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Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a chain of mountains that run more than 3,000 miles from New Mexico to British Columbia in Canada.
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How do you get Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a tick bourne illness. It travels through tick bites and is actually one of the more severe tick bourne diseases.
It can also be spread from people in large crowds or people who aren't clean.
How many people visit the rocky mountains each year?
Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the many National Parks in the United States that has more than 3 million visitors each year. This large number of visitors, combined with decreasing funds, leaves the Park with the challenge of too much to do - and not enough people to do it! Over the years, Rocky Mountain National Park has developed an extensive "Volunteers In Parks" program to supplement the work force at the Park. As one of the largest volunteer programs in the Park Service, RMNP had 1,565 volunteers in Fiscal Year 1997. These volunteers worked a total of 72,321 hours, for a monitary value of approximately $928,000. The volunteers are of all different ages and come from all areas of the country and the world. So what do these volunteers do in the Park? Read below for a description of the many volunteer opportunities available at Rocky Mountain National Park.
What were thoughts that entered in Lewis and Clark's mind when they gazed at the Rocky Mountains?
On May 26th, 1805, Lewis fatigued from climbing over the river hills, described his reaction thus:
"I thought myself well repaid for any labor, as from this point I beheld the Rocky Mountains for the first time. I could only discover a few of the most elevated points above the horizon. These points of the Rocky mountains were covered with snow and the sun shone on it in such manner as to give me the most plain and satisfactory view. While I viewed these mountains I felt a secret pleasure in finding myself so near the head of the heretofore conceived boundless Missouri; but when I reflected on the difficulties which this snowy barrier would most probably throw in my way to the Pacific, and the sufferings and hardships of myself and party in them, it in some measure counterbalanced the joy I felt in the first moments in which I gazed on them. But as I have always held it a crime to anticipate evils I will believe it a good comfortable road until I am compelled to believe differently."
The mountains he was seeing, sadly, were the Bear Paws, and not the Rockies, but the passage in the journals remains a touching one.
What are human characteristics in Rocky Mountains?
Well it's climbable (with safety) and it's viewable.
What is the length of the rocky mountain range in miles?
The Rockies span more than 3,000 miles (4,830 km) from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States.
What are the nine states border the rocky mountain states?
Utah ,Idaho ,Montana ,Wyoming ,Colorado ,Canada ,Washington ,Oregon
What causes mountains to get taller?
They grow taller because the tectonic plates shift upwards and cause them to move slowly taller
They rise taller because the earths tectonic plates are ever shifting, with one shifting underneath its adjacent mate, producing a massive uplift of the mate. This typically results in tidal waves (in recorded history), climate change, and of course, landmass upheaval, producing many of the mountainous ranges we know today.
Considering the very slow process of mountain upheaval, it is doubtful that it would cause any tidal waves.
It is correct however that as tectonic plates collide, mountains can be forced upwards as one plate subducts under another. More typically however is that the mountains rise as the plates collide and the crust buckles upwards. Of course volcanic mountains can grow in size from the deposition of volcanic materials during eruptions.
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Perhaps a geologist or seismologist could join in and give us all a primer on how tectonic plate movement, and the force of friction on geological scales, can unleash massive energy transference, such as to a body of water. Or perhaps not.
Please in the future, read my entire answer, and try to understand the entire context. Or perhaps not.
Why are the Appalachian Mountains shorter than the Rocky Mountains?
The Appalachian Mountains are older and more eroded than the Rocky Mountains.
Compare the Rocky Mountain with Appalachian Mountain?
Okay~ Then///////// Similarity: They are located in the west. Differences: Rocky mountain is sharp, rocky peaks, but the Appalachian mountain is older, lower, then Rockies or Sierra Neveda. Also, Rocky mountain is higher then the Appalachian Mountain.
Do the rocky mountains run along the west coast or east?
The Rocky Mountains are on the west side of the US.
Which part of the ocean floor is part of continuous underwater mountain range that circles earth?
Mid- ocean ridge is the part of the continuous underwater mountain range that circles earth.
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in Northern America (Canada and the US). They are located in the interior of the west.
What is the expansive flat land called between the Rocky Mountains and the mississippi river?
The Great Plains is the huge expanse of flatlands from the Rocky Mountains eastward to the Mississippi River.
How many square miles do the Rocky Mountains cover?
The Rocky Mountains cover an area of approximately 382,894 sq miles (991,691 km²).
Are the Rocky Mountains fold mountains?
No, the rocky mountains were not formed on a destructive plate.
That is wrong, they are fold mountains, they were formed on a weakening in the plate, and millions of years ago the plate was under pressure and then it buckled and the Rockies were formed.
Can you ski in the Rocky Mountains?
Yes. There are cities in the rocky mountains that make money by having tourists come in and ski. The rocky mountains are so tall that the tops of them are in permanently colder weather where there is snow.
What is the huge expanse of flatlands between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississppi River?
The Great Plains is the huge expanse of flatlands from the Rocky Mountains eastward to the Mississippi River.
What is the cure for rocky mountain spotted fever?
by using antibiotics and then go see the doctor if the antibiotics to stop the symptons
Are the Rocky Mountains the main mountain range in the east?
The rocky mountains are the largest of all the mountains
