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Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains is a mountain range in Asia that separates the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. Together, the Himalayan mountain system is the highest in the planet and is home to the highest peaks in the world, the eight-thousanders including K2 and Mount Everest.
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Where are the Himalayan Mountains?
First of all, it's Himalaya, not Himalayan. This is a very common mistake. The correct context for "Himalayan" would be in the following sentence, "What is the tallest Himalayan mountain?"
To answer the question: the Himalaya Mountains are fold mountains, which happens when two plates of the earth's crust collide with each other (in this case the Indian plate collided with the Asian plate) and literally fold the earth's crust. And that is why Mount Everest is still growing a few millimeters every year.
A range of mountians, containing Mt. Everest, located in Asia.
How many people visit the Himalayas mountains?
The use of the Himalayas is to look at one of the most beautiful mountains in Asia. It is also used to do skiing, snowboarding and also to hike the mountain
Why there is snow fall on Himalayas?
I believe that the reason they are covered with snow is because of how high the elevation they have.
How is the name 'Himalaya' derived?
Mount Everest was discovered by a man named Sir George Everest, which is where it gets its name from.
People In Nepal call the Mount Everest "Sagarmatha" and people in Tibet call the mountain Chomolangma or Qomolangma
How are Himalayas useful to us?
The Himalayas are so important because they are almost like a barrier for India. the protect India from the rainfalls and provide the country witha lot of useful sources.
The Himalayas are important to the Hindus because they are protecting the country in many ways, e.g:protecting from the floods.
What is the width of the Himalayas?
Lifted by the collision of the Indian tectonic plate with the Eurasian Plate, the Himalayan range runs north west to south east in a 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) long arc. The range varies in width from 400 kilometres (250 mi) in the west to 150 kilometres (93 mi) in the east.
Do people climb the Himalayas?
Mountaineers climb and walk on Mount Everest. Most of the route is hard walking up steep slopes. There are some sections where the climber will need to climb over and up rocks or boulders.
What are the effects of the Himalayas?
Seeing as the Himalayas are a very wide, elephantine mountain range in between India and Nepal, day to day life is changed. You can't go through a mountain, can you? No. Seeing as climbing mountains in this mountain range has proved extremely difficult, you must find a way around them. This was more important back in the days of simple transportation (no airplanes!), but many villagers living around these mountains have to find ways to hunt the indigenous animals and live in that environment. Think: big rock. Little human. Huh.
What is the importance of the Himalayas to India?
For many reasons:
a. source of water, rivers, forests, oxygen
b. natural harbour of eco systems
c. habitat for a large number of Indians
d. strategically protects from China
Which is the tallest mountain in India after Kanchanjunga?
k2=8611m
kanchenjunga=8598m
so k2 is the highest peak in india
Shangri-La is a place described in the fictional book Lost Horizon by James Hilton. The British author created a mystical and utopian valley led by the gentle lamasery and located it the western part of the Kunlun Mountains near China.
How did the Himalayas help create deserts in central Asia?
Frequently mountain ranges will block the flow of moisture laden air off an ocean from crossing into the interior of a continent. The moisture is forced upward by the mountains where it condenses and falls as rain or snow on the windward side of the mountains leaving a rain shadow desert on the leeward side. See the image above.
What geographic feature separates the Indian subcontinent from the rest of Asia?
Indian Ocean is the geographical barrier between India and Africa .
What are the disadvantages of living near a volcano?
When the volcano erupts it can do many things such as:
-Kill people
-Destroy crops and plantation
-Suffocate people from the ashes
Take Pompeii for example. When the volcano near Pompeii exploded, no one had had any idea that would happen! So therefore, when it did, no one was prepared for it. After the eruption, the city was covered in mud and ash. Scientists only found the bodies and remains of/in the city years and years later.
The ash from a volcano can suffocate people and the lava can burn people.
Volcanoes can also cause earthquakes.
But, volcanoes do provide a lot of good things, such as Geothermal heat, nutrients (from the ashes) that are good for the ground, and tourism. It is also beautiful to watch a volcano to explode from a distance away.
But is the earthquakes is very bad ? yes it is because is people how now when earthquakes start but lots of people go to die because earthquakes and lavas is very strong
By Em Cooper
What is the present Height of Himalayas Mountain?
The Hindu Kush is am 500 mile mountain range that stretches between central Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. The highest point in the Hindu Kush is Tirich Mir (7,708 m or 25,289 ft) in the Chitral region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
How did the Himalaya's affect India's history?
One of the ways that the Himalayan Mountains help India is that for centuries they have acted as a effective natural barrier against any invading armies for Asia. The Himalayans are extremely difficult to cross, even in the summer when the snow has melted.
The Himalayans also provide a great barrier against the harsh winter winds of Central Asia, and keeps the rain laden winds of the Indian ocean in India, turning into a fertile land.
