and the other guy holds the other end and climbs up mountain. When he reaches the top he yells down the mountain saying how tall it is.
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Describe how the various mountains are categorized?
The various mountains are categorized as Fold Mountains, Fault-block Mountains, Dome Mountains, and Plateau Mountains.
Names of 3 Fold Mountains?
Rocky Mountains, Andes Mountains, Alps, Himalayan Mountains, Appalachian Mountains
What are the five basic mountains?
1. Folded Mountains 2. Block Mountains 3. Dome Mountains 4. Volcanic Mountains 5. Plateau Mountains
What is the collective name for a group of mountains?
The collective nouns for mountains are a chain of mountains or a range of mountains.
The oldest mountains on the continent?
Appalachian mountains
What are mountains and valleys measured from?
The Montains And Valleys Are Measured By Ears
How is the height of a mountains measured?
very carefully
What are mountains measured from?
They are measured by how far above the ocean they are. The ocean is called "sea level". Sea level is 0.
What are the tallest mountains in Africa measured in feet?
, Kilimanjaro is the tallest at 19,341feet/5895neters. =)
Why do mountains on the moon look brighter than the smooth seas?
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.
Why aren't the Hawaiian islands considerded the tallest mountains on earth?
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.
What is measured with numbers?
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.
How tall is mountain?
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.
What is Antarctica's longest mountain?
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.
Current wind chill on the equator?
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.
How many feet is the tallest mountain?
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
How mount Everest is measured in heights in picture form or diagram from bottom to the top?
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.
