mountain

     

A mountain is a lanform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area, with a peak. A mountain is generally steeper than a hill, but there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit. Mountains cover 64% of Asia, 36% of North America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of Australia, and 3% of Africa. As a whole, 24% of the Earth's land mass is mountainous. 10% of people live in mountainous regions. Most of the world's rivers are fed from mountain sources, and more than half of humanity depends on mountains for water.

Trivia about mountain

  • Any Scottish one over 3,000' is called a Munro, for the man who made a list of them in 1891
  • In Richard Wilson's 1760s work "Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle", Snowdon is a lofty one of these
  • To Scots, a munro is a tall one of these; that makes Ben Nevis a munro
  • Phoenix, Arizona is in this time zone
  • Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Provo, Utah
  • In Japanese umi is sea or ocean & yama is this
  • In German, berg is this topographical feature on a map
  • El Paso, Texas
  • (Jimmy reports again from the match.) Sumo wretlers take new names, sometimes ending with "kawa", meaning "river", or "yama", which is this appropriate geographical feature

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