What name are the offshoots of the eastern Himalayas known?
What did the Himalayas protect China from?
Theoritically from Pakistan and India. But do the Chinese are afraid of India and Pakistan (from war)?
Are the Himalayas younger than the Pangaea?
The Himalayan mountains are older than the Appalachian mountains.
What is the climate of the Himalayas?
There would be monsoons, floods, high winds, and snowstorms. And the higher the elevation the more snow there would be and the lower the elevation the wetter it would be due to altitude a temperatures. The temperature in summer is about 15 degrees centigrade and in winter it is very cold.
Weather at Himalayas is always a special treat for the tourist or people who come to them. In simple words we can say that summers are too hot and winters are too cold.
its cold all the time at night its very hot
What 3 countries does the Himalayas run through?
Mount Everest can be found on the border of Nepal and Tibet in the Himalayan mountains
How many kilometres is the Himalayas?
The Himalaya Mountains cover around 600 miles of land.
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What makes the Himalayas unique?
The Himalayas contain the tallest mountain in the world: Mount Everest. Also, it divides up Asia and it's sub continent (India). The Himalayas were formed when two tectonic plates collided into each other.
What is the shape of the Himalayas?
pretty mountains in the nepalion range these are very cool moutains
Totally 6 mountain ranges are there,from West to East as follows: *Karakoram range
*Ladakh Range
*Zaskar Range
*Pir panjal Range
*Dhuola Dhar Range
*Mahabharat Range
How long is the mountain ranges the Himalayas and the Andes?
The Andes is the longest continental mountain range in the world. The Andes range is about 7,000 km (4,300 miles) long, about 200 km (120 miles) to 700 km (430 miles) wide (widest between 18° south and 20° south latitude), and of an average height of about 4,000 metres (13,000 feet).
The himalaya mountains contain many of these faults?
You would find a combination of strike-slip and thrust faults. This is what gives the mountain range the jagged look.
How the great Himalayas were formed?
The Himalayas were formed through a process of Convergent Plate Boundaries colliding together. The Indo-Australian and Eurasian plate collided together, to be specific.
What was the Himalayas lowest temperature?
The temperature at the summit of Mount Everest never rises above freezing, averaging -32F (-36C) in winter and -2F (-19C) in summer. The wind chill, sometimes blowing a gale at an hundred miles per hour will make it feel very much colder too.
What mountain range forms the borders between India and china?
The mountain chain that forms a barrier between India and Tibet is the Himalayas. The highest point of the Himalayas is Mount Everest.
How have the Himalayas affected the development of culture?
The himalayas affect development of culture in south and east Asia by being protection. Most people would not dare cross the mountains to attack the civilizations on the other side. This is just a guess so I would double check but it seems pretty logical to me.:)
What type of plate collision is producing the Himalayas?
The Himalayas are found at a convergent plate boundary also known as a subduction zone where one plate slips under the other driving the land mass up.
How are the Himalayas and the Alps alike?
The Andes, Himalayas, Appalachian mountains are similar because they are all mountain ranges.
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What from of plate tectonic movement formed the Himalayas?
The Himalayas were formed by the collision of the Eurasian plate (continental) and the Indo-Australian plate (continental).