mountains/eqs

Mountains

Physical charecteristics

• Cold- air cools 0.6 deg/ 100m
• Lots of precipitation- air= high/cool tf condense
• Formed on destructive plate boundaries.
• Windward: heavy rain forced up/conense
• Leeward: Little rain- dry

Formation of fold mountains

• Destructive/collision

Uses

• Hep
• Astronomy
• Adventure tourism
• inhabitants=close to glacier

Tourism

• P
• Money to locals
• 6mn -economy
• N
• Seasonal jobs
• inflate propterty value
• erodes landscape

Problems with mountains

• Extreme cold
• EQ's due to boundary - 8.8 27 feb 2010- 525 killed+ up to 30bn damge
• Isolated/hard to acces
• lnadlside0 after earthquakes weakened

Avalaunches

• Avalaunches- Slopes of angle 30-45 deg
• caused by light snow then heavy snow- compacted
• …